2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Science of Cinema

This event is generously sponsored by PNC Foundation.

CCFF and Impression 5 Science Center are teaming up to bring you Science of Cinema, a day of exploring the motion and creation of movies! Science of Cinema includes a pop-up theater showing family-friendly animated and live action short films, a cardboard TV and zoetrope activities, and a stop motion workshop for kids of all ages to participate in.

Science of Cinema runs from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Regular Impression 5 Science Center admission rates apply to enter anything other than the pop-up theater. Visit their website for details.

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  • Changyou's Journey
    Changyou’s Journey
  • Lemon & Elderflower
    Lemon & Elderflower
  • Good Boy
    Good Boy
  • The Astronaut's Journal
    The Astronaut’s Journal

Changyou’s Journey

A cancer-stricken father reminisces his life through the animation film by his young son.

  • DIRECTOR
    Perry Chen
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    6 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

Lemon & Elderflower

Two sibling hummingbirds have to build different inventions in order to solve their “big” problem: to take flight with other birds.

  • DIRECTOR
    Ilenia Cotardo
  • YEAR
    2017
  • RUNTIME
    3 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    Italy

Good Boy

A hopeful man goes on a blind date with the women of his dreams expecting to have the best night of his life. Things seem to be going perfect, until the night take an unexpected turn.

  • DIRECTOR
    Rachel Beltran, Nicole Myers
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    7 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

The Astronaut’s Journal

“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.”

― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

  • DIRECTOR
    Marina Belikova
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    5 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    Germany
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