2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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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.

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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.

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All-American Ruins: Nevele Grand Hotel

The Nevele Grand Resort in Ellenville, NY sits abandoned on 500+ acres near the foot of the Catskill Mountains of New York. What used to be a point of pride for Ulster County is now a painful, crumbling relic – with many stories to tell. For All-American Ruins creator Blake Pfeil, it is also a […]

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A Light That Doesn’t Dim

Sister Jones has a life-changing decision: to go home and disappoint her family or to continue as a Mormon missionary in Mexico and betray herself amidst various familial and cultural pressures.

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A Summer’s End Poem

Shortly before the end of the summer holidays, a country boy spends his savings on his dream of a city hairstyle – with surprising results. A story about bidding farewell to childhood and the poetic end of a summer.

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Alleyways

A teenage boy (Espiritu) is facing transphobia toward his best friend (Wohlwend Zegri) and has no idea how to come face-to-face with the situation.

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Amplified

*CONTENT WARNING: Sexual Abuse* Hind is a charming young Karate athlete with a hearing disability. After she’s subjected to a violating incident at the Karate center, Hind’s world gets distorted. The sensual narrative, accompanied by an authentic sonic experience, dives into what happens when safe spaces are shattered in the ugliest of ways. Through the […]

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An Old Friend

An imaginary friend (Jason Faunt) finds out his sole purpose is to bring happiness to his child, only to discover his child is a 90 year old man (Tom Skerritt) on his death bed

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6 AM

She is going to leave the country to continue on to higher education in Canada. Her family members are worried and act as if they have been already missing her. Before going to the airport, she attends a goodbye party at her friend’s house. Everyone is singing and having a good time when the morality […]

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Aspiration

Depressed, a young girl wanders the city, facing alone her despair. As she hits bottom, someone comes to meet her.