2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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You heard it here first! Check out the latest Capital City Film Festival announcements below.
POSTED: Mar 21, 2024

First Disappearances

“first disappearances” takes us on the perilous journey of the first 24 hours after arrest.

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Fresh

In a world where criminals make the rules an innocent boy is out to beat them at their own game.

POSTED: Mar 20, 2024

Jailhouse to Milhouse

*Content Warnings: Self-Harm and Sexual Abuse This is the courageous journey of Pamela Hayden, voice of the plucky, resilient Milhouse on “The Simpsons”: After surviving an abusive boarding school and juvenile jail, as well as other setbacks, Pamela now speaks to teen girls about overcoming obstacles and turning their dreams into reality. Her story is […]

POSTED: Mar 18, 2024

Underneath: Children of the Sun

A captivating and mind-bending Afrofuturist story that embarks on a breathtaking journey of galactic politics, heritage, and destiny. In 1857, a slave in Little Dixie, Missouri (U.S) is thrust into an intergalactic crises after encountering an alien from a crashed spaceship. UNDERNEATH: Children of  the Sun is David Kirkman’s feature film debut.

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Floodplain

A look at the high-risk floodplains in Southeast Austin, inaccurate maps, and aging infrastructure that failed the residents in Onion Creek during a catastrophic flood in 2013. Through personal accounts, residents recall the once-idyllic neighborhood, the nightmarish flood, and their struggles to rebuild. Nearly a decade after the event, residents share the memories of the […]

POSTED: Mar 3, 2024

Rocket Coma – The End of the World

The End of the World” was recorded in home studios in Fayetteville AR, “Dangerfield” at American Recording Studio in Memphis, Cookie Animation was tasked in bringing “The End of the World” to an Animated story. The space race is here and mars is in sight. Only one can lay claim to it through “fair” competition. […]

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Bird Hours

In a dystopian near-future, a young couple slowly realizes their VR work-from-home routine is draining the life out of their relationship and must decide whether to lose their humanity or break free.

POSTED: Mar 2, 2024

The Rooms

Cast in a green light, a long corridor seems never ending in sight. Jun-sang faces multiple rooms in this long corridor, meeting various and bizarre people from door to door.

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The Shepherd of Clouds

Tobia, a 9-year-old boy, every afternoon after school goes to the mountain to reach Aurelio, his grandfather, who brings his five sheep to graze every day. The boy and his grandfather will find themselves sharing a moment of frailty that will change the course of events forever.

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The Smith

“The Smith” is a non-verbal short film based on the Brothers Grimm. The narrative peeks into a world invisible to the human eye. A skilled smith is tempted to sell his soul by the forces of evil in exchange for endless wealth. The bargain states that the devil will come to him in three years, […]