Alaskan filmmaker Zoe Quist’s sci-fi comedy Glitched will close the 25th Silver Anniversary edition of the Anchorage International Film Festival on Sunday, December 14, 2025.
Anchorage International Film Festival
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‘Bob Trevino Likes It’ to Open 24th Anchorage International Film Festival Lineup of 100+ Films
Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo as Lily Trevino and Bob Trevino in Bob Trevino Likes It. (Credit: John Rosario / Chosen Family, LLC) The Anchorage International Film Festival (AIFF) unveiled the official program for its 24th edition, set to take place from December 6th to December 15th across venues in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Anchorage International Film Festival will Screen THE WILD Documentary
The Wild directed by Mark Titus Anchorage International Film Festival (AFF) will host the screening of the award-winning documentary The Wild directed by Mark Titus, as a “Live” Virtual Screening on Friday, June 5th at 6 pm AKDT.
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Anchorage International Film Festival Ten Days of “Films Worth Freezing For” Opens December 1
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The Anchorage International Film Festival (AIFF) will open ten days of “Films Worth Freezing For” beginning Friday, December 1 and continuing through Sunday, December 10, 2017. This year’s festival, showcasing international and local Alaskan films, is the 17th annual iteration of the event. Over 130 films will be hosted at BearTooth Theatrepub, the Alaska Experience Theatre, and E Street Theater (formerly BearSquare Theater), with special events at Williwaw, 49th State Brewing Co. and the Anchorage Museum.
The AIFF will open on Friday, December 1, at the BearTooth Theatrepub, with a night of short films, one of the festival’s most popular programs. The showcase of shorts brings a gamut of talent to the screen for a celebration of independent filmmaking. This festive night will include champagne and desserts, the music of Blackwater Railroad Company who wrote the soundtrack for festival selection, Broken Ghost.
Said Festival Director, Rebecca Pottebaum, “We are very proud of our film festival, having chosen countless films that will challenge, endear and entertain audiences with their style and depth. Cinema is a gathering place, where we can connect audience members with filmmakers and to each other–and, in turn, to the world at large.”
Over three dozen filmmakers travel to Alaska to attend the festival, one of whom is Emmy Award-winning documentarian, Geeta Gandbhir, with her film Prison Dogs. Many AIFF screenings will have directors or cast present to engage with audiences and discuss the films afterward. Numerous filmmakers will visit high school classrooms around Anchorage as guest speakers and workshop providers.
Festival highlights include the 5-day Film Royal filmmaking competition, youth films showcase, Martini Matinee, family films, and numerous panels and workshops. Norwegian Sami rapper, Nils Utsi (who performs under the name SlinCraze), raps in a language only 20,000 people speak and he will join the AIFF for Arctic Superstar film screening and a performance. Numerous Alaskan filmmakers will grace the big screen in competition for audience and jury awards.
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2015 Anchorage International Film Festival Lineup; Opens with “Eadweard”
The 2015 Anchorage International Film Festival revealed the lineup of independent films from around the world to screen December 4-13, 2015 at the BearTooth Theatrepub, Alaska Experience Theater, Anchorage Museum and the Snow Goose Performing Arts Theatre.
The festival will begin with the Opening Night screening of “Eadweard,” at the BearTooth Theatrepub, 8 PM on Friday, Dec. 4. Eadweard is the story of a world-famous, turn-of-the-century photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, later to be known as the “Godfather of Cinema.” This psychological thriller follows Muybridge from his work in Alaska shortly after its purchase from Russia. The story portrays an unconventional photographer as he seeks to capture life in “motion,” developing the first body of stop-motion photography–over 100,000 images depicting animals and humans in motion, and nude and deformed subjects. Director Kyle Rideout will be in attendance for the Opening Night screening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VAds0GH_8E
Among the many cinematic highlights anticipated for this festival are some collaborative screenings including the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA) debut of a rare, thought-to-be-lost, early Sci-Fi film from 1929 called “High Treason,” which has been in the restoration process for ten years, from Alaska to the Library of Congress. Also on the docket is an Indie Lens Pop-up series documentary from Alaska Public Media, “Autism in Love”, screening at Anchorage Museum, directly after the annual “Family Day” program, offered for free to the public.
