2026 FESTIVALApril 8-18, 2026Lansing, MI

Updates

You heard it here first! Check out the latest Capital City Film Festival announcements below.
POSTED: Feb 20, 2025

Locations

An American locations scout in France is haunted by his surroundings, while vying for approval from his expecting girlfriend’s mysterious parents.

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Lost & Found

Two sisters struggle with how to take care of a red giant doll who turns out to be their ill father.

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Mawtini (My Homeland)

Together Nawal, a young Palestinian woman, and Tanya, an older Indigenous woman, start a guerrilla garden on the lawn of their apartment building and battle middle management to make it to harvest.

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Mélange

Two estranged men reconnect in a jazz bar where they embark on a forbidden dance.

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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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EITR

Grinding away at the inherited family business, Mohamed works tirelessly making sales of knock-off perfume, while living as a knock-off version of his true self. His doting mother Marwa brings him lunch everyday and sets up chay dates with potential romantic interests (and their families) what seems like every night. Inside of this monotony Mohamed […]

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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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Firebreak

Brandon and Royal are among a small group of firefighters in California who were trained while incarcerated and managed to break through and become professional firefighters post-release, but that’s not the story for most of their peers. After securing their own careers, they decided to take matters into their own hands and start their own […]

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Castling

A young man, disappointed in human relations, moves into a tower in the middle of nowhere. However the pleasant solitude gives in to dreams of intimacy, but perhaps for the last time.

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Cow Killer

Naser’s sick cow is about to die, but it lives due to Khazar’s (his granddaughter) wish for it to be healed. Naser recognizes this as a miracle and goes after other sick cows, along with Khazar, to repeat the miracle.