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 13, 2023

Silent World

SILENT WORLD is a creative exploration and amplification of the Covid-19 pandemic as experienced from the eyes of Signkid, a deaf-rapper in London. Imagine a deadly gas is killing people. No one explains in YOUR language how to stay alive.

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Only I Can Hear

In search of a place between two disparate worlds, three teenage Children of Deaf Adults (CODAs), come of age in the vibrant, loud Deaf community. Grappling with issues of prejudices, leading double lives and familial bonds, this documentary asks what it means to exist between different cultures and how you can define your sense of identity.

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Louis’ Shoes

Louis is an eight-year old boy starting a new school. With the help of the teacher, he gets ready to introduce his class by removing his shoes. He explains how this makes him feel safe and gives the class an insight into his internal world, sharing his favorite hobbies as well as the things he […]

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Romeo and Juliet?

Romeo and Juliet?, a tragicomic melodrama, presents the personal stories of its actors on the background of the inception of a modern retro-noir adaptation of a classical work. Individual images composed of separate footage, which precedes the shooting of the film itself, use the detailed view of the actors’ performance to shatter the illusion of […]

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Roped

Mother and Daughter are roped for life by an eternal bond that heals and hurts, and that is perpetuated when Daughter becomes a Mother.

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Running in Circles

A quarter falls from a woman’s purse and spins on the floor. The arms of the clock spin on the wall. The store clerk stocks a shelf. Sometimes he stares at the clock and watches the time, waiting for his shift to end. It’s a typical day on the job. Except, the boss is here […]

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Roses by Nolia Noon

This is the debut music video for Louisville band Nolia Noon with its song, “Roses.” The video features singer/guitarist Jared Foos as a young man who is left heartbroken when his longtime girlfriend leaves him for a rich guy. She has regrets but he moves on.

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Self Care

Self Care is a daytime horror. An otherworldly self-care guru seeks to heal a broken woman, but the woman’s cling to the material world risks resistance to her transformation.

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Time Traveling Through Time

A wannabe film director becomes embroiled in a battle against the laws of time and space when his attempts to recreate the iconic black and white, photograph-only, time travel film, La Jetée, spiral out of control. Narrated by Julian Richings (The Witch; X-Men; The Umbrella Academy) and starring Skyler Caleb (The Office, Two and a […]

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Sisters

Willow’s a troubled young woman being watched. She faces the shadows in the dark fearing for her life. Will the sister who abandoned her years ago come to her rescue before it’s too late?