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: Mar 28, 2018

Wanderland

*MIDWEST PREMIERE* Bored with his humdrum life in the city, Alex accepts a mysterious email invitation to house-sit at a picturesque ‘Enchanted Cottage’ on Long Island in the off-season, only to end up lost on a surreal musical all-night odyssey of misadventures.

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Saturday Shorts @ 7:30

A curated collection of international short films with subtitles. Selections include: Tapferkeit, The Peculiar Abilities of Mr. Mahler, Native, The Fare

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A Prayer Before Dawn

*MIDWEST PREMIERE* [WARNING: VIOLENT SEXUAL CONTENT] The true story of an English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailand’s most notorious prisons as he fights in Muay Thai tournaments to earn his freedom.

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Saturday Shorts @ 2:30

A curated collection of international short films with subtitles. Selections include: Ablution, Fynn, The Transfer, Cigarbox Blues, Iron Hands, What Remains of You (Ce Qu’il Reste de Toy)

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Saturday Shorts @ Noon

A curated collection of international short films with subtitles. Selections include: Nicole’s Cage, Unknown Life, Professional Cuddler, I Did It In Cancun, Imbiss, King Grandpa

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Charmer

Charmer is a four-piece emo group rooted in Marquette, MI. Signing with emo / pop punk powerhouse No Sleep Records in March 2017, the quartet has subsequently released EPs, gaining traction among fans of related artists Sorority Noise, Remo Drive, and Mom Jeans.

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Obnox

OBNOX is soul music for the bruised and battered; feel-good tunes for the righteously pissed-off masses; and a sonic salve for the neglected and ignored.

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The Best of All Worlds

The Best of All Worlds

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* A kid’s true story of his life in the unusual world of his heroin addict mother and their love of each other.

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First Reformed

A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.

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Hot Summer Nights

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* A boy comes of age during a summer he spends in Cape Cod.