The Ann Arbor Film Festival has announced the awards list for its 52nd edition, as chosen by the jury Steve Anker, Hope Tucker and Jeremy Rigsby:
Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival: Lagos Island & Lagos Sand Merchants by Karimah Ashadu
The Stan Brakhage Film at Wit’s End Award: A Study in Natural Magic, by Charlotte Pryce
Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film: Letter to a Refusing Pilot, by Akram Zaatari
Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film: Purgatorio, by Rodrigo Reyes
Award for Best International Film: Mille Soleils, by Mati Diop
Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film: Main Hall, by Philipp Fleischmann
\aut\FILM Award for Best LGBT Film: Touch, by Shelly Silver
Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design: Hacked Circuit, by Deborah Stratman
Award for Best Cinematography:
- Sun Song, by Joel Wanek
- Rivergarden, by Jack Cronin
- murmurations, by Rebecca Meyers
The No Violence Award: Letter to a Refusing Pilot, by Akram Zaatari
Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film: Gradual Speed, by Els van Riel
Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film: Velocity, by Karolina Glusiec
The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist: Division, by Johan Rijpma
Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film: The Great Rabbit, by Atsushi Wada
Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker: Will o’ the Wisp, by Andrew Kim
George Manupelli Founder’s Spirit Award: Gente Perra (Dog People), by Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy
Gil Omenn Art & Science Award
- Gowanus Canal, by Sarah J. Christman
- Adeline For Leaves, by Jessica Sarah Rinland
The Eileen Maitland Award: A Million Miles Away, by Jennifer Reeder
Award for Best Music Video: Metamorfoza, by Martha Colburn
Kinetta Handcrafted Film Award: Dot Matrix, by Richard Tuohy
Kinetta Archival Film Award: Off-White Tulips, by Aykan Safoglu
Jury Awards:
- The Absent Stone (La Piedra Ausente), by Jesse Lerner
- Brimstone Line, by Chris Kennedy
- Cold Open, by Seamus Harahan
- ELSA merdelamerdelamer, by Abigail Child
- Fe26 & sound that, by Kevin Jerome Everson