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

Red Letter Day

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* RED LETTER DAY is a dark comedy/thriller that asks the age-old question: Just how well do you know your neighbors? Screens with the short film The Glimpse.

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Destroy All Cinema ft. Funny Girls

CCFF brings you DESTROY ALL CINEMA! Join the Funny Girls as they riff on our favorite 1997 slasher film, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER.

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Her Smell

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.

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Friday Evening Shorts

*DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE* A curated collection of international short films with subtitles. Selections include: Broken Pipe / Luana / Moderately Satisfied / Accident / The Old Man and the Dead / Until Forever (Hasta Siempre)

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Animated Shorts

*MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY* Selections include: The Juggler / Your Eyes, Will I Ever / Gumamel / Fuse / Beauty Fall / Darling / Carlotta’s Face / Things Were Better Before / Back to the Moon / Undersee / In the House of Paper Flowers / Age of Sail / Starvation

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Guest Artist

*OPENING NIGHT FEATURE // MIDWEST PREMIERE* The story of a young man coming face to face with his hero (Jeff Daniels) and exploring the tangled relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age. Screens with the short film Hair Trigger.

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Red Carpet Premiere Party

Come celebrate the ninth annual Capital City Film Festival with us on the red carpet! Plenty of beer, wine, and spirits for sippin’, appetizers to go around, and live music at this year’s party hosted by Impression 5 Science Center.

POSTED: Mar 24, 2019

Guest Artist [Encore Screening]

*MIDWEST PREMIERE* The story of a young man coming face to face with his hero (Jeff Daniels) and exploring the tangled relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age. Screens with the short film Hair Trigger.

POSTED: Mar 23, 2019

Sen Morimoto

Sen Morimoto is a multi-instrumentalist composer and songwriter born in Kyoto, Japan. His powerful grasp of jazz composition, pop songwriting, and hip-hop styling are fully articulated on Cannonball!, an LP that he wrote, arranged, and produced by himself.

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Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route

*FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE* A documentary in Five Acts that examines the rise, demise, and contested resurgence of Detroit through the lens of African-American mail carrier, Wendell Watkins, and the residents he has faithfully served for thirty years. Screens with the short films Danny’s Super 8 and Detroit Hives.