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.
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Stargazing. A dialogue on creation between serial silence-killers

Lying in total darkness, two young immortals discuss whether it is time to create the World once again. A cosmogonic screwball comedy.

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Odyssey express

Lei, who was about to transfer to a new school, felt lost about the future. By a stroke of fate, he boarded the Odyssey Express, a symbol of the unknown, and embarked on an adventure beyond imagination.

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Reincarnate

A short documentary about a woman who loses her mother to cancer weeks before giving birth to her first child.

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The Compatriots

Javi, an undocumented immigrant facing imminent deportation, unexpectedly reunites with his long-lost best friend, Hunter, a vivacious bachelor seeking deeper connections. Together, they embark on a heartfelt journey to prevent Javi’s expulsion from the only country he has ever called home.

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Revolutionary Chic

A Fashion Student finds new direction, in the aftermath of the Murder of George Floyd

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The Concert

*CONTENT WARNING: Domestic Violence* Farrah and Lisa hang out in Angie’s basement, waiting on her dad to give them a ride to their first big rock concert. Safe in their warm, wood paneled hang-out, they talk about boys and even rehearse their own fledging metal band – The Giant Feminist Electric Mares! But their fun […]

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Shaped

“SHAPED” is an animation about modern life phenomena. The protagonist, Shanshan, enters a glass cup, experiencing various degrees of influence and uncontrollable changes. After a brief escape, he still chooses to return to this cycle

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Something in the Water

Five water justice advocates discuss how Milwaukee’s Black communities are disproportionately being lead poisoned, and the debilitating effects it has on residents’ health, with hopes to see equitable change that will heal the water and Black resident’s relationship with it.

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Pentaclub (The Club of Five)

The year is 1968. Five teenage boys dream of running a movie theater in which they will not show pro-war films. One summer afternoon Giò, Delfo, Max, Ricky and Paolo learn to become trusted friends, indispensable to one another. A coming-of-age, adventure film about friendship, one with small but large rebellious acts that signal the […]

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The Accidental Spy

Days after 9/11, Blerim Skoro was recruited from a Manhattan prison by the CIA. For over a decade, he was America’s infidel mole, roaming the Middle East as a spy deep inside al-Qaeda. Blerim lived in constant danger amongst terrorists, leaking intelligence to the US government in the desperate hope of getting a Green Card […]