THE 55TH ANN ARBOR
FILM FESTIVAL
Check out the 55th Program Book here.
AWARD-WINNING FILMS
Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival
Xylophone - Jennifer Levonian
Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker
Commodity City - Jessica Kingdon
Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film
The Interior - Jonathan Rattner
Lawrence Kasden Award for Best Narrative Film
Sadhu In Bombay - Kabir Mehta
Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film
Railment - Shunsaku Hayashi
Best Experimental Film
My Private Life II - Jill Daniels
Gil Omenn Art & Science Award
Artificial Intelligence for Governance: AI the Kitty
-Pinar Yoldas
Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film
"The Talk" True Stories About The Birds and The Bees
-Alain Delannoy
Jury Awards:
ACTS & INTERMISSIONS (Abigail Child)
America for Americans (Blair McClendon)
Broken - The Women's Prison at Hoheneck
(Volker Schlecht)
Fertile Myrtle (Julie Orser)
Following Seas (Tyler Kelley & Araby Williams)
Hot Dog Hands (Matt Reynolds)
Persistence of Vision (Rodney Evans)
Pokey Pokey (Junjie Zhang)
Princessboy (Sosi Chamoun)
Victor & Isolina (William Caballero)
RingSide Creative Archival Film Award
Etude 1a: Release (I) - Russell Sheaffer & Aaron Michael Smith
PROCAM Best Regional Filmmaker Award
Sleeping With the Devil - Alisa Yang
The Eileen Maitland Award
Absence of Memory - Rita Piffer
The No Violence Award
Notes from Buena Vista - Elizabeth Lo
Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design
personne - Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller
George Manupelli Founder’s Spirit Award
Hotel Dallas - Sherng-Lee Huang & Livia Ungur
Tios Award for Best International Film
Emelina - Gabriel Ortega
Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film
Edge of Alchemy - Stacey Steers
\aut\ Film Award for Best LGBTQ Film
Walk For Me - Elegance Bratton
Overture/Wazoo Award for Best Music Video
Boomerang - The Absynth Quintet (Steven Vander Meer)
MEET THE JURORS
MARY MAGSMAN
RUTH BRADLEY
JAY ROSENBLATT
FILMS
211
FILMS
PROGRAMMED
112
FILMS IN COMPETITION
13
SHORTS IN COMPETITION
PROGRAMS
11
FEATURES IN COMPETITION
PREMIERES
21 World Premieres
12 North American Premieres
7 U.S. Premieres
27,000 IN BOX
OFFICE REVENUE
$19,000 IN TOTAL AWARDS TO 29 FILMS
PEOPLE
ALMOST 10,000 ATTENDEES
600 PEOPLE AT OPENING NIGHT