2026 Arizona International Film Festival
Festival Grand Prize
MISTAKE
Honey Lauren, USA, 2026
Best of Category
Best Foreign Feature
MARIA VITÓRIA
Mário Patrocinio, Portugal, 2025
Best Indie Feature
DON'T LET THEM OUT
Lila McLaughlin, USA, 2025
Best Horror Feature
THE IRON DOOR
Garrett Patten, USA, 2025
Best Action Feature
HEADS UP
Charif Ounis, Germany, 2025
Best First Feature
CHOIR PRACTICE
Sally Shamrell, USA, 2026
Best Documentary
LAND OF CANAAN
Maggie Lemere, USA, 2025
Best Music Documentary
LONELY TROJAN - too young for the first wave...too old for the second
Chris Corleone, USA, 2026
Best Short Documentary
A PROMISE OF PARADISE
Thomas Machowicz, USA, 2025
Best Foreign Short Documentary
VOYAGE OF THE HANDALA
Jim Koenigsaecker & Tom Hayes, Spain/USA, 2025
Best Dramatic Short
DÉRIVE
Lianne Sonia Walden, USA, 2025
Best Indigenous Short
BRAIDS
Elise Beers, USA, 2025
Best Foreign Short
RELIEFS
Juan Manuel Gonzáles
Best Comedy Short
EVERYTHING IS BRAND
Brett Weiner, USA, 2026
Best Experimental Short
OLD GROWTH
Minda Martin, USA, 2026
Best Animated Short
PAWNS
Dale Kutzera, USA, 2026
Best Short Short
MEIN FUHRER BLUES
Jim Hall & Xavier Combe, France, 2026
Sam Polito Award for Best of Arizona
SAMARITANS
David Damian Figueroa, USA, 2026
Special Jury Awards
Special Jury Award for Bridging Cultures
RESONANCIA
Ted Nash & Cathy Barbash, Cuba/USA, 2026
Special Jury Award for Cultural & Historical Filmmaking
THE LAST PICTURE SHOWS
Rustin Thompson, USA, 2026
Special Jury Award for Activist Filmmaking
YOU'RE NO INDIAN
Ryan Flynn, USA, 2025
Special Jury Award for Best Performance to
JERIS DUPREE for RIVER MAMMA
Special Jury Award for Outstanding Cinematography to
DAVEY ROBERTSON for MISTAKE
Special Jury Award for Innovative Storytelling
THE ZOO
Mimi Chakarova, USA, 2025
Jury Awards
for Creative Achievement
HOLLYWOOD'S MERMAID:
THE ESTHER WILLIAMS STORY
(USA, 2026)
Documentary Short
MADE IN AMERICA
(USA, 2025)
Dramatic Short
MATERIA
(Canada, 2025)
Experimental Short
OBLIVARA - BEAUTY TO OBLIVION
(USA, 2026)
Experimental Short
SPHERES
(Germany, 2026)
Experimental Short
WIND ACROSS THE ROOM
(China, 2025)
Global Short