2026 FESTIVALApril 8-18, 2026Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Mar 2, 2024

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Maggy, a cashier at a gas station in the middle of Berlin, is confronted with everyday sexism, especially at night. When the next customer treats her disrespectfully, she decides to resist. What begins as rebellious fun gets increasingly out of control – at least for the guy.

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Beyond the Sea

Lady Casca, a drag queen in her sixties, is about to go on stage at her cabaret for the last time. The next day, retirement by the sea awaits her. But her son Thomas, whom she has not seen for a long time, interrupts the festivities. He has sad news to tell her.

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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 […]

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 Errand

When a young girl hitchhiking is picked up by a stranger, who ends up taking whom for a ride?

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The Final Hours of South U Pizza

*DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE* A mysterious wandering man recalls the last breathes of his favorite late night pizza joint in beautiful nostalgia before it is decimated to build a high rise apartment complex that to this day is still empty.