Capital City Film Festival: What you need to know, schedules, times, locations

Mike Hughes

Sun, March 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM UTC

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Capital City Film Festival: What you need to know, schedules, times, locations

Here are details of the Capital City Film Festival. Check www.capitalcityfilmfest.com for late changes: Also, you can reserve tickets at the website. That might be important for some of the free events and ones in smaller locations, such as the Robin Theatre.

The basics

When:April 2-12.
Where:Central United Methodist Church, 215 N. Capitol; Stage One, 2200 Lake Lansing Road; Robin Theatre, 1105 S. Washington Ave.; Impression 5 Science Center, 200 Museum Drive, and its expansion (the surveyors museum at 220 Museum Drive site); The Avenue, 2021 E. Michigan Ave.
Tickets:Except where noted, they're $5 at the door. The website also has all-access packages for $50 and $100. Food and beverages are on sale; there are no water bottles sold, but bring you own and fill up at the water fountain.

Opening and closing films

"OBEX," 6 p.m. April 2, Central United Methodist Church; $10.

"Firebreak," 7:30 p.m. April 12, Central United Methodist Church; $5.

Parties and/or music

Opening mixer, 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, Central United Methodist Church; free.
Premiere party, 6-10 p.m. Thursday, Central United Methodist Church. Includes appetizers, music, film reel, red-carpet. $20 in advance, $30 at the door.
Folk singer Tim Eriksen, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Robin Theatre, $25.
Music with Calling All Dolls, Femmebots and more, 9 p.m. Saturday, The Avenue; free, $5 donation suggested.
Music FROM Whorled, WITH Celtic-French-jazz influences. 8 p.m. April 10, Robin Theatre, free.
Afterglow, with a chance to hang out with artists and others, 9:30 p.m., April 10, Central United Methodist Church, free.
Music by the funk-fusion band Love Effect and others, 9 p.m., April 11, The Avenue, free
Afterglow party," 9 p.m. April 12, The Avenue; music by punk-techno band Nature and others, $10.

What else is free

(check website to reserve tickets)

Panel of local online creators; 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Central United Methodist Church.
Variety show with poet/hip hopper Jashua Smith, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Robin Theatre.
"Filmetry," pairing poets and filmmakers, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Impression 5 Ex.
"Folk Music in Film," with Tim Eriksen, 11 a.m. Saturday, Robin Theatre.
"Final Destination," with the Quality Scary and Lansing Facts groups adding comic commentary, 6 p.m. Saturday, Central United Methodist Church.
"Tell Them About Us," a film about seven teen girls adjusting to new lives in a German city, 6 p.m. Saturday, Stage One.
"Symphonic Cinema," showing John Sayles' 1984 "The Brother From Another Planet," with a live music background of trumpet, synthesizer, voice and more. 6 p.m. Sunday, Central United Methodist Church.
Three short films on environmental justice, plus a panel discussion. 6 p.m. April 9, Central United Methodist Church.
MSU student shorts, 8 p.m. April 9, Central United Methodist Church.
Tim and Jim Fielder show two films, one about the Afrofuturist movement and another a teen horror film set in Brooklyn. There are other films, plus a discussion. 5 p.m. April 11, Robin Theatre.
Family-friendly shorts, on a continuous loop. 10 a.m. April 12, Impression 5.
Coffee hour and then a discussion with Tim Fielder, a graphic novelist, about the basics of storyboarding. 11 a.m. April 12, Robin Theatre.
Afrofuturist shorts and discussion. 1:30 p.m. April 12, Robin Theatre.
"Move Ya Body: The Birth of House," a film about a music movement that emerged from the wreckage of "disco demolition night" at Comiskey Park in Chicago, 3:10 p.m. April 12, Robin Theatre.

Memories

(These are being shown because of the deaths of film icons)

David Lynch's "Eraserhead" (1978), 10:45 p.m. Friday (April 4), Central United Methodist Church.
Gene Hackman starring in "The Royal Tenenbaums" (2001), 10:30 p.m. April 11, The Royal Tennenbaums.

More movies

(The shorts packages are listed separately. Here are the feature films; most preceded by a short)

Friday (April 4): "The Compatriots," 6 p.m., Central United Methodist Church; "The Accidental Spy," 6 p.m., Stage One; "Goodbye, Julia," 8:30, Stage One.
Saturday: "Valensole 1965," 1 p.m., Impression 5 Exp; "True Believer," 3:30, I-5, Exp; "Water Lilies," 3:30 p.m., Stage One; "Vampire Zombies … From Space!" 8:30, Central United Methodist Church; "Can I Get a Witness?" 8:30, Stage One.
April 6: "The Palestine Esception," 1 p.m., Stage One; "The Invisible Mammal," 4 p.m., Stage One.
April 9: "Maxxi LaWow: Drag Super-shero" (animated), 6 p.m., Stage One; "Bring Them Home," 8:15, Stage One.
April 10: "Vulcanizadora," 6 p.m., Central United Methodist Church.
April 11: "Kill Will," 5:30 p.m., Central; "Dancing on the Edge of the Volcano," 8 p.m., Impression 5 Exp.; "Micro Budget," 8:15, Central United Methodist Church.
April 12: "The Prospect," 1 p.m., Central United Methodist Church; "6 a.m.," 3:30 p.m., Central.;
"Your Tomorrow," 3:30 p.m., Stage One; "Boys Go to Jupiter" (animated), 5:25 p.m., Central United Methodist Church.

This article originally appeared on Lansing State Journal: Capital City Film Festival 2025schedule of events for April 2-12