2015 FILM SELECTIONS:
Narrative Feature Selections at AIFF 2015 are:
And The Circus Leaves Town (d. Mete Sozer, Turkey)
Creditors (d. Ben Cura, United Kingdom)
Death on a Rock (d. Scott Ballard, United States)
Diablo (d. Lawrence Roeck, Canada)
Eadweard (d. Kyle Rideout, Canada)
Jasmine (d. Dax Phelan, Hong Kong)
Living With the Dead (d. Rebekah Nelson, United States)
Magic Utopia ( d. Shoji Toyama, Shuichi Tan, Japan)
Midori in Hawaii (d. John Hill, United States)
Orphans & Kingdoms (d. Paolo Rotondo, New Zealand)
Status:single (d. Pavel Ruminov, Russian Federation)
The David Dance (d. Aprill Winney, United States)
The Descendants (d. Yaser Talebi, Islamic Republic of Iran)
The Incredible Adventures of Jojo (and his annoying little sister Avila) (d. Ann-Marie Schmidt, Brian Schmidt, United States
They Look Like People (d. Perry Blackshear, United States)
Under Construction (d. Rubaiyat Hossain, Bangladesh)
When the Ocean Met the Sky (d. Phillip Thomas, Canada)
Documentary selections at AIFF 2015 are:
A Courtship (d. Amy Kohn, United States)
A Journey to Namie (d. Sulfikar Amir, Singapore)
Above & Below (d. Nicolas Steiner, Switzerland)
Bihttoš (d. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Canada)
Children of the Arctic (d. Nick Brandestini, Switzerland)
Circus Without Borders (d. Susan Gray, Linda Matchan, United States)
Code: Debugging the Gender Gap (d. Robin Hauser Reynolds, United States)
Dance of the People (d. Marc Menish, United States)
Free Custom Poetry (d. Cory Wilson, United States)
From This Day Forward (d. Sharon Shattuck, United States)
Harry & Snowman (d. Ron Davis, United States)
Janey Makes a Play (d. Jared Callahan, United States)
Keeping Country (d. Andrew Quinn, Australia)
Knit Me Some Happiness (d. Sofia Olins, United Kingdom)
Lost & Found (d. Nicolina Lanni, Canada)
Love Between the Covers (d. Laurie Kahn, Australia, United States)
Madina’s Dream (d. Andrew Berends, United States)
Man in the Can (d. Noessa Higa, United States)
No Greater Love (d. Justin Roberts, United States)
Riding My Way Back (d. Robin Fryday, Peter Rosenbaum, United States)
Right Footed (d. Nick Spark, United States)
Stink! (d. Jon J. Whelan, United States)
Superjednostka (d. Teresa Czepiec, Poland)
The Brainwashing of My Dad (Work in Progress screening)(d. Jen Senko, United States)
The House is Innocent (d. Nicholas Coles, United States)
To Scale (d. Alex Gorosh, United States)
Vanishing Sail (d.Alexis Andrews, Antigua & Barbuda)
Very Semi-Serious (d. Leah Wolchok, United States)
War of Lies (d. Matthias Bittner, Germany)
Short Film Selections at AIFF 2015 are:
20 Meters of Love in Montmartre (d. Pierre Gaffié, France)
Adolescence (d. Daniel Milan, Mexico)
Birthday (d. Chris King, United States)
Hirsit (d. Selcen Yilamzoglu, Turkey)
Joe Will Die (d. David Janove, United States)
Merry X-mas (d. Boman Modine, United States)
Mike (d. Petros Silvestros, United Kingdom)
Moving On (d. Mike Spear, Marcia Fields, United States)
My Heart (d. Yser Talebi, Islamic Republic of Iran)
Nkosi Coiffure (d. Frederike Migom, Belgium)
One-Minute Time Machine (d. Devon Avery, United States)
Scary Larry (d. Greg Ivan Smith, United States)
The Bravest, The Boldest (d. Moon Molson, United States)
The Call (d. Zamo Mkhwanazi, South Africa)
The Poem of a Memory (d. Christhian Andrews, United States)
The Red Thunder (d. Alvaro Ron, United States)
The Story of a Rainy Night (d. Mehdi Fard Ghaderi, Iran)
Unleaded (d. Luke Davies, United Kingdom)
Winter (d. Lina Roessler, Canada)
Zawadi (d. Richard Card, Kenya)
Animation
Chhaya (d. Debanjan Nandy, United Kingdom)
Golden Shot (d. Gokalp Gonen, Turkey)
In the forest (d. Li Xia, United States)
Mr. McBob (d. Pierre Schantz, United States)
Olilo (d. Ao Li, United States)
Ripple (d. Conner Griffith, United States)
Rosso Papavero (d. Martin Smetana, Slovakia)
Scaredy Bat (d. Greg Perkins, United States)
Sleepy Steve (d. Meghann Artes, United States)
Switch Man (d. Hsun-Chun Chuang , Shao-Kuei Tong, Taiwan)
The Apple Tree (d. Scott Storm, United States)
The Looking Planet (d. Eric Law Anderson, United States)
The Present (d. Jacob Frey, Germany)
Untitled (d. Sean McCarthy, United States)
wHole (d. Verena Klinger, Robert Banning, Germany)
Made In Alaska
3022 Ft. (d. Max Romey, United States)
Degrees North (Switzerland) 52 min.
