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

  • A Summer’s End Poem
  • Pentaclub (The Club of Five)
  • Cow Killer
  • Das Feuilleton: Seemann (Sailor)
  • Maraschino Cherries
  • Father’s Son

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.

  • 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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