2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Apr 1, 2022

Animated Shorts

Selections include: That’s Mine!!! / Speci Man / Love / It’s Raining Heads / Where the Winds Die / Endre and the Mountain / Daddy Look! / Conversion / Dear Brother / Elephant in the Room / Seize the Moment / When is the Best Time to Say Goodbye? / L’abattu des vents / Desire Trap / Anomie / Scum / Carnival of the Centipede / Catvid-030 / Run for Life / Ariss / A Daffofil Under Close Inspection

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Symphonic Cinema [FREE]

This special program features two dynamic pairings for a unique cinematic experience. Heartland Klezmorim will perform live to Charlie Chaplain’s THE IMMIGRANT. Next up: Collaborators Lorelei d’Andriole Jones and Jean Knific explore how their relationship to their musical instruments radically changed as they came into their identities as trans women. In this expanded cinema performance, […]

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All of the Above Creative Takeover

AOTA Creative is collective of artists drawn together by their love for Hip Hop culture, community outreach and youth empowerment. Featuring Cutt Nice
Ozay Moore, Jahshua Smith, Sareem Poems, Y’z Council, James Gardin, Kwaj, Miles Young

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Global Shorts @ 9:30

Selections include: Im Sturm / Pater / Kopfkino / Cold Beds / It Passes Quickly / Tricksters

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Down with the King

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* Money Merc, a famous rapper disillusioned with the music industry and the pressures of being a celebrity, leaves the city and his career behind to find himself in a small-town farming community.

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Good Madam

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* Tsidi, a single mother, is forced to move in with her estranged mother Mavis, a live-in domestic worker caring obsessively for her catatonic white ‘Madam’. As Tsidi tries to heal her family however, a sinister spectre begins to stir.

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Never Had A Bad Day

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* Inventor, entrepreneur and engineer Bernie Karl runs Chena Hot Springs Resort in Alaska year-round on 100% geothermal power. As a big thinker and fearless innovator, he’s always working on something new. Screens with the short film Opus 839

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Red Carpet Premiere Party

Pull those party outfits out of the back of your closet and celebrate CCFF 2022 with us! Come hang out with filmmakers, musicians, artists, and our Lansing community on the red carpet.

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Chirp

Chirp is a four-piece, genre-hopping band based out of Ann Arbor, MI. Often playing in the styles of progressive rock/funk and jazz-fusion, their sound maintains a melodic center; with special guest NWRH

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Reality Benders Shorts

*FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE* Selections include: Hunger / Left Behind / I’m at Home / Of Dionysus / My Soul to Take / Big Touch / The Call of Water / Dead House ’98 / Deficit Anima / Epoufette