Cinematic

An action-packed supernatural thriller that addresses questions of life, love and belief against an apocalyptic backdrop. A group of close friends gather for a wedding, but the celebration is shattered by a series of cataclysmic events and enemies foretold by biblical end-times prophecies. The survivors face a horrifying, uncertain future as they scramble for safety, but as their world collapses around them in chaos and terror will they choose real...

BLACK STORIES is a collection of films from the University of Southern California Cinematic Arts.

The year is 1933 and a young boy in Tokyo named Uchido has recently moved from the country and attends his first day of school. The class is run in a traditional and strict manner that is designed to teach the children to conform to a strict code of social behavior that includes expressing loyalty to the Emperor. Uchido runs afoul of this intention when he answers the teacher's question by expressing his love for bean cakes instead of the emperor....

Homeboy Industries, the world's largest gang intervention and re-entry organization, offers an unparalleled 18-month job-training program for recovering drug addicts and ex-gang members. The short documentary HOMEGIRLS intimately follows the lives of two of the programs' female participants, Maria and Joselyn, over four months as they attempt to leave the past behind and start anew.. Through cinéma vérité filmmaking, our complex subjects face...

In this short student film by **Oscar-winning** director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump), a man goes through his daily routine until he meets unexpected stress when an elevator won't obey his commands.

Once a successful Syrian actor, Jihad Abdo has now arrived in Hollywood as a refugee and struggles to reinvent his life and renew his career.. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the Kuwait Int'l Film Festival.

Izzy is hesitant about reconnecting with a formerly close friend and in her dreams she explores their relationship to find and answer.

A modern, children's fable about Maria, a smart, determined 10-year-old girl, who loves nothing more than her father and his bedtime tales. On the night her father goes missing, Maria, along with her little brother Juan, embark on a journey across the U.S. / Mexico border in hopes of bringing him back home, but not without the guidance of three curious, yet meddling desert creatures. When dream-world meets reality, Maria and Juan are picked up by...

At the beginning of the dream, Nadine is handed a picture of herself playing the violin. Stanley, a man in clunky glasses who accompanies Nadine through her dream, demands a performance, and a chorus of suited men on the other side of a wall of windows stare at her expectantly. Throughout the dream, Stanley repeatedly nags Nadine about not cheating. Nadine finds herself in a kitchen, mixing flour and other ingredients in a bowl. She stops before dumping...

Directed by Oscar nominee and film legend George Lucas (*American Graffiti, Star Wars*) ELECTRONIC LABYRINTH shows us a world that is run by electronics and people are categorized by number and assigned mates for life. One man, numbered THX 1138 4EB, decides he must try to escape. Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board**.