2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Global Shorts

Experience stories from around the world, from the comfort of your capital city. From the bold to the intimate, we’re certain that this globe-trotting collection of dramatic shorts will stay with you long after you leave the theater.

*NOTE: This program contains a film with the Content Warning: Sexual Abuse

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A Summer’s End Poem

Shortly before the end of the summer holidays, a country boy spends his savings on his dream of a city hairstyle – with surprising results. A story about bidding farewell to childhood and the poetic end of a summer.

  • DIRECTOR
    Lam Can-zhao
  • YEAR
    2024
  • RUNTIME
    15 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Chinese, Min Nan
  • COUNTRY
    China, Switzerland

Pentaclub (The Club of Five)

The year is 1968. Five teenage boys dream of running a movie theater in which they will not show pro-war films. One summer afternoon Giò, Delfo, Max, Ricky and Paolo learn to become trusted friends, indispensable to one another. A coming-of-age, adventure film about friendship, one with small but large rebellious acts that signal the end of childhood and the beginning of adulthood. *** A group of friends, who met in the 1960s, was essential to the film’s production. In fact, the production design and costume departments were entrusted by the director to lifelong friends with whom he shared his early experiments with 8mm film whilst the screenplay was written by the director and his wife. Therefore, Pentaclub is a film about friendship, both on the screen and behind the scenes. Other departments were handled by professionals.

  • DIRECTOR
    Roberto Strazzarino
  • YEAR
    2023
  • RUNTIME
    25 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Italian
  • COUNTRY
    Italy

Cow Killer

Naser’s sick cow is about to die, but it lives due to Khazar’s (his granddaughter) wish for it to be healed. Naser recognizes this as a miracle and goes after other sick cows, along with Khazar, to repeat the miracle.

  • DIRECTOR
    Farhad Mohamadzadeh
  • YEAR
    2024
  • RUNTIME
    25 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Azerbaijani, Persian
  • COUNTRY
    Iran, Islamic Republic of

Das Feuilleton: Seemann (Sailor)

Music video for the song “Seemann (Sailor)” of German band “Das Feuilleton”: A strange TV cooking show turns into a battle. No one wants to be cooked, right?

  • DIRECTOR
    Thadeusz Tischbein, Robert Amarell
  • YEAR
    2024
  • RUNTIME
    5 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Germany

Maraschino Cherries

Pending an eviction from their landlord, a brother and a sister have no choice but to take matters into their own hands to come up with the money and stay out of the streets.

  • DIRECTOR
    Vincent Paquette
  • YEAR
    2023
  • RUNTIME
    19 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    French
  • COUNTRY
    Canada

Father’s Son

*CONTENT WARNING: Sexual Abuse*
Yotam Regev, a teenage boy and the son of the town’s successful Mayor, has to choose: to tell the truth about his father, or lie and succeed him.

  • DIRECTOR
    Nadan Pines
  • YEAR
    2023
  • RUNTIME
    24 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Hebrew
  • COUNTRY
    Israel
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