2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Mar 13, 2023

Sisters

Willow’s a troubled young woman being watched. She faces the shadows in the dark fearing for her life. Will the sister who abandoned her years ago come to her rescue before it’s too late?

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Supermarket Affairs

A Vietnamese immigrant mother and daughter in the US argue over how to honor the late patriarch as they shop for his second death anniversary, and inadvertently involve a handsome stranger at the local Asian supermarket.

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The Banality

A small town reels from the sudden and mysterious death of “Feral Boy,” a local legend since his discovery in the woods as a child. Father Moss, a priest with a loose grip on the faith, attempts to counsel the forlorn couple that raised the boy. As the answers are revealed, he finds parallels between […]

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THE CHOSEN ONE

*PRODUCER IN ATTENDANCE* *Content Warning: Self-Harm After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, a young Hasidic man experiences a nightmarish transformation that leads him right back to where he started. Over the course of one painful night, Eli Eisenstein will come to realize that it’s much easier to shave your beard than to shed […]

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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.

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On/Off

An Afrikaans-speaking man helps his elderly German neighbour in a time of need, despite a language barrier. In the process, he learns volumes about himself.