2025 FESTIVALApril 2-12, 2025Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Mar 2, 2024

Lipstick Jodi – Now That She’s Down

K, the lead singer of Lipstick Jodi is out on the town when they lock eyes with a stranger. One thing leads to another which leads to a menage a troi depicted with fruity euphemisms, bedroom montages, and performance footage set to the single “Now That She’s Down.”

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Down by the Riverside

In the summer of 1969, the world-renowned folk musician Pete Seeger built a boat and launched a movement. An intimate portrait of Pete, his spouse Toshi, and the participatory grassroots community they anchored in the Hudson Valley for over forty years, Down by the Riverside tells the story of how an unconventional campaign to save […]

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Anything else?

Maggy, a cashier at a gas station in the middle of Berlin, is confronted with everyday sexism, especially at night. When the next customer treats her disrespectfully, she decides to resist. What begins as rebellious fun gets increasingly out of control – at least for the guy.

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Kombucha!

Kombucha! is a story about a musician trapped in an office job he couldn’t care less about. Luke dreams of being on stage while doing B2B marketing work that feels completely meaningless. His coworkers all sip a red kombucha beverage and seem to have found purpose in this place. When his boss catches him daydreaming […]

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Living Reality

A tonal shift occurs inside the world of an American sitcom resulting in the disruption of the show’s rhythm. As it evolves, a looming presence of banality casts a shadow on the show’s bright lights and bubbly personalities. Moments of vulnerability and honesty begin to seep into a world filled with shallow conflicts and punchlines. […]

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Marqueetown

No one fights to preserve a multiplex, but some people will risk everything to save a marquee. Through booms and busts, Delft Theatres Inc. – and its innovative gem, The Nordic – endured in Marquette Michigan for almost 100 years, even as the world changed endlessly around them. Local kid Bernie Rosendahl’s modern crusade to […]

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Beyond the Sea

Lady Casca, a drag queen in her sixties, is about to go on stage at her cabaret for the last time. The next day, retirement by the sea awaits her. But her son Thomas, whom she has not seen for a long time, interrupts the festivities. He has sad news to tell her.

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Miwene

Shot over ten years within a remote indigenous community in the Amazon, Anita Yeti shares her journey from a quiet teenager into a confident young mother at a critical turning point for her culture and rainforest. Steeped in the long oral tradition of Waorani storytelling, Anita narrates her own story, giving an intimate account of […]

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Big George

Hank Gauda is one of the lucky ones: his gig as a George Clooney impersonator keeps him afloat as a working actor in New York. But after a pandemic and a divorce, he’s not as svelte as he once was, and his longtime agent unexpectedly drops him. His nine-year-old daughter, Evie, cannot understand why her […]

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Birthmarked

*Content Warning: Self-Harm Fatemeh, a 14-year-old girl with a birthmark on her left breast, is being forced by her father to marry a suitor at such young age. Being dissatisfied with this, she orchestrates a daring action to prevent this early marriage.