2026 FESTIVALApril 8-18, 2026Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Mar 13, 2023

Roped

Mother and Daughter are roped for life by an eternal bond that heals and hurts, and that is perpetuated when Daughter becomes a Mother.

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Roses by Nolia Noon

This is the debut music video for Louisville band Nolia Noon with its song, “Roses.” The video features singer/guitarist Jared Foos as a young man who is left heartbroken when his longtime girlfriend leaves him for a rich guy. She has regrets but he moves on.

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Self Care

Self Care is a daytime horror. An otherworldly self-care guru seeks to heal a broken woman, but the woman’s cling to the material world risks resistance to her transformation.

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Hayseed

After the shocking death of a small-town reverend, insurance investigator Leo Hobbins (Bill Sage) arrives at Emmaus Holy and interviews the church secretary, Darlene Halsey (Ismenia Mendes). Against his better judgement, Hobbins agrees to help Darlene find the actual cause of the reverend’s death. Hobbins proceeds to interview all the congregation members, sifting through a […]

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Heleno

Sergio and Elena are a happy couple. One night, Elena starts to talk and act strangely. The next day the couple take it as a joke. Things start to get complicated when Heleno turns up in their lives. This entity will use old sexist patterns and new liberal ideas to destroy Sergio and his relationship […]

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In the Water

*Content Warning: Sexual Assault/Abuse While hooking up at a party, two high schoolers unearth a dark secret leading to an unexpected catharsis.

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Kasha

Kasha is determined to start life from scratch, but the past is not ready to let him go so easily. Dangerous people follow him straight to the rehabilitation center, and from that moment Kasha has to go on the run. Returning to his hometown, he will try to save not only himself and his brother, […]

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Live in 5

An intern for a live cooking show production must fill in for a much bigger role than he signed up for.

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Marry

After a few drinks in the park, two friends wander the streets and stumble upon life’s toughest questions.

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Night

The dust of war keeps the eyes sleepless. Night brings peace and sleep to all the people in the broken town. Only the eyes of the mother of the missing child stay resilient. Night has to trick her into sleeping to save her soul.