2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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You heard it here first! Check out the latest Capital City Film Festival announcements below.
POSTED: Apr 3, 2019

DeadTectives

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* DeadTectives follows a team of hapless paranormal investigators on a reality TV series who go on a quest to Mexico’s most haunted house in the pursuit of better ratings.

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CCFF Presents: StoopFest 2019

CCFF is proud to present StoopFest 2019! Lansing’s own DIY arts, music, and comedy festival is back and takes place all over Lansing’s East Side.

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Bernadette [ENCORE SCREENING]

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* 1994 was the perfect summer… for heartache. At 15, Archie Kinsler has an impossible goal: to win the heart of Bernadette, a much older French foreign exchange student and local lifeguard, before she returns home at the end of the season. Screens with the short film Brain Engagement.

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Olympia [ENCORE SCREENING]

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* When her boyfriend Felix asks her to move to California with him, Olympia, on the cusp of 30, has to decide if she’s going to change along with the world around her, or get left behind. Screens with the short film Little Church.

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Comedy Shorts [ENCORE SCREENING]

Selections include: The High Wire / Nico or (Head of the Family) / Clueless / College Town / Cannonball / 2019: A Home Odyssey / Chirp, Buzz, & Other Sensations / Only A Movie! / Dearly Departed / First Kill

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Ms. Purple

*MIDWEST PREMIERE* A young woman who works as a karaoke hostess in Koreatown, Los Angeles reconnects with her estranged brother in the final days of their father’s life.

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Dogman

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* A film by Matteo Garrone, Director of GOMORRAH; A timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.

POSTED: Apr 2, 2019

VAI

*CLOSING NIGHT FEATURE // MIDWEST PREMIERE* Vai is a portmanteau feature film made by nine female Pacific filmmakers, filmed in seven different Pacific countries. It is about the journey of Vai, played by a different indigenous actress in each of the Pacific countries. In each of these Pacific nations ‘vai’ means water.

POSTED: Mar 28, 2019

Vitality: Official CCFF Afterparty

The Official CCFF Afterparty presented in partnership with The Mioner Agency, Man vs. Wild, + Sometimes Art House

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Rafiki Screening & Queerceañera Celebration

*FREE // MICHIGAN PREMIERE* “Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives,” but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.