This is the list of award-winning works for the 54th edition of the Ann Arbor FIlm Festival:
Ken Burns Award for Best of the Festival Ear, Nose, Throat by Kevin Jerome Everson
The Stan Brakhage Film at Wit’s End Award The Illinois Parables by Deborah Stratman
Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film Edmond by Nina Gantz
Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film The Event by Sergei Loznitsa
Tios Award for Best International Film Dead Slow Ahead by Mauro Herce
Peter Wilde Award for Most Technically Innovative Film (conical signal) by arc
\aut\FILM Award for Best LGBT Film Hard as Opal by Jared Buckhiester and Dani Leventhal
Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design Irradiant Field by Laura Kraning
Kodak Cinematic Vision Award Fish Point by Pablo Mazzolo House and Universe by Antoinette Zwirchmayr
The No Violence Award Bending to Earth by Rosa Barba
Best Experimental Film Engram of Returning by Daïchi Saïto
Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film The Resonance by Rezonans by Mateusz Sadowski
The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist Vague Images at the Beginning and End of the Day by Carl Elsaesser
Prix DeVarti for Funniest Film A Boy Needs a Friend by Steve Reinke
Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker Jáaji Approx. by Sky Hopinka Australian Paper by Minjung Kim
George Manupelli Founder’s Spirit Award We Chose the Milky Way by Eva Marie Rødbro
Gil Omenn Art & Science Award Prima Materia by Charlotte Pryce The Eileen Maitland Award Baba Dana Talks To The Wolves by Ralitsa Doncheva
Overture/Wazoo Award for Best Music Video “Beasts in the Garden” by Spires that in the Sunset Rise by Lori Felker
PROCAM Best Regional Filmmaker Award Our Last Hurrah by Terri Sarris How to Rust by Julia Yezbick
Jury Awards:
- Two Clothespins in an Envelope by Susanna Wallin
- Vivir Para Vivir / Live to Live by Laida Lertxundi
- Blue and Red by Zhou Tao
- Summer 1975 by Wrik Mead