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 29, 2016

Shigeto

Beat-driven but given to richly textured sound design, rhythmically fractured but melodically sumptuous, Shigeto’s music is a bridge between the past and present, bringing the artist face to face with a creative legacy that spans decades.

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The Dogs

This is the real Detroit rock Ala The Stooges and MC-5 a resurgence of this Iconic three piece band that is still as raw and fresh as it was in 1978.

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Balance and Composure

Balance and Composure are an American alternative rock/melodic punk/post-hardcore band from Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

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Peanut Butter Wolf

Peanut Butter Wolf got his start in the early 90s as the DJ/producer for Charizma in San Jose, CA until December 1993 when Charizma lost his life at the age of 20. After taking a break from music, Wolf eventually started Stones Throw Records in 1996.

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Weatherbox

Weatherbox hurls itself from a neutral space between pop and progressive, between vague and specific, ultimately leaving it up to the listeners to figure it out for themselves. They howl from the cave in some alien tongue, but the message is loud and clear.

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Fortnight Film & Game Contest – Screening & Awards

CCFF is proud to present the Fortnight Film & Game Contest – a competition for teams of amateur, student and professional filmmakers, and game developers in Michigan – in conjunction with the 2016 festival!

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The Funeral Guest

*CLOSING NIGHT FEATURE, MICHIGAN PREMIERE, FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE* A lonely girl seeks love, connection and family by crashing other people’s funerals.

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Documentary Shorts Block (Encore Presentation)

A curated compilation of documentary short films. Selections include: Keeping Balance, Kim Madrid, We Would End the Paintings, The Champion, A Passion of Gold and Fire, Skips Stones for Fudge

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Embrace of the Serpent

At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT. SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him.

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Morris From America

*MICHIGAN PREMIERE* A heartwarming and crowd-pleasing coming-of-age comedy with a unique spin, Morris from America centers on Morris Gentry, a 13-year-old who has just relocated with his single father, Curtis to Heidelberg, Germany.