2026 FESTIVALApril 8-18, 2026Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Mar 13, 2023

The Hours Before Sunrise

THE HOURS BEFORE SUNRISE tells the story of an elderly poet as he tries to complete his final manuscript, which he writes from the bottom of holes that he’s dug in his pock-marked backyard. He struggles to connect meaningfully to his work, to his daughter, and to the end of his life.

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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.

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This Wild Abyss

*WRITER/PRODUCER IN ATTENDANCE* A former cowboy turned janitor with an eighth-grade education, Milt Humason forms an unlikely friendship with astronomer Edwin Hubble and assists him at Mt. Wilson Observatory, a partnership that leads to their discovery that the universe is expanding.

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Unfinished Business

A surreal and lyrical reflection on a past relationship.

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Romeo and Juliet?

Romeo and Juliet?, a tragicomic melodrama, presents the personal stories of its actors on the background of the inception of a modern retro-noir adaptation of a classical work. Individual images composed of separate footage, which precedes the shooting of the film itself, use the detailed view of the actors’ performance to shatter the illusion of […]

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Roped

Mother and Daughter are roped for life by an eternal bond that heals and hurts, and that is perpetuated when Daughter becomes a Mother.

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Roses by Nolia Noon

This is the debut music video for Louisville band Nolia Noon with its song, “Roses.” The video features singer/guitarist Jared Foos as a young man who is left heartbroken when his longtime girlfriend leaves him for a rich guy. She has regrets but he moves on.

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Self Care

Self Care is a daytime horror. An otherworldly self-care guru seeks to heal a broken woman, but the woman’s cling to the material world risks resistance to her transformation.

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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.