ANN ARBOR — The Ann Arbor Film Festival announces the 5th season of AAFF Presents, a monthly screening series of feature films from the 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival. Presented in partnership with the Michigan Theater Foundation, AAFF Presents will take place at 7pm on the second Tuesday of the month from May to November 2023 at the State Theatre, 233 S. State St., Ann Arbor (except July 11 at Third Mind Books, 118 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor).
AAFF Presents is free for AAFF Members & MTF Members (MTF Premium levels and above). Non-member tickets are $10.50 for Adults, $8.50 for Seniors, Students, and the Military. Tickets will be available at the Michigan Theater website. The July 11 screening at Third Mind Books will be free of charge to everyone. AAFF Members will receive an email with a film-specific code to receive free admission to State Theatre screenings. To become an AAFF member, please visit the AAFF membership page.
The series begins on Tuesday, May 9 at 7pm with the documentary Up the River with Acid by Harald Hutter (France | 2022 | 63 minutes), which received its North American Premiere at the 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival in March 2023. Hutter discussed the film with AAFF in this 36-minute interview. The film presents two days in the life of Horst, an elderly man whose life has been upended by dementia. Hutter’s father, who worked as a philosophy professor for 42 years, has slowly seen his cognitive abilities decrease and his daily life increasingly difficult to negotiate. Through a series of portraits we observe a man’s attempt to hold on to a rapidly shifting and alien world.
AAFF Presents continues with the following films selected from the recently concluded 61st AAFF:
- June 13, Diòba, Adriana Marcela Rojas Espitia (Colombia)
- July 11, Field Trip, Short Films by Jack Cronin (US), Third Mind Books, Ann Arbor
- August 8, Huahua’s Dazzling World and its Myriad Temptations,
Daphne Xu (China) - September 12, Adieu Sauvage, Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento (Colombia)
Winner, Best Documentary, 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival - October 10, Kapr Code, Lucie Králová (Czech Republic)
- November 14, Berbu – The Wedding Parade, Sevinaz Evdike
(Syrian Arab Republic)
For more information, please visit the AAFF Presents webpage.
About Ann Arbor Film Festival
Founded in 1963, the Ann Arbor Film Festival is the oldest independent and experimental film festival in North America and is internationally recognized as a premier forum for film as an art form. For the 61st Festival, AAFF received 2,743 film submissions from 95 countries and serves as one of a handful of Academy Award–qualifying festivals in the United States. The AAFF is a pioneer of the traveling film festival tour, and each year AAFF touring programs are presented in dozens of theaters, universities, museums, and micro cinemas around the world.
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