2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Global Shorts @ 8

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  • The Bond Between Sisters
    The Bond Between Sisters
  • El Conquistador
    El Conquistador
  • Threshold
    Threshold
  • Coo-Coo
    Coo-Coo
  • Eureka
    Eureka
  • Vlada Goes to London
    Vlada Goes to London
  • Time To Vote
    Time To Vote
  • DIRECTOR
    Jesper Haugsted
  • YEAR
    2021
  • RUNTIME
    13 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Danish
  • COUNTRY
    Denmark

El Conquistador

Fanny has become infatuated with the handsome, womanizing Diego, for whom her heart aches.
One evening, at a party, she tries to make him jealous by letting a random man hit on her… It works. But this “random man”, Victorino, a Peruvian photographer, has no intention of giving up that easily.

  • DIRECTOR
    Mathilde Bayle
  • YEAR
  • RUNTIME
    20 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    French
  • COUNTRY
    France

Threshold

Barış is a theatre actor. Theatres are closed during the peak of the covid pandemic. To earn his living, Barış starts to work as a carrier for a newly established delivery service application. One day, as he delivers an order, the door is opened by his still beloved ex-girlfriend Duygu. Duygu and his new boyfriend Berk owned a dance school but they had to close it down due to the pandemic. Having problems with Berk, Duygu has already packed up to leave the house and comes across to Barış at her last night in the city. As the world is crossing a threshold because of the pandemic, Duygu and Barış sit down at the door’s threshold, and face with emotions long stuck on the threshold.

  • DIRECTOR
    Egemen Kum
  • YEAR
  • RUNTIME
    5 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Turkish
  • COUNTRY
    Turkey

Coo-Coo

Dasha, a young biologist, prepares to defend her Ph.D. on the Baikal seal. Her Ph.D. advisor is skeptical about Dasha’s love for animals, and her mother only cares about the girl not missing night prayers. A story about a conflict between science and religion, love and suffering, between what Dasha wants and what others push her to do.

  • DIRECTOR
    Svetlana Belorussova
  • YEAR
    2021
  • RUNTIME
    19 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Russian
  • COUNTRY
    Russian Federation

Eureka

A young indentured Chinese prostitute must overcome her toxic dependency on the brothel madam on the eve of the 1885 anti-Chinese riot in Eureka, California.

  • DIRECTOR
    Miida Chu
  • YEAR
    2021
  • RUNTIME
    15 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English, Cantonese
  • COUNTRY
    United States

Vlada Goes to London

Vlada is a pizza delivery girl who lives in Haifa and dreams of becoming a famous DJ. Within a five-hour shift, we get a glimpse into her world full of pressure where she’s willing to do whatever it takes to find the money for a flight to perform at a festival in London.

  • DIRECTOR
    Arti Savchenko
  • YEAR
    2020
  • RUNTIME
    22 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Hebrew, Russian
  • COUNTRY
    Israel

Time to Vote

What begins as an ordinary board in a traditional apartment building to vote the renewal of the elevator, turns into an unexpected debate about the limits of pacific coexistence.

  • DIRECTOR
    Santiago Requejo Lopez-Mateos
  • YEAR
    2021
  • RUNTIME
    14 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Spanish
  • COUNTRY
    Spain
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