While we love every film in the festival, in the end only a few can take home one of the coveted Bacchus Awards…

Audience Choice Award: Best of Fest Short
THE THAW dir. Sarah Wisner and Sean Temple

Audience Choice Award: Best of Fest Feature
HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON dir. Ariane Louis-Seize

Audience Choice Award: Best Debut Feature
OFF RAMP dir. Nathan Tape

Best New England Film (David Kleiler Memorial Award)
STRANGE KINDNESS dir. Joseph Mault

Director’s Choice: Best Short
LIPSTICK & LIGHT BULBS dir. Tamara Hernandez

Director’s Choice: Best Feature
WITH LOVE AND A MAJOR ORGAN dir. Kim Albright

We’d like to express our most sincere thanks and gratitude to: The Brattle Theatre, AVID, BudgetDCP, Regeneration Tattoo, Kush Groove Dispensary, Utopia, Shudder, and Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate for their invaluable support; to all the BUFF and Brattle volunteers and staff; to all the participating filmmakers; and to our incredible audience, who came out over the past five days to celebrate cinema.

It was thrilling to gather, devour, and explore the variety of films and themes that comprised this year’s lineup together. It’s a sincere labor of love to put this event together year after year and we do it with just a handful of cash, no corporate sponsorship, and very few hours of sleep; a feat of a 100%-volunteer team driven by passion for films and our film community.

Against all odds, we’ve made it here – exhausted and victorious – to the end of our twenty-fourth edition and we already can’t wait to see you back at the Brattle this time next year.