2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Oct 14, 2021

The Body of a Rational Creature

This experimental narrative shows how slut shaming and rape myths are harmful to women in contemporary society. *This movie contains depictions of sexual violence.*

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Dancing in my Sadness

A dark hip-hop song and its animated music video that tells the common story of a traffic stop going downhill, involving a young Black man and a White police officer. Casual Affairs is a French electronic music duo formed in 2018 by two friends with backgrounds in arts, design and cinema. For their first single, […]

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Hudson Falls

The secrets of a small upstate town that revolve around an eccentric scientist (William Sadler) begin to unravel when a private eye from the city (Richard Kind) takes on a seemingly mundane job in an effort to rekindle a relationship with his ex wife (Jessica Hecht). Filmed during the COVID pandemic , the first week […]

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Photalgia

An older artist is affected by a strange light at his studio that drives him to do dark things.

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Lipstick Jodi – do/SAY

Official music video for “do/SAY,” the first single off Lipstick Jodi’s sophomore album “More Like Me.”

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Summer Flings & Funerals

“At the end of summer, I killed this man. For loving both girls, and hurting them too.” A memoir of cheating, heartbreak, and inevitable death.

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Electric Jesus

It’s the summer of 1986. Erik (Andrew Eakle) is the shy, quiet type—but far more passionate than most teenagers when it comes to God and rock-n-roll. His dream comes true when he is asked to run sound for his favorite band, 316—a Christian hair metal band made up of older kids from his church. After […]

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The Book of Ruth

Margo, Dan, Jordan, and Lizzy visit grandmother Ruth for Passover. Later that night, Lizzy finds Ruth watching a midnight news story about Anne Frank’s death. Lizzy then confesses to have known a related secret for years and Ruth is left with some explaining to do.

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Bone Cage

Jamie works operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured animals, and rescues those he can. Jamie’s desire to break free from this world is thwarted by the very environment and circumstance he’s trying to escape.

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Black Water

Jenn appears to be a normal teenage girl. Unknown to her friends, she has a disorder that causes her to pull out most of her hair. She hides it from the world through a daily ritual of putting on black hair powder each morning. One day at a high school graduation pool party, she is […]