2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

‘Comedy Oddities’ Shorts

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Prepare for your expectations to be subverted and inverted! If you’re looking for tales of the curious and comical, this eccentric block of short films is sure to be up your alley.

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  • Diary of Hitler Kumar
  • Live in 5
  • Relationshirt
  • I Wanted to be Vittorio Gassman
  • Cancelled Stamp
  • The Cheshire Zombie
  • Supermarket Affairs
  • Finding Filman

Diary of Hitler Kumar

A documentary about Hitler Kumar who is obsessed with killing mosquitoes

  • DIRECTOR
    Rohit Patidar
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    8 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Hindi
  • COUNTRY
    India

Live in 5

An intern for a live cooking show production must fill in for a much bigger role than he signed up for.

  • DIRECTOR
    Anna Rodman, Luke Zobel, Lizette Bulthuis, Franklin Snyder, Jon Bomers
  • YEAR
  • RUNTIME
    5 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

Relationshirt

While staying the night at her new boyfriend’s place, Sarah asks to wear a shirt to bed. Subsequently opening up a portal inside his closet that leads to a 1980’s Dating Show, where 3 lucky shirts await.

  • DIRECTOR
    Joshua Radford
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    17 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

I Wanted to be Vittorio Gassman

1962. Aldo Marianecci, a 40 year old actor seeking his big break, returns to his hometown, Cisterna di Latina. He will spend the weekend with his lifetime buddies and with a young American woman met on a movie set in Rome. His days will go by waiting for a call that might finally change his life.

  • DIRECTOR
    Cristian Scardigno
  • YEAR
    2021
  • RUNTIME
    16 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Italian
  • COUNTRY
    Italy

Cancelled Stamp

When sex comes between aging conjoined vaudevillians, each sister must make her own life and death choice.

  • DIRECTOR
    Joyce Kline
  • YEAR
    2021
  • RUNTIME
    13 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    Canada

The Cheshire Zombie

Friendships during a zombie apocalypse are difficult to manage.

  • DIRECTOR
    Shawn Anthony Cockerham
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    6 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

Supermarket Affairs

A Vietnamese immigrant mother and daughter in the US argue over how to honor the late patriarch as they shop for his second death anniversary, and inadvertently involve a handsome stranger at the local Asian supermarket.

  • DIRECTOR
    Hang Luong Nguyen
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    16 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English, Vietnamese
  • COUNTRY
    Vietnam

Finding Filman

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A documentary team follows a delusional soft-core porn actor who seeks to cross over into the mainstream acting world. REGIS FILMAN is a soft core porn actor who has recently been submitted for consideration for an AVN Award for his performance in an adult film entitled ‘The Buttler’. The potential nomination leads him to believe that he is ”˜more’ than just a soft core star and he seeks to ‘cross over’ into the mainstream performance world by showcasing his skills as a ”˜method actor’. When the AVN nomination doesn’t go as planned Regis must rely on help from his roommate JAKE and the rest of his friends to keep him focused on his method acting dreams.

  • DIRECTOR
    Kevin Anglin
  • YEAR
    2020
  • RUNTIME
    13 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    United States
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