2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Feb 20, 2025

The Forgotten: Sustainable Clean Energy for the Brazilian Amazon

“The Forgotten” is a documentary short showcasing the hard work and research of the team behind The Convergence for Innovative Energy Solutions project funded by the National Science Foundation under their Growing Convergence Research (GCR) program. Headquartered out of the Michigan State University in Michigan, the convergence team’s goal is to deliver transformative advances in […]

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The Yellow Sponge is the Dish Sponge

Do we really need to wash sheets every week? Why would you ever have to clean a shower head? What is the difference between the blue sponge and the yellow sponge? These are the questions that haunt Jason. He doesn’t understand the world’s obsession (and his husband Erik’s obsession) with cleanliness. So, on the day […]

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The Invisible Mammal

Against the backdrop of the sixth mass extinction, an all-woman team of biologists set out to save bats from a deadly fungal disease, but when the COVID-19 pandemic interrupts their work, they are sent down a path of discovery that illuminates the connections between bat conservation and the spread of infectious disease.

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Thinkle

An ordinary man’s journey in search of his inner well-being.

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The Gold Ones

After weeks of anticipation, the time has finally come for John to go over Jasmines house, but first he has to make a stop to pick something up for their special night.

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The Palestine Exception

As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the “Palestine exception”–are shattered. This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the […]

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This is Jan

Set in the conservative world of the 1950s, Jan checks into a hotel seeking to escape the outside world. Once alone, they are free to shed the identity society has imposed upon them. Jan embraces the chance to explore who they truly believe they are. As they relish this new identity, a surge of confidence […]

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The Prospect

When high school senior Jerry Vanetti gets rejected from every college he applied to, he hatches a scheme to pose as an elite baseball prospect in order to trick a school into giving him an athletic scholarship…despite the fact that he’s never played a sport in his life. From bribing the AV Club to create […]

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Toxic Art

Acid mine drainage is a pervasive problem, poisoning streams and killing wildlife, in American Appalachia. The technology and funding to remove these pollutants and bring life back to streams just didn’t exist, that is until fine art painter, John Sabraw rallied a team to address the issue in their local stream and develop a breakthrough […]

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Treadmill

Dimitra, a nearly 50-year-old woman living with her manipulative elderly mother, Rea, faces a breaking point when she attempts to install a treadmill in her bedroom.