2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Global Shorts I

We love celebrating our global filmmaking community. From the bold to the intimate, we’re certain that this fine collection of international films will stay with you long after you leave your seat (or pew).

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  • Waiting here
  • Angelica Levoisier – She Walks in Beauty
  • Beyond the Sea
  • Vanished
  • Phoenix
  • Animalia

Waiting here

An event disrupts the life of Andrea, a 9-year-old boy, forcing him to put a strain on his childhood. With the help of his parents, young Andrea moves lightly in the world of adults to restore broken balances.

  • DIRECTOR
    Gabriele Brundu
  • YEAR
    2023
  • RUNTIME
    12 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Italian
  • COUNTRY
    Italy

Angelica Levoisier – She Walks in Beauty

A burlesque performance between night and day, the moon and the sun, darkness and light. A music video about female beauty that exists in a multitude of forms and as a union of contrasts.

  • DIRECTOR
    Egor Gavrilin
  • YEAR
    2023
  • RUNTIME
    4 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    No Dialogue
  • COUNTRY
    Russian Federation

Beyond the Sea

Lady Casca, a drag queen in her sixties, is about to go on stage at her cabaret for the last time. The next day, retirement by the sea awaits her. But her son Thomas, whom she has not seen for a long time, interrupts the festivities. He has sad news to tell her.

  • DIRECTOR
    Hippolyte Leibovici
  • YEAR
    2023
  • RUNTIME
    25 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    French
  • COUNTRY
    Belgium

Vanished

A young couple live in an old house confiscated by the government, which is about to be demolished. While packing, the real owner shows up to visit his home for one last time.

  • DIRECTOR
    Nasim Tehrani
  • YEAR
    2021
  • RUNTIME
    18 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Persian
  • COUNTRY
    Iran

Phoenix

Farough, an Afghani 45 years old man, wants to fulfill his father’s will by burring his corps in Afghanistan. However, due to the Taliban’s invasion, he was forced to carry the deceased father‘s corpse from out of the way and mountains to his motherland.

  • DIRECTOR
    Mohsen Nabavi
  • YEAR
    2022
  • RUNTIME
    13 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Persian
  • COUNTRY
    Iran

Animalia

Luca, a freshly graduated psychologist, meets a strange creature: a young girl completely naked who lives like an animal in the forest. The initial concern about her, soon becomes a morbid interest, with dangerous implications.

  • DIRECTOR
    Giovanni Battista Bacilieri
  • YEAR
    2021
  • RUNTIME
    30 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Italian
  • COUNTRY
    Italy
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