2026 FESTIVALApril 8-18, 2026Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Mar 10, 2026

Edie Arnold is a Loser

Timid Catholic school dork Edie Arnold is dragged to a punk show where a mishap lands her on stage behind the drums. She’s mortified… but a natural. Convinced by her best friend, she secretly forms a band called The NunDead. Her newfound confidence leads to a date with the altar boy but also a fight […]

POSTED: Mar 7, 2026

Wood Street

Two unhoused men turned community leaders— John and LaMonté —organize their neighbors in the face of displacement, addiction, and a failing social system. Their story is a powerful testament to resilience, solidarity, and the right to remain.

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Warren King: King of Cardboard

Warren King transforms cardboard into sculptural reflections of his Chinese-American family’s immigration and his path from engineer to artist. Preparing for a Wisconsin homecoming show, King explores belonging through art.

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Run, Hide, Fight: Growing Up Under the Gun

Gun violence is the leading cause of death for American children and teens. “Run, Hide, Fight: Growing Up Under the Gun” is a new 30-minute documentary about how gun violence affects young Americans, from PBS News Student Reporting Labs in collaboration with 14 student journalists from five U.S. cities: Philadelphia, Oakland, Washington D.C., Nashville, and […]

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Reclaiming Bear River

Over 150 years after suffering the worst massacre in U.S. history, the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has purchased their ancestral homeland — called Wuda Ogwa, or Bear River — with a vision to return it back to nature.

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Our Knotted Gun

Our Knotted Gun, the first docuseries on gun violence, takes the mass shooting that occurred at Michigan State University on February 13, 2023 as its entry point for an exploration of this epidemic in all its complexity over a period of three years. It does so by documenting a range of responses by a diverse […]

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Artists in Residence

Purchasing a house together in 1950s NYC, three female artists–Lois Dodd, Eleanor Magid and Louise Kruger–defied societal norms and prioritized their art over traditional roles as wives and mothers. Through interviews with the women, now in their 90s, as well as their grown children, the film explores the emotional complexities of being an artist and […]

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A Sad and Beautiful World

In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino and Yasmina find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible choice between love and survival, they must decide if they want to build a family and chart a path to happiness in Lebanon, despite the […]

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Paranormal Activity

Soon after moving into a suburban tract home, Katie (Katie Featherston) and Micah (Micah Sloat) become increasingly disturbed by what appears to be a supernatural presence. Hoping to capture evidence of it on film, they set up video cameras in the house but are not prepared for the terrifying events that follow.

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Turn Up the Bass

A look into the vibrant world of Troi Lee, known as DJ Chinaman, who pioneered the UK’s Deaf rave scene. Through his creation of ‘Deaf Rave,’ Lee has spent two decades creating spaces where music, vibration, and community intersect. Made by a predominantly Deaf crew, the film examines how Deaf communities experience and create electronic […]