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
BRIEF dir. by Finnegan Haid

Audience Choice Award: Best of Fest Feature
MOON GARDEN dir. by Ryan Stevens Harris

Best New England Film (David Kleiler Memorial Award)
SKIN & BONE dir. by Eli Powers

Director’s Choice: Best Short
URSULA dir. by Hannah Heller

Director’s Choice: Best Feature
REBEL dir. Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah

We’d like to express our most sincere thanks and gratitude to: The Brattle Theatre, AVID, BudgetDCP, DigBoson, Nightshift Brewing, Denman Drapkin Group at Compass, and UPrinting.com for 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.