2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Absurdly Funny Shorts

*FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE*
You’ll either be rolling in your seats or picking your jaw up off the floor from the sheer, unadulterated absurdity that these comedies have to offer.

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Sandra

“SANDRA” is a surreal comedy that follows Jane (Alison Banowsky) whose banal and predictable life with her boyfriend (Andrew Knox) is upended when she finds out that a mysterious and erratic woman has been living in her basement. The film is about getting unstuck, learning to trust your intuition, and most importantly, letting your freaky side flourish.

  • DIRECTOR
    Hannah Levy, Jen Chuck
  • YEAR
    2025
  • RUNTIME
    12 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

Dropped

DROPPED is a comedy that follows Andrew Wallace, a struggling actor who gets dropped by his agent in the middle of teaching a master class to a group of children at his Old Catholic Middle School. Between his crumbling relationship with Laura, best friend turned drama teacher, and rivalry with Bridgit, a young up-and-coming actress in class who just booked a job on network television, Andrew must face his fears of failure and reconnect with his younger self who found joy in art outside of career success.

  • DIRECTOR
    Lucy Hirschfeld
  • YEAR
    2024
  • RUNTIME
    16 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

My So-Called Iraqi Wedding

As a child, Iraqi-American SAMIRA “SAMI” RAMSEY learned to be an incurable romantic thanks to her rom-com loving, mystical aunt. Now, on the verge of 40, Sami has finally met ADAM, her person. But never mind love, how big is the wedding? That’s what her mother wants to know. And Sami finds herself sucked into the lavish, circus-like celebrations. She just needs to get through this wedding and then her life with Adam will be her own… right? My So-Called Iraqi-American Wedding asks the question, “How do you listen to your own heart when everything around you is so damn loud?”

  • DIRECTOR
    Ayser Salman
  • YEAR
    2024
  • RUNTIME
    14 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Arabic, English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

Cat Custody

After his partner breaks up with him, a man fights to retain custody of their cats.

  • DIRECTOR
    Kyle Dubiel
  • YEAR
    2024
  • RUNTIME
    4 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

Circle Circle Circle Circle

Four grieving friends gather to release the past year and their night takes a wildly unexpected turn.

  • DIRECTOR
    Katherine Skelton, Libby Ewing
  • YEAR
    2024
  • RUNTIME
    12 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

Would You Like To Buy A Landline?

Desperate to move up in the world, two accident prone sheet music store employees quit their jobs to pursue an equally irrelevant career path as door to door landline telephone salesmen. Originally made as part of the 2024 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge.

  • DIRECTOR
    Shane Hillier
  • YEAR
    2024
  • RUNTIME
    10 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

A Field Guide to Sasquatch Structures (and other serious signs)

Twoops has dedicated his life to “Squatching,” – searching the woods for evidence of the Sasquatch. When two young women hire him as a tour guide with the intent to mock him, they all find something much worse than they bargained for

  • DIRECTOR
    Joe Van Auken
  • YEAR
    2024
  • RUNTIME
    18 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States
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