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: Feb 20, 2025

Jedo’s Dead

When a young middle-eastern girl finds her grandfather dead, she is forced to grapple with the earthly rituals and spiritual loose-ends of loss.

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My So-Called Iraqi Wedding

As a child, Iraqi-American SAMIRA “SAMI” RAMSEY learned to be an incurable romantic thanks to her rom-com loving, mystical aunt. Now, on the verge of 40, Sami has finally met ADAM, her person. But never mind love, how big is the wedding? That’s what her mother wants to know. And Sami finds herself sucked into […]

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Father’s Son

*CONTENT WARNING: Sexual Abuse* Yotam Regev, a teenage boy and the son of the town’s successful Mayor, has to choose: to tell the truth about his father, or lie and succeed him.

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Boys Go to Jupiter

A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age story.

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Damp

The protagonist abandoned their dreams in the past due to an accident, and the trauma made them long afraid to confront the things they once loved. It wasn’t until middle age that a chance occurrence allowed them to face their true feelings once again.

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Dropped

DROPPED is a comedy that follows Andrew Wallace, a struggling actor who gets dropped by his agent in the middle of teaching a master class to a group of children at his Old Catholic Middle School. Between his crumbling relationship with Laura, best friend turned drama teacher, and rivalry with Bridgit, a young up-and-coming actress […]

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A Summer’s End Poem

Shortly before the end of the summer holidays, a country boy spends his savings on his dream of a city hairstyle – with surprising results. A story about bidding farewell to childhood and the poetic end of a summer.

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Alleyways

A teenage boy (Espiritu) is facing transphobia toward his best friend (Wohlwend Zegri) and has no idea how to come face-to-face with the situation.

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Arcturus Beaming

Sam takes a road trip and discovers the beauty and the spectacle of virtual connections crossing into the real world. Set to the song Arcturus Beaming by The Crane Wives.

POSTED: Mar 2, 2024

Tuhaymani’chi Pal Waniqa (The Water Flows Always)

Tuhaymani’chi Pal Waniqa (The Water Flows Always) follows a Cahuilla, Cupeño father and daughter attempting to reconnect in a journey through their Indigenous roots in the ancient springs of the Mojave Desert, just as a new water-mining project threatens their very existence. The film addresses the efforts of protecting water resources and the sacred places […]