2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Feb 20, 2025

Glitter Kiss

After discovering a brutally beaten drag queen Klaudijus, in his apartment building, homophobe Rolandas reluctantly takes him to the hospital and becomes his first response. As the police investigate and Klaudijus’ life hangs in the balance, Rolandas is forced to rethink his beliefs.

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Hearts Of Stone

*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm* In the heart of a bustling metropolis, Paula, a lonely street artist, entertains people as a living statue. She longs with an impossible love for Agatha, a stone sculpture next to which she can be found every day. One day, when reaching her familiar spot, she finds her stone companion replaced by […]

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Hag.

This story follows Reesa Crawford, a queer black woman from South Carolina who is having her first child with her wife, Khari. During this pregnancy, remnants of her past begin to torment her via the old urban legend of the boo hag. As this creature takes a toll on her mental and physical health and […]

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Maxxie LaWow: Drag Super-shero

When drag queens start disappearing, a shy young barista must summon his inner super-shero to rescue them ​from an ambitious evil drag queen bent on harvesting their magical anti-aging tears. —- NOTE: Project complete date is scheduled for June 7, 2024. Film will include full score and sub-titles for open or closed captions.

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High Diver

Since early childhood, Tuan and Felix have been inseparable. As they train to become Olympic high divers, however, their budding love for each other suffers under the weight of the competition. Professional sport is a harsh business, and Tuan will sacrifice everything for it … or will he?

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Lapse

A star competitive swimmer blacks out alone one night in the pool—the same pool a dead body is found in the next morning.

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HOLY HEAVÊNESS

The unbearable lightness of the death of loved ones… There are wounds in life that eat away at you like leprosy… The weight of the death of loved ones sometimes becomes so overwhelming that to get rid of this weight another birth is inevitable.

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IWYTK (I Want You To Know)

A film about friendship, road trips and the time we will never get back.

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Jedo’s Dead

When a young middle-eastern girl finds her grandfather dead, she is forced to grapple with the earthly rituals and spiritual loose-ends of loss.

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Locations

An American locations scout in France is haunted by his surroundings, while vying for approval from his expecting girlfriend’s mysterious parents.