Founded in 1963, the Ann Arbor Film Festival is the world’s oldest festival dedicated to avant garde and experimental cinema. A pioneer of the film festival tour model, AAFF has brought selections from its annual program to audiences around the globe since 1964, reaching galleries, art house theaters, museums, universities, libraries, microcinemas, and media arts centers. This program highlights a selection of outstanding works from the 63rd edition in 2025, which showcased more than 110 films from nearly 30 countries, spanning experimental, animation, documentary, narrative, hybrid, and performance-based forms.

The Alternative Cinema series is made possible by the Department of Art, Film and Media Studies, and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.

Discussion with AAFF programmer Leslie Raymond via Zoom