2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

Updates

You heard it here first! Check out the latest Capital City Film Festival announcements below.
POSTED: Feb 20, 2025

Droplets Dance

After the rain, puddles form on the ground. The puddles, like mirrors, gradually take shape. A group of water spirits dances joyfully, flowing down the stairs, through every corner of the town, converging into a river. The river flows past the lower eyelid, slides over the eyelashes, and crystal-clear tears fall.

POSTED:

Chimera: Phylogenesis

Can AAPI women in solidarity, as connected foreign debris, evolve into a new creature – a Chimera? The performance film explores these questions through an immersive sound/optics environment.

POSTED:

Father’s Son

*CONTENT WARNING: Sexual Abuse* Yotam Regev, a teenage boy and the son of the town’s successful Mayor, has to choose: to tell the truth about his father, or lie and succeed him.

POSTED:

Circle Circle Circle Circle

Four grieving friends gather to release the past year and their night takes a wildly unexpected turn.

POSTED:

Do Not Feed the Pigeons

An orgiastic mutant monster post-modern pop art pigeon-fueled horror apocalypse!!!

POSTED:

Breasts Not Included

An autobiographical short film about a mastectomy journey. And the questions that follow about how to define beauty, femininity, and strength.

POSTED:

Bring Them Home

Bring Them Home tells the story of a small group of Blackfoot people and their mission to establish the first wild buffalo herd on their ancestral territory since the species’ near-extinction a century ago, an act that would restore the land, re-enliven traditional culture and bring much needed healing to their community.

POSTED:

Face Value

Avi, a fledgling ticket scalper, juggles his strained relationships, a special date, and floor seats to the hottest Knicks game.

POSTED:

Crossing Lake Erie

Local swimmer Bryan Huffman sets out on a journey to raise money to provide kids with swim lessons by swimming across Lake Erie.

POSTED:

Das Feuilleton: Seemann (Sailor)

Music video for the song “Seemann (Sailor)” of German band “Das Feuilleton”: A strange TV cooking show turns into a battle. No one wants to be cooked, right?