Sahand Nikoukar

A thirty-minute video in which nothing happens. Listen to the ambient sounds surrounding San Francisco.

Yakup, a Turkish music teacher seeking political asylum in New York, is trying to keep his head above water as he navigates the US immigration system. Working illegally in a restaurant kitchen with a lively group of fellow immigrants, he is laser focused on laying the groundwork to bring his wife and daughter abroad. In a desperate attempt to expedite the process, he seeks help from a group of shady fellow countrymen who resort to risky methods to get people out of Turkey. But things quickly go sideways and chances to reunite with his loved ones deteriorate by the minute.

A wandering computer programmer befriends college students Trent Turner and Rick Thorn, but friendship soon turns to suspicion as they discover the bloody past that drives his lonely life of endless searching.

A USC Graduate Thesis Film about a nine-year-old Persian boy in 1992 Los Angeles who thinks a pair of Air Jordans will make him fly.

Driver 113 liked his job for Mappr360 - mapping America's forgotten roads - until his cameras captured something he wasn't meant to see.