Easy Money (d. Zayn Roohi, United States)
Heart of Alaska (d. Bjørn Olson, United States)
Hunting in Wartime (d. Samantha Farinella, United States)
I Follow Rivers (d. Ellie Schmidt, United States)
Pushing Out Daisy (d. Allison Week, United States)
Seahorse (d. Kamell Allaway, United States)
Storis: The Galloping Ghost of the Alaska Coast (d. Damon Stuebner, United States)
The Muse (d. Christopher Gage Tucker, United States)
The Ruthless Rhymer (d. Quinton Oliver Smith, United States)
Through the Wires (d. Greg Chaney, United States)
We Are All Related Here (d. Brian McDermott, United States)
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Lad: A Yorkshire Story Wins Best Feature at 2012 Anchorage International Film Festival
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Lad: A Yorkshire Story, directed by Dan Hartley was awarded the top prize, the Golden Oosikars for Best Feature at the 2012 Anchorage International Film Festival which ran November 30 to December 12, 2012 in Anchorage, Alaska. Set in the starkly beautiful Yorkshire Dales, the film is described as a heart-warming tale of two individuals overcoming adversity and in the process forming a unique and inspiring friendship.
Roadmap to Apartheid, directed by Ana Nogueira won the award for Best Documentary. Co- directors Ana Nogueira and Eron Davidson are respectively a white South African and a Jewish Israeli. Drawing on their first-hand knowledge of the issues, the directors take a close look at the apartheid comparison often used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their film breaks down the rhetorical analogy into a fact-based comparison, noting where the analogy is useful and appropriate, and where it is not. Their film is as much a historical document of the rise and fall of Apartheid as it is a film about why Palestinians feel that they are living in an Apartheid system today, and why an increasing number of people around the world agree with them.
The complete list of Golden Oosikars winners at the 2012 Anchorage International Film Festival
Golden Oosikars
Features
Best Feature: “Lad: A Yorkshire Story“, directed by Dan Hartley
Runner Up: “Things I Don’t Understand“, directed by David Spaltro
Honorable Mention: “Shouting Secrets“, directed by Korinna Sehringer
Documentaries
Best Documentary: “Roadmap to Apartheid“, directed by Ana Nogueira
Runner Up: “The World Before Her“, directed by Nisha Dahuja
Honorable Mention: “Ping Pong“, directed by Hugh Hartford
Shorts
Best Short: “Lapse“, directed by Gilles Gueraz
Runner Up: “Calcutta Taxi“, directed by Vikram Dasgupta
Honorable Mention: “Cockatoo“, directed by Matthew Jenkin
Super Shorts
Best Super Short: “Her Next Door“, directed by Sasha Ransome
Runner Up: “Matriarche“, directed by Guillaume Pierret
Honorable Mention: “Polarised“, directed by Steve Fleming
Animation
Best Animation: “Paths of Hate“, directed by Damian Nenow
Runner Up: “Light Me Up“, directed by Ryan Walton and Derek Dolechek
Honorable Mention: “Lemons“, directed by Kate Burck
Snowdance
Documentaries
Best Snowdance Documentary: “Rousseau’s Children“, directed by Monika Scharer
Runner Up: “No Horizon Anymore: A Year Long Journey at the Bottom of the World“, directed by Keith Reimink
Shorts
Best Snowdance Short: “I Met Her in the Coffee Shop“, directed by Erik Hogan
Runner Up: “Scare“, directed by Matt Jardin
Audience Choice
Features
Audience Choice Feature: “Passionflower“, directed by Shelagh Carter
Runner Up: “Shouting Secrets“, directed by Korinna Sehringer
Documentaries
Audience Choice Documentary: “Espacios Inacabados (Unfinished Spaces)“, directed by Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray
Runner Up: “Wolves Unleashed“, directed by Andrew Simpson
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2010 Anchorage International Film Festival Golden Oosikar Awards
The Wild Hunt, by Alexandre Franchi The Anchorage International Film Festival just wrapped its 10th edition and awarded its 2010 Golden Oosikar Awards to the top films, with “The Wild Hunt,” by Alexandre Franchi taking the top prize for Best Film.