University of North Carolina School of the Arts

After a deadly car accident, a boy finds himself trapped in a sinister hospital and begins to wonder if he could be more than human.

A down-and-out comedian finds unexpected success at a bizarre comedy club only to squander it all over one night.

A single mother must ready her apartment overnight for a morning CPS inspection, while fighting her addiction and the temptations of a mysterious drug dealer.

In DEAD PERIOD, lifelong friends Caleb, an African American, and Duarte, a Latino, discover they're vying for the same college basketball scholarship. Their bond fractures as they face off, reflecting the plight of Dreamers – immigrants raised with uncertain legal status – in the contemporary U.S. American society.

A character piece between a widower and his teenage daughter, as the father realizes his tomboy child is becoming a young woman.

How does mobility reflect social status and racism? A story of two African American women working to provide and improve mobility in their community, as they tell the history of the Safe Bus - formerly the biggest black-owned transportation system in the world.

Led by Dylan Arnold (Oppenheimer, Halloween, Halloween Kills, Netflix's You), premiering at Cannes Court Métrage and landing its creators on Variety Magazine's "Students to Watch" list, Helpless comments on the high stakes of violence in America.

Austin, a lifeguard at an indoor pool, has a crush on Jessica, his co-worker. So to impress her, he pays young children to pretend they're drowning so he can "save them." Until one day, a little fireball named Ryder decides that he has plans of his own. He's going to fake drown so Jessica can save him, and he can get some mouth to mouth action with her and steal her away from Austin forever!

A Heart replaced; A Heart gained, Galahad returns to scorch’d planes, His warlike spirit becomes repressed, From the new heart within his chest. Why does he bake instead of fight? The answer lies in a best friend’s spite.

Set in the Oklahoma territory in the early 1900s, this musical tells the story of two pairs of lovers. Curly is a cowboy who has trouble admitting his feelings to Laurey, as she does to him, because of their stubbornness. Judd, the hired hand at Laurey's farm, tries to come between them. Ado Annie is torn between Will, a cowboy who has strong feelings for her, and Ali Hakim, a peddler who's a ladies' man and doesn't want to marry her. The University of North Carolina School of the Arts' production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, staged in early 2011, uses the original 1943 set and costume designs, dance choreography, and orchestrations.

A park ranger is led down a path of hope and grief in the same woods where her daughter went missing.

Short film made in 1997 while David Gordon Green was attending the North Carolina School of Arts that formed the genesis of his feature film debut, "George Washington".

A cargo-ship-piloting alien is on his usual livestock abduction route when an angry farmer sneaks aboard the ship disguised as a cow, with a burning desire for vengeance.

At a tense funeral after party, a pained spiritual healer must confront unresolved family drama and supernatural revelations with the children of her now-deceased partner.

Three unlikely individuals attempt to escape the dark prison known as "The Void."

In the southern United States, two young women meet by chance in the back of a police car and, without saying a word, experience the injustice hovering above them.

After moving into a new house, a man comes into contact with a dark primordial creature.

Two teenagers push the boundaries of their friendship while they explore an abandoned farmhouse together.

A married couple of photographers in the late 1800s ascend the Andes Mountains in search of an elusive planetary phenomenon, only to find their equipment and ties to one another are vanishing from existence.

Angus, a lonely grocery store worker, finds an unlikely friend in a lobster after working a long night shift.