2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Saturday Shorts @ 2:30

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  • Ablution
    Ablution
  • The Transfer
    The Transfer
  • Fynn
    Fynn
  • Iron Hands
    Iron Hands
  • What Remains of You (Ce Qu’il Reste de Toy)
  • Cigar Box Blues
    Cigarbox Blues

Ablution

The bond between a disabled Muslim father and his son is tested when love is pitted against religion.

Everyday Waleed washes his disabled dad, Khaled, for prayer as a part of their Islamic religious obligation. But, when Khaled suspects his son is gay he’s torn between accepting him or living on his own unable to pray.

  • DIRECTOR
    Omar Al Dakheel
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    15 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Arabic, English
  • COUNTRY
    United States

The Transfer

Erez, an Israeli commissioned officer, and two other soldiers have been ordered to transfer a prisoner to Megiddo prison. Along the way, a conflict arises that forces the young officer to surpass himself in order to solve the situation.

  • DIRECTOR
    Michael Grudsky
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    22 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Hebrew
  • COUNTRY
    Germany

Fynn

The young rapper Dissy meets the beat producing shadow figure Fynn. Influenced by Fynn, the unconfident Dissy plays an arrogant roll, which everyone in his hood likes. Dissy falls in love with the wonderful Laura but because of Fynn, he turns more and more into a psychopathic stalker. He understands that Fynn is an hallucination embodying the bad side of his personality, which he needs to get rid of to get closer to Laura. A fight between Dissy’s bright and dark side starts out.

  • DIRECTOR
    Till Krücken
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    11 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Germany

Iron Hands

As a 12-year-old girl prepares for her final test trying out for the traditionally all-boys Chinese youth Olympic weightlifting team, she makes an unlikely connection with the gym’s reclusive groundskeeper.

  • DIRECTOR
    Johnson Cheng
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    11 Minutes
  • COUNTRY
    United States

What Remains of You (Ce Qu’il Reste de Toy)

Michel and Sophie are two lovers. they don’t dare to think about the future yet. and then fate gets on their way. how to finish what had just started?

  • DIRECTOR
    Kevin Dresse
  • YEAR
    2016
  • RUNTIME
    18 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    Frence
  • COUNTRY
    France

Cigarbox Blues

Derek is having the blues and this does not only refer to his stage performance. When the singer wakes up in a
psychiatry after a suicide attempt, he meets Adam, his devoted fan and at once his pain in the ass. A story about
two guitars, three chords and the beginning of an friendship.

  • DIRECTOR
    Christopher Kaufmann
  • YEAR
    2018
  • RUNTIME
    22 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Germany
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