2026 FESTIVALApril 8-18, 2026Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Feb 20, 2025

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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Amplified

*CONTENT WARNING: Sexual Abuse* Hind is a charming young Karate athlete with a hearing disability. After she’s subjected to a violating incident at the Karate center, Hind’s world gets distorted. The sensual narrative, accompanied by an authentic sonic experience, dives into what happens when safe spaces are shattered in the ugliest of ways. Through the […]

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An Old Friend

An imaginary friend (Jason Faunt) finds out his sole purpose is to bring happiness to his child, only to discover his child is a 90 year old man (Tom Skerritt) on his death bed

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Aspiration

A young girl walks quickly along a fast lane. She has a sports bag on her shoulder. In voice-over, we hear her speak about the questions asked by a psychologist and the answers she gave. She runs to a wagon of a train that has stopped at the station, but its doors close, refusing her […]

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A Light That Doesn’t Dim

Sister Jones has a life-changing decision: to go home and disappoint her family or to continue as a Mormon missionary in Mexico and betray herself amidst various familial and cultural pressures.

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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.

POSTED: Mar 18, 2024

Underneath: Children of the Sun

A captivating and mind-bending Afrofuturist story that embarks on a breathtaking journey of galactic politics, heritage, and destiny. In 1857, a slave in Little Dixie, Missouri (U.S) is thrust into an intergalactic crises after encountering an alien from a crashed spaceship. UNDERNEATH: Children of  the Sun is David Kirkman’s feature film debut.