2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Updates

You heard it here first! Check out the latest Capital City Film Festival announcements below.
POSTED: Mar 26, 2019

Saturday Shorts @ 2:30

A curated collection of international short films with subtitles. Selections include: The Big Shot / Nomad / First Disco / Dare Not Fly / Incommunicado / Darling / Carlotta’s Face

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Comedy Shorts

*FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE* 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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Bernadette

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE // DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE* 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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About A Donkey

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE // DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE* When Tim brings home a donkey in a mixture of wanting to rescue both it and himself, all of the characters’ lives are shaken up and pushed forward. Screens with the short films Dearly Departed and Only a Movie!

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Spartan Shorts [FREE]

*FREE // FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE* Selections include: Bags to Butterflies / The Boogie Man / Incandescent Hearts / GRIND / Hours Left / Blackout Shades / Juice / Party Foul / Shattered / The Fisherman / Routine Cops

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Saturday Shorts @ 7:30

Selections include: A Picnic Table, At Dusk / Magnolia & Clementine / Terminally in Love / Safe / Self Tape / Wonderwall / Four-Ninety

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Saturday Shorts @ 5

*FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE* Selections include: Little Church / Thirsty Eyes – 838 / Newborn / Bennifer / Nevada / I Can’t Even / Hair Trigger / June

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Owned: A Tale of Two Americas

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* Owned is a fever dream vision into the dark history behind the US housing economy. Tracking its overtly racist beginnings and its unbridled commoditization, the film exposes a foundational story that few Americans understand as their own. Screens with the short film Due Process.

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House of More: Opening Night

*FREE* A video art exhibition including immersive experiences and live experimental performances. Open 7:00 PM – midnight. Join us for Opening Night soundtracked by BLVCK ICE.

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The Cowboys

Bloomington, Indiana has something to really be proud of in hometown heroes The Cowboys. One of the most exciting and indescribable bands of the last five years, this band manages to escape all of the pitfalls of modern DIY punk/garage and break out into a field of their own instantly.