Explore the history of Hollywood and Broadway tap dance with Susan Filipiak. This event will include film clips and a live performance!

Susan Filipiak is celebrating her 36th year as a dance teacher and 58th year as a dancer. Her tap dance mentors include Brenda Bufalino, Dianne Walker, Steve Condos, Buster Brown, LaVaughan Robinson, Gregory Hines, and Lloyd Storey. Susan is an instructor at the Dexter Wellness Center, Chelsea Wellness Center and she teaches tap dance at the Ann Arbor YMCA. You can find her at Swing City Dance.

“Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers” by Kate Gabrielle is licensed under CC BY 2.0

What is it like to be a writer, director, storyteller, and woman in the film industry? How does the past, current, and potential future climate of filmmaking look for women working and teaching in the field? Join a panel of filmmakers as they discuss their experiences finding, creating, and telling stories.

Screening of Dearborn-based filmmaker's "Detroit Unleaded" with discussion after in collaboration with Arab American Parents of AAPS

The AAFF Family Friendly Film Program at the Ann Arbor District Library aims to familiarize the public with the Ann Arbor Film Festival's traditional festival-week Saturday morning show called "Almost All Ages." The AADL screening has been programmed with AAFF films from the past ten years, specifically with kids in mind! It is content and attention-span appropriate for kids ages six and up, with a focus on orienting families and our youngest movie-goers to the world of experimental film.

Researchers have recently discovered a dangerous biological syndrome caused by abuse and neglect during childhood. As the new documentary Resilience reveals, toxic stress can trigger hormones that wreak havoc on the brains and bodies of children, putting them at a greater risk for disease, homelessness, incarceration, and early death. While the broader impacts of poverty worsen the risk, no segment of society is immune. Resilience also chronicles the dawn of a movement that is determined to fight back. Trailblazers in pediatrics, education, and social welfare are using cutting-edge science and field-tested therapies to protect children from the insidious effects of toxic stress—and the dark legacy of a childhood that no child would choose.

This 60-minute 2016 film is not rated.

Join the viewers of the most-watched sporting event in the world as the month-long competition comes to a close. 32 soccer teams from around the world started the tournament, but now we are down to the final two. Who will bring home the coveted FIFA World Cup Trophy and glory for the next 4 years?

Kickoff is scheduled for 11:00am local time.

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Keith Famie unearths the roots of depression and explores the reasons for suicidal tendencies in this documentary. The film features people from all over the country whose lives have been affected by suicide and depression, including suicide survivors, those who have lost friends and family to suicide, and medical professionals specializing in mental health. Death is NOT the Answer explores the causes of suicide while conveying the message that there are always alternatives to taking one’s own life. Keith Famie will moderate discussion after the film. This two-hour, 2017 documentary is not rated.

The AAFF is a pioneer of the traveling film festival tour which launched in 1963 with film screenings in Paris, Los Angeles and Berkeley. Since that time, the AAFF Tour has presented hundreds of influential works, including films by Barbara Hammer, Gus Van Sant, Sally Cruikshank, Don Hertzfeldt, Bill Brown, Ross McLaren, Paul Winkler, James Duesing, Martha Colburn and Jay Rosenblatt.

This event will feature digital program one which contains six new experimental, animated, documentary, and narrative videos including:

• Jessica Kingdon's Commodity City (Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker)
• personne by Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller (Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design)
• Jonathan Rattner's The Interior (Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary)
• Elegance Bratton's Walk For Me (\aut\Film Award for Best LGBTQ Film)
• Railment by Shunsaku Hayashi (Chris Frayne Award for Best Animated Film)
• Pokey Pokey by Junjie Zhang (Jury Award)

The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America.

In a gripping portrait of courage, director Abigail E. Disney follows the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the moral strength to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America. THE ARMOR OF LIGHT tracks Reverend Rob Schenck, anti-abortion activist and fixture on the political far right, who breaks with orthodoxy by questioning whether being pro-gun is consistent with being pro-life. Reverend Schenck is shocked and perplexed by the reactions of his long-time friends and colleagues who warn him away from this complex, politically explosive issue.

This film is being screened in partnership with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America of Washtenaw County.

The 2017 documentary "Unrest" is, at its core, a love story. How Jen and her new husband forge their relationship while dealing with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is at once heartbreaking, inspiