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: Mar 2, 2024

Blue Hour

Rene gets far more than she expected when she accepts a last minute photography gig taking portraits for a young woman. Upon meeting her client, Jaz, the true nature of Rene’s job comes into focus.

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Blue Sunshine

Aravind, a high school teacher, wants to transition from male to female while working for a school in a small town in South India. Aravind’s parents do not know that Aravind is already taking hormone treatment for the transition. When his parents force a marriage upon him due to their financial situation, Aravind gains courage […]

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Cross Country

Anthony intends to leave his small town for New York City, however, his god-fearing mother struggles to let him go.

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Cults

Catholic boarding school, 1970. Father De Monval is supervising a film projection when a young schoolboy sees something that will turn his life upside down…

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Fitting Descriptions

Dina is an middle-aged stage actor and a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults). Haunted by a past humiliation, she tries to jump-start her failing on-camera career with a rebrand: Dina’s agent orders her to solicit random passersby for first impressions of her. As she weathers the resulting IRL likes, comments and just plain indifference, Dina’s […]

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Give Us A Smile

A reimagining of the infamous seating of what would become one of the most recognizable pieces of art in history, the Mona Lisa. An agitated and financially stunted Leonardo da Vinci is seeking repayment for a previous commission. Unfortunately for Lisa del Giocondo, she is the price that is to be paid. It is a […]

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Hold to Dash

Neil Durst makes a living streaming his gaming skills to an audience of overstimulated, undersexed males. When he’s asked on a date by a female fan, Neil must leave his bedroom and take a plunge into the real world.

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I Don’t Fight the Dark as Well as I Used To

I Don’t Fight the Dark as Well as I Used To explores the emotional isolation my Grandfather experienced while taking care of my ailing Grandmother. I wanted to frame this isolation through the lens of the moon landing. Taking a community spectacle and grounding it in an evening of seclusion was my way of externalizing […]

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Last Winter

Prompted by his roommate, Ray’s sudden decision to move away, screenwriter Michal is faced with the bleak prospect of his own future, for maybe the first time. Unable to sleep, haunted by an unseen force in his closet, Michal turns his attention back to his story. Eventually going outside for a break, where he stumbles […]

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Loose Change

*Content Warning: Sexual Abuse The story of Skyler, a teen trafficking victim, is all too familiar, especially in areas of the Midwest, and scenarios depicted in “Loose Change” happen every day, right under our noses. Today is the day Skyler has decided to break free and they end up seeking help from an unlikely source. […]