2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Shorts Block [Alien]

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  • Twinsburg
  • It Has To Be You
  • Carpe Jugular
  • The Jacket
  • Best Mates
  • 3000
  • Baits and Hooks
  • Cloudstruck Drive
  • Two Windows

Twinsburg

Identical brothers reconnect at the world’s largest gathering of twins.
  • DIRECTOR
    Joe Garrity
  • YEAR
    2016
  • RUNTIME
    16 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    USA

It Has To Be You

At a clandestine diner in East New York, three conversations happen simultaneously: The cook and the waitress, by the counter, falling in love. The two newlyweds by the window, discussing their second thoughts about life together. And the two men in a booth, speaking about a killing.  Shot on 35mm film, It Has To Be You is a romantic thriller in the vein of classic American crime films of the 70’s.

  • DIRECTOR
    Conrad Rothbaum
  • YEAR
    2015
  • RUNTIME
    13 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    USA

Carpe Jugular

The dance floor is a battlefield.

  • DIRECTOR
    Kai Stänicke
  • YEAR
    2014
  • RUNTIME
    5 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    Germany

The Jacket

A boy meets a girl. It could be love. But there is this jacket, too. And the jacket will change everything…

  • DIRECTOR
    Patrick Vollrath
  • YEAR
    2014
  • RUNTIME
    9 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Austria

Best Mates

Best Mates is the story of a very strong long lasting male friendship and what happens to such an intense friendship when one party grows up and moves on. It’s about that one friend; the mate you love bu

  • DIRECTOR
    Benedict Wall
  • YEAR
    2015
  • RUNTIME
    7 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    Australia

3000

Athens, Greece. An unemployed youth desperate to help his best friend fight cancer secretly decides to become a criminal to pay for the treatments.

  • DIRECTOR
    Antonis Tsonis
  • YEAR
    2015
  • RUNTIME
    20 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Greek
  • COUNTRY
    Greece, Australia

Baits and Hooks

Two fishing buddies, a privatization of a socialist fabric, Big brother and some fish stew.

  • DIRECTOR
    Luka Popadić
  • YEAR
    2014
  • RUNTIME
    10 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Serbian
  • COUNTRY
    Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland

Cloudstruck Drive

On this cold November afternoon in Denmark, Jørgen, a retired physicist gives a ride to young Stine. Together they travel towards Copenhagen, where Jørgen will reunite with his daughter that he has not seen for many years. As the miles pass, they are both confronted with more than they expected.

  • DIRECTOR
    Milad Avaz
  • YEAR
    2015
  • RUNTIME
    18 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Danish
  • COUNTRY
    Denmark

Two Windows

Two neighbors jump into an unexpected friendship outside their windows.  In order to reconnect his TV connection, Helmut decides to climb out of his window in a resolute manner.  His neighbor Walter misinterprets this action as an attempted suicide, which Walter would love to join as well.  While trying to clarify this misunderstanding, both find a close friend in the until now unknown neighbor.

  • DIRECTOR
    Tim Ellrich, Leonhard Kaufman
  • YEAR
    2016
  • RUNTIME
    10 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Germany
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  • Sat, April 9 8:00PM
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  • The Loft
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  • Sat, April 9 6:30 PM
  • Surveyors Museum
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  • Sat, April 9 4:00 PM
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  • Sat, April 9 11:00AM
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  • Sat, April 9 10:30 PM
  • Old Town Temple
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  • Lansing Public Media Center
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