2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Friday Shorts @ 8

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  • For Your Own Safety
  • Kryo
  • Slow Wallet
    Slow Wallet
  • Gubagude Ko

For Your Own Safety

Jonas works at the hand baggage screening at an airport. He is obsessed by preventing the next terrorist attack. But neither his colleagues, nor his boss appreciate his commitment. His attention is raised by the suspicious behaviour of a Muslim colleague. Is this Jonas chance to finally get the recognition he deserves?

  • DIRECTOR
    Florian Heinzen-Ziob
  • YEAR
    2016
  • RUNTIME
    15 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Germany

In the Beginning was Water and Sky

A haunting and visually stunning fairytale that blends fantasy and real life events. Two Native American children navigate the dark corners of American history trying to find their way back to a home that may be lost forever.

  • DIRECTOR
    Ryan Ward
  • YEAR
    2016
  • RUNTIME
    13 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

Kryo

David (41) tries to cheat the death of his wife Evelyn (37) through the help of cryonics. When they wake up from cryo sleep in the far future, they find themselves to be alone and trapped inside a deserted cryo facility. But even after hundreds of years David has to learn the hard way that death is an undeniable part of life.

  • DIRECTOR
    Christoph Heimer
  • YEAR
    2016
  • RUNTIME
    30 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Germany

Slow Wallet

slow wallet (noun) – A person who deliberately takes a long ass time taking out their wallet so someone offers to pay for them first.

  • DIRECTOR
    Sheridan O’Donnell
  • YEAR
    2016
  • RUNTIME
    3 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    USA

The Return of Erkin

Erkin gets out of prison and wants to return to his former life. But everything has changed and he does not know if he can live as a free man.

  • DIRECTOR
    Maria Guskova
  • YEAR
    2015
  • RUNTIME
    29 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Uzbek
  • COUNTRY
    Russia

Gubagude Ko

A man witnesses a young woman’s rape and experiences the guilt of his inaction. (ft. Mahershala Ali)

  • DIRECTOR
    Philiane Phang
  • YEAR
    2016
  • RUNTIME
    11 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States
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