Annual East Lansing Film Festival

About the Event

Join us for the 27th Annual East Lansing Film Festival!!

Schedule of Events:

1:30 pm: Chicken For Linda! (Linda Veut Du Poulet) - Directed By Sébastien Laudenbach, Chiara Malta

A Loving Mom, Paulette, Who Feels Guilty After Unfairly Punishing Her Daughter Linda And Would Do Anything To Make It Up To Her. She Sets Off To Make Chicken With Peppers, Even Though She Doesn't Know How To Cook. Animated In French With English Subtitles. Winner, 8 Film Festival Awards. Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer - 100%

3:30 pm: Short Documentary Films

My Father's Name
Directed By Susanna Styron-20 Minutes.
Years After Lee Ed Frazier's Death, His Daughter, Jan, Made A Shocking Discovery: As A Young Man Her Father Had Participated In A Lynching. As She Attempts To Uncover The Truth About What Happened, Jan Learns That This Specific Lynching Was Iconic In American History.

Birdfeeder
Directed By Daniel Feighery-11.5 Minutes.
This Documentary Is Not Just About Birds; It's A Visual And Emotional Exploration Of The Human Connection To The Urban Wild, The Challenges Faced In A Time Of Hardship, And The Profound Impact Of The Natural World On The Human Soul.

It's For You: Ephemeral Art and The Death Of The Public Phone
Directed By Ryan Steven Green-29 Minutes.
A Disparate Group Of Los Angeles Street Artists Give New Life To The Dwindling Remnants Of The City's Public Payphones By Repurposing Them As Canvases For Unique Expressions Of A Moment In Time.

Bobby Up The Block
Directed By Phil Garrison-17 Minutes
Everybody Has A Story. Bobby Just Happens To Have Lots Of Them!

A Man Who Knits
Directed By Ian Powell-6 Minutes.
Avid Male Knitting Enthusiast Gene Throwe Keeps The Spirit Of His Late Grandmother Alive, Overcoming Gender Stereotypes And Finding Purpose And Deep Connection Within The Seemingly Mundane Practice Of Needlework.

Magic John: America's Pharoah
Directed By Heath Daniels-16 Minutes.
As A Black Child Growing Up In Segregated Alabama In 1964, Sammy Lee Hendrix Was Overwhelmed With Emotion When He Saw Sidney Poitier Win An Academy Award For Lilies Of The Field. The Film Inspired Him To Dream Of Becoming A Hollywood Filmmaker. Thirty-Five Years Of Living On The Streets Of Los Angeles Has Not Deterred Sammy's Dream.

Those Next To Us
Directed By Bernhard Hetzenauer-30 Minutes.
In Breathtaking Words, The Mexican Germán López Rosales Describes His Experiences Of A Human Smuggling Operation From The Us Border Town Of Laredo To San Antonio, Texas. Locked Up Inside The Cargo Area Of A Tractor-Trailer, 10 Of The 39 Migrants Died That Day Due To The Intense Heat And Lack Of Water.

6:15 pm: The Teacher Who Promised The Sea - Directed By Patricia Font

The Buried Memories Of The Spanish Civil War Become Unearthed As A Woman Searches For The Remains Of Her Grandfather's Father And Discovers The Story Of An Idealistic Young Teacher From Tarragona. He Transformed The Austere, Religious One-Room Classroom And The Uneducated, Incommunicative Students Into A Vital Group Of Inquisitive Children. Winner, Audience Award, Dc International Film Festival.

8:45 pm: Shorts Program 1

Just One Last Thing
Directed By Oswmer Louis -18 Min.
A Man Hires A Contract Killer To Help Him Commit Suicide; However, His Procrastination Is Too Much.

Dear Daughter
Directed By Vanessa Neff, Rob Underhill-7 Min.
A Mother's Tribute To Her Daughter, And A Reflection On How The Love For Her Evolved Throughout The Years.

Darcine's Day
Directed By Aaron Goffman-16 Min.
Darcine, Divorced And Jobless, Strives To Thrive And Survive In Post-Pandemic Los Angeles.

Collage
Directed By Marius Conrotto -10 Min.
Two Museum Staff Observe A Couple Flirting, Or Are They?

Broken
Directed By Patrick Smith-4 Min.
The Broken Will Slowly Decay, Wasting Away Into Shattered Bits.

The Void
Directed By Sashwat Mohta-17 Min.
A Once Brilliant Teenager Seeks Family Support In His Battle With A Crippling Addiction.

Father's Mountains
Directed By Xiaojun Tan -11 Min.
"Beyond The Mountains Is Another Mountain!" Answers The Father To His Curious Son.

Dark Roads
Directed By Jeremiah Kipp-6 Min.
A Couple Are Stranded On A Dark Vacant Country Road. They Are Disparate In Reaction To The Fear And Tension.

Cycle
Directed By Nicole Denise White-9 Min.
A Young Woman Spends The Night At A Laundromat Struggling To Wash Out A Blood Stain After An Abortion.

Camping In Paradise
Directed By Eirik Tveiten-23 Min.
When Their Car Breaks Down, A Couple Must Spend A Night At A Nudist Campsite, Exposing Their Differences.

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