2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Feb 20, 2025

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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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.

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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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Geezers

The “Geezer Happy Hour” is Ann Arbor’s hottest event – especially for the over 70 crowd. Every Friday, from 6p to 9p, a graying generation pull on their dance shoes and rock out to a live band like its 1968. At the center of it all is Randy Tessier. Not only does he organize the […]

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Lost & Found

Two sisters struggle with how to take care of a red giant doll who turns out to be their ill father.

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Lover

This story tells about the relationship between a companion robot, ALICE, and her owner, Hana. Hana, suffering from depression, often releases her stress on ALICE, causing the robot to frequently malfunction. ALICE begins to question her own emotions and purpose, but ultimately chooses to believe that her love for Hana is real. After Hana’s suicide, […]

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In Exile

A short film exploring the US nuclear legacy in the Pacific through the lens of members of the Marshallese community in Arkansas. Moved from their islands by the US for a series of nuclear tests in Bikini Atoll commencing in 1946, these Pacific Islanders remain in exile 78 years later.

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Mawtini (My Homeland)

Together Nawal, a young Palestinian woman, and Tanya, an older Indigenous woman, start a guerrilla garden on the lawn of their apartment building and battle middle management to make it to harvest.

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Lumen

It has been raining heavily for months and the sixth wave is depressing humanity. In this prevailing darkness, Claude, 70 years old, compulsively buys lamps online to break his solitude and bring light into his life, at any cost.