2026 FESTIVALApril 8-18, 2026Lansing, MI

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POSTED: Mar 7, 2026

What We Carry

Amid the quiet tension of a rural home, a boy searches for tenderness with a dad who refuses to help grow it. What We Carry is a haunting portrait of love, loss, and the things we inherit when words can’t be spoken.

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Tomato Soup

Is one night enough to say goodbye? Tomato Soup follows Dodd, a freshly signed baseball player struggling to say goodbye to his hometown, desperate for a reason to stay.

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The Third Dream

A dreamer resists interrogation by a relentless doctor determined to extract the truth about his dream by coercive use of psychoanalysis. As pressure deepens, memories are altered, erased, and rewritten at will. With no escape from the authority’s reach, he realizes the truth was never his to protect, and confession was inevitable from the beginning.

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The Translator

Roya left her job to care for her Alzheimer’s-stricken father-in-law and works from home as a translator. One day, he leaves the house due to her negligence. When her husband returns, Roya pretends he’s asleep in his room.

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Sun Never Again

Vid, perceived by his son Dule as the greatest hero in the world, is deeply troubled by the looming presence of an expansive ore mine, threatening their home and way of life. While Vid grapples with the reality of the situation, his concerns are mostly hidden from his young son, Dule, who remains blissfully unaware […]

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Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up

The Clifford family hopes to start a new life by selling their dilapidated, impoverished farm. But when the discovery of an endangered bird on the property threatens to collapse the sale, the son Andy must decide whether to make the bird’s presence known or to shoot, shovel, and shut up.

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Robbers

Inspired by a viral theft trend, a wannabe musician schemes to afford studio time by convincing his bassist to burglarize a small business, but someone else might have the same idea.

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Place under the sun

A talented pianist and his 8-year-old son struggle to find a place to sell vegetables at the biggest market in Moldova’s 2000′. When the father seems to give up under the burden of his precarious existence, a gesture from his son brings new hope.

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Octopus

A young boy’s imagination begins to blur the lines of reality, leaving the adults around him uncertain about what’s real. As his uncanny abilities begin to grow, they’re forced to ask: is it a gift—or a curse?

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Metal

A man and his pregnant girlfriend drive through an apocalyptic forest where demonic threats are only kept at bay with the blasting of heavy metal.