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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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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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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Ponce de Leon

Exiled to a remote villa to spend the summer with her great aunt, a disconnected teen girl uncovers a dark secret surrounding the mysterious fountain flowing in the property’s gardens.

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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 […]

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Rainbbit

“Noise is life, and so is silence” is the theme. The protagonist, Rebi, is a rabbit boy with social anxiety. Various accidents disrupt his life rhythm, and he ultimately chooses to remain in solitude, finding comfort in being alone.

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Radiance

Awakening at dawn, a sunflower is attracted by the sparkling dewdrops before it. On its journey to collect the dewdrops, it encounters the sun. Mesmerized by the sunlight, the sunflower spends a brief time with the sun before it gradually fades away with the arrival of night. Determined, the sunflower embarks on a quest to […]

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Sweetsamsara

Every little piece of dough has the mission of becoming a donut from the moment it is born. Only donuts are good adults and a symbol of greatness! Under the influence of this kind of education, little dough Dobby and his classmates followed the teacher full of longing to participate in the “coming of age […]

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Sandra

“SANDRA” is a surreal comedy that follows Jane (Alison Banowsky) whose banal and predictable life with her boyfriend (Andrew Knox) is upended when she finds out that a mysterious and erratic woman has been living in her basement. The film is about getting unstuck, learning to trust your intuition, and most importantly, letting your freaky […]

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Strings

Sally joins a dream summer trip to Sicily with her childhood bestie Poppy, hoping to re-connect before they start university. Confronted with Poppy’s volatile new friend Alex, Sally is strangely drawn to the traditional puppets decorating their villa, and the strings that bind the two friends threaten to rip them apart. ‘Strings’ is produced by […]

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Planet Pleasure

A popstar performs on a distant watery planet, or is it all just moistbreezy’s fantasy?