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

Big George

Hank Gauda is one of the lucky ones: his gig as a George Clooney impersonator keeps him afloat as a working actor in New York. But after a pandemic and a divorce, he’s not as svelte as he once was, and his longtime agent unexpectedly drops him. His nine-year-old daughter, Evie, cannot understand why her […]

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Birthmarked

*Content Warning: Self-Harm Fatemeh, a 14-year-old girl with a birthmark on her left breast, is being forced by her father to marry a suitor at such young age. Being dissatisfied with this, she orchestrates a daring action to prevent this early marriage.

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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 […]

POSTED: Mar 17, 2023

Soft

Taking place over one summer, three adolescent queer friends become enraptured in the nightlife scene of underbelly Toronto, but their bond is tested when a friend of one of them goes missing.

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We Are Still Here

Ten leading Indigenous filmmakers interweave eight powerful tales to tell a sweeping story of hope and survival in the face of oppression and colonization, traversing 1000 years from the past to the present and future.

POSTED: Mar 13, 2023

Wild Music

A music producer gets a second chance in the music industry, thanks to some wealthy seniors and two girls who teach him to stop fearing technology!

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Your Friend, Anne

*DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE* A working artist begins to lose her mind while stuck at home with an illness.

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Silent World

SILENT WORLD is a creative exploration and amplification of the Covid-19 pandemic as experienced from the eyes of Signkid, a deaf-rapper in London. Imagine a deadly gas is killing people. No one explains in YOUR language how to stay alive.

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The Wolf Music Video

Stacy’s casual dinner party takes a dark turn as she is thrown headfirst into a PTSD episode, navigating the night trigger by trigger.