2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Mar 6, 2025

Eraserhead

Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newborn mutant child.

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Weave a dream

A human girl lives with a furry doll, enjoying happy and warm times until she accidentally loses a button from the doll’s body. Despite her efforts to repair it, the doll’s cotton keeps leaking out, and its body gradually becomes tattered. Eventually, the doll’s cotton runs out, disappearing from the girl’s world. Our daily lives […]

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Who am I?

The protagonist, a popular actress, unexpectedly encounters a strange stray cat in an alley, leading to a magical journey.

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The Journey of White Sesame

On the table lies a half-eaten sesame pancake; a sesame seed, shaken loose by chewing, falls to the ground. When it awakens, it finds itself in a space resembling a mirrored sky. Filled with curiosity, it explores its surroundings and encounters a humanoid simulation simulator with a hole in its chest, filled with colorful liquid. […]

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Transylvanie

*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm* Ewa is a 10-year-old girl living in a high building in a quiet town. She’s an odd, lonely child and for good reason: she’s convinced of being a vampire. Fascinated by Hugo, 15, she dreams of turning him into a vampire too, so that she can overcome her loneliness. When Ewa opens […]

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Ponce de Leon

Exiled to a remote villa to spend the summer with her great aunt, a disconnected teen girl uncovers a dark secret surrounding the mysterious fountain flowing in the property’s gardens.

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Radiance

Awakening at dawn, a sunflower is attracted by the sparkling dewdrops before it. On its journey to collect the dewdrops, it encounters the sun. Mesmerized by the sunlight, the sunflower spends a brief time with the sun before it gradually fades away with the arrival of night. Determined, the sunflower embarks on a quest to […]

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Sweetsamsara

Every little piece of dough has the mission of becoming a donut from the moment it is born. Only donuts are good adults and a symbol of greatness! Under the influence of this kind of education, little dough Dobby and his classmates followed the teacher full of longing to participate in the “coming of age […]

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Maxxie LaWow: Drag Super-shero

When drag queens start disappearing, a shy young barista must summon his inner super-shero to rescue them ​from an ambitious evil drag queen bent on harvesting their magical anti-aging tears.

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Hearts Of Stone

*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm* In the heart of a bustling metropolis, Paula, a lonely street artist, entertains people as a living statue. She longs with an impossible love for Agatha, a stone sculpture next to which she can be found every day. One day, when reaching her familiar spot, she finds her stone companion replaced by […]