Established in 1963, the Ann Arbor Film Festival is the oldest avant garde and experimental film festival in the world. In 2025, the festival featured over 15 shorts in competition and 8 features in competition consisting of 110 films from nearly 30 countries and a variety of lengths and genres, including experimental, animation, documentary, narrative, hybrid, and performance based works.

The Ann Arbor Film Festival has been presenting an annual tour of selected works from the festival since 1964 to venues worldwide. All filmmakers participating on the tour are paid to screen their work, providing direct support to these independent artists.

Program 1: Films from Canada, Germany, the UK, and the United States:

Uncle Bardo (Luke Mistruzzi)
Simulacrumbs (Joanie Wind)
Sinkholes (Karen Russo)
A shifting pattern (Isaac Sherman)
The FLOWER CULT of Amelia Earheart (Rebecca Barten)
Moral Support (vuk jevremovic)
Purgatorio (Stephanie Miracle, Auden Lincoln-Vogel, Philip Rabalais)
Las Territorias (Anna Brotman-Krass)