2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

The Capital City Film Festival celebrates artists from around the world by curating outstanding multimedia experiences for the community.

The Capital City Film Festival celebrates artists from around the world by curating outstanding multimedia experiences for the community.

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Saturday Morning Shorts

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  • The Way You Die
  • Bär
  • Sanctuary of Collell
  • At the Door
  • Bahar Im Wunderland
  • Roadtrip
  • Border Patrol

The Way You Die

1960. Night. A train on its way to the Iron Curtain. In it Sebastian (Andreas Thiele) – a guy like you and me. His actual mission was to escort an important painting to Prague. But after finding one of the guards murdered on the toilet, he is already in the middle of a bizarre 1960ies spy story. Who is the Scottish man (Erol Sander) in his perfectly tailored suit who seeks his life with a silenced gun? Is the attractive train hostess (Jil Funke) really what she claims to be? To save his life and the painting, Sebastian has to overcome his fears which may also include breaking free from his ghastly fiancée (Finja Martens).

  • DIRECTOR
    Manuel Vogel
  • YEAR
    2014
  • RUNTIME
    25 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Germany
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Bär
My grandpa’s past was always very present. It would break through in something he’d say or do, but he’d never talk about it. Only now, by revisiting his life and personality as I knew him, do I feel the weight of his inheritance.
  • DIRECTOR
    Pascal Flörks
  • YEAR
    2014
  • RUNTIME
    8 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Germany
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Sanctuary of Collell

The Spanish Civil War is coming to a bloody end.

A Fascist prisoner and young Republican soldier’s lives intertwine in a meditative short, exploring the fear of death.

  • DIRECTOR
    Boris Thompson-Roylance
  • YEAR
    2014
  • RUNTIME
    12 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Spanish
  • COUNTRY
    UK
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Auguste & Louis

Auguste and Louis are fishing, but the fish will have to wait…

  • DIRECTOR
    Nicolas Bertrand
  • YEAR
    2014
  • RUNTIME
    8 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    French
  • COUNTRY
    Belgium
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At the Door
A man comes to pick up his son at his ex-wife’s house, just like every weekend. As always, he waits at the entrance of her apartment building for his son to come downstairs. But this Saturday, it takes a little longer. Their son wants to finish watching a TV show. And so it happens that the separated couple starts to talk again – via the intercom. Suddenly the former intimacy is back, the conversation almost turns into a flirt…
The most painful thing about a separation is the fact that you remain so close to each other.
  • DIRECTOR
    Miriam Bliese
  • YEAR
    2013
  • RUNTIME
    5 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Germany
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Bahar Im Wunderland
Where do you hide from danger, when you can’t hide anywhere? The kurdish girl Bahar believes she has found a way. “Bahar in Wonderland” is the story of Bahar, a little girl, who given the circumstances she is in, is not able to be a child. She is escaping with her father from Syria to Germany. In order to fight her fears and defend herself from danger she believes in being able to get invisible by closing her eyes.
  • DIRECTOR
    Behrooz Karamizad
  • YEAR
    2013
  • RUNTIME
    16 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Germany
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Roadtrip

Julius can not sleep. To get his head empty he decides to go on a roadtrip, but somehow he can not manage to leave. A hand drawn film about failure, insomnia, a red motorbike, pretty bargirls, the desolateness of Berlin (even in summer) and waterproof socks.

  • DIRECTOR
    Xaver Xylophon
  • YEAR
    2014
  • RUNTIME
    22 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Germany
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Border Patrol
Carl, a young eager border cop is anxious to finish work so he can watch the big football match against Austria. Getting annoyed with his partner, Franz (who’s nearing retirement and likes to take his time), his plans are thwarted by the discovery of a suicide victim in the woods just near the Austrian border. The wily Franz realises this an opportunity for a bit of fun with his younger colleague, and sets about instructing him in making the body the Austrians’ problem. It all seems to work out well, except maybe the Austrians have seen this body before.
  • DIRECTOR
    Peter Baumann
  • YEAR
    2013
  • RUNTIME
    15 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Germany
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Check out other upcoming events

Symphonic Cinema (FREE)

  • Sat, April 11 8:00 PM
  • Lansing Center
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Unexpected

  • Sat, April 11 10:00 p.m.
  • Knapp’s Centre
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Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers

  • Sat, April 11 8:00 PM
  • The Loft
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The Legal Immigrants w/ Jesse Ray and the Carolina Catfish, Off the Ledge & Second to None

  • Sat, April 11 7:00 PM
  • Mac’s Bar
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Big Significant Things

  • Sat, April 11 2:00 p.m.
  • Lansing Public Media Center
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American Film Institute Shorts Showcase (FREE)

  • Sat, April 11 6:00 p.m.
  • Knapp’s Centre
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Ratter

  • Sat, April 11 10:00 p.m.
  • Lansing Public Media Center
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Cody High: A Life Remodeled

  • Sat, April 11 5:00 p.m.
  • Lansing Public Media Center
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Animals

  • Sat, April 11 12:00 p.m.
  • Lansing Public Media Center
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Second Shift: from Crisis to Collaboration

  • Sat, April 11 3:30 p.m.
  • Dart Auditorium
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Food Chains

  • Sat, April 11 1:30 p.m.
  • Dart Auditorium
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Science of Cinema at Impression 5 Science Center (FREE)

  • Sat, April 11 10:00 a.m.
  • Impression 5 Science Center
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