2023 Arizona International Film Festival
Best of Category
Festival Grand Prize
UNICORN BOY
Matt Kiel, United States, 2023
Best Dramatic Feature
GOOD GUY WITH A GUN
John Mossman, USA, 2023
Best Foreign Feature
ARIEL
Alison Murray, Canada, 2022
Best First Feature
SMALL FRY
Joongha Park, South Korea, 2023
Best Documentary
ISRAELISM
Eric Axelman, United States, 2023
Best Foreign Documentary
KING OF KINGS: CHASING EDWARD JONES
Harriet Marin Jones, France, 2022
Best Short Documentary
A BOAT FOR MY BROTHER
Matthew Boyd, United States, 2023
Best Dramatic Short
WRAP ME IN A SHEET
Molly Muse, United States, 2023
Best Foreign Short
SAFE AS HOUSES
Mia Mullarkey, Ireland, 2022
Best Horror Short
WINDER
Case Avron, United States, 2023
Best Comedy Short
THE LORD'S HOUSE
Sebastian Hunt, United States, 2023
Best Foreign Comedy Short
MATILDA & WILLIAM
Johanna Ställberg, Sweden, 2021
Best Experimental Short
SIGNS OF OUR TIMES
Lisa Birke, Canada, 2022
Best Animated Short
THE COCOON
David Shen Miller, United States, 2023
Best Short Short
THE BLOOM
Jody Xiong, China, 2022
Best of Arizona
SUMMERHAVEN: THE SERIES
Stacey Cochran, United States, 2023
Special Jury Awards
Special Jury Award for Bridging Cultures
THE NATURE OF HEALING
Faith Howe, Canada, 2022
Special Jury Award for Activist Filmmaking
LAS ABOGADAS: Attorneys on the Front Lines of the Migrant Crisis
Victoria Bruce, USA, 2022
Special Jury Award for Activist Filmmaking
IMAGINING THE INDIAN: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting
Aviva Kempner and Ben West, USA, 2022
Special Jury Award for Best Performance to
PEPE SERNA
in PEPE SERNA: LIFE IS ART
Special Jury Award for Outstanding Cinematography
PIETER STATHIS
for THE BEEHIVE
Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking
TO THE SUMMIT
Junce Ye, China, 2022
Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling
BLACK MOON
Tonatiuh García Jimenez, Mexico, 2022
Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling in Animation
FOUR SOULS OF COYOTE
Áron Gauder, Hungary, 2023
Jury Awards
for Creative Achievement
HEDGEHOG
(USA, 2022)
Dramatic Short
NIGHT
(Germany, 2021)
Animation
PANIC ATTACK
(Ireland, 2023)
Dramatic Short
REVELATION TO THE DISEMBODIED
(USA, 2022)
Experimental
REVENGE OF DAKOTA
(USA, 2023)
Restored Western
IndieYouth Shorts Awards
Audience Award
IRR-ELEPHANT
Collin Bridge, USA, 2022
Best Animation
ROOM
Ian Dani Kim, USA, 2022
Best Documentary
HAYA
Ugné Alaburdaité, Lithuania, 2022
Best Narrative
INBETWEEN
Eli Press-Reynolds, USA, 2022
Best Experimental
Como una Mosca en Leche (Like a Fly in Milk)
Nicholas LeBoeuf, USA, 2022
Best Made in Arizona
12:34
Drew Mette, USA, 2022