Saro Varjabedian

Two stages of a Dominican-American's life; first as a boy trying to bond with his young mother, then a 21-year-old looking for love in New York City.

Ex-con turned "scrapper" Jake leads a quiet life caring for his family until he is pursued by violent Punjabi and Mexican criminals following a botched robbery.

Down and out private-eye Jimmy Baz reluctantly takes on a case to find a missing college student when dead bodies of Muslim men start turning up leading him to believe he is now searching for a serial killer.

A week before his First Communion, Youssef, a ten-year-old Maronite boy, discovers masturbation and with it, the concept of sin. He tries to negotiate his own deal with God while pressure mounts on him from all directions: his mother, brother, and the parish priest.

In a technological utopia, a man and woman depend on artificial means to determine their love for each other.

Lucky, an undocumented immigrant, struggles to make his way in New York but finds himself caught in a web of crime and murder, forcing him to take extreme action.

A travel agent who has never travelled is sent on a business trip to Paris, only to find himself confronted by temptations he cannot handle.

A drama set in a small rural town in Lebanon about Yvette who is past 30, unmarried, devoutly religious and still living with her parents. Today, she is preparing to go to a retreat. It's a dream come true for her. However, as the bus approaches, a fight breaks out between her parents. She tries to intercede, but her father's rage is overwhelming. Is she able to calm her father and go to the trip? How far would you go to protect your mother?

A New York gay professor is haunted and lost. A tale of cultural politics in dystopian scenario that is relevant to today's social climate, commenting on meanings attached to gender, phobia, and trauma.

Set in Armenia, The Frame is a story about an old, stubborn Armenian man, living in a village and fighting a sickness. He needs help, but that's not if you ask him. He thinks that he is very well capable of taking care of himself and he refuses to bring his only daughter into this and keeps this as a secret from her, until the day he realizes that his condition is getting worse. The day the daughter visits, he is set to tell her everything, but she brings her own secret to the table, forcing him to make a very hard decision.

From New York's unsuspecting Long Island community to a dark decrepit hospital in Hungary, Davin Cortes searches for the truth behind his father's bizarre past. He unveils a debauched world of perverse bliss and sexual terror depicted in a gore fest of horrid videos found in the archives of his father's hidden lair. He gathers the possibility that his father may have been a Long Island serial killer with a trail of death submersed in the bloodletting of an unbeknownst cultic network of serial killers. Davin finds that the mystery of his father's past is vividly detailed behind the lips of a hard hearted young girl, a psychopathic vixen named Erza. She goats him into her psyche while simultaneously haunting his sensibilities with taunts of her wretched vice for blood and butchery.

An unforgettable celebration of Kyle Jarrow's (based on a concept by Alex Timbers) brilliant re-envisioning of a traditional Christmas pageant featuring E-Meters, Xenu, and L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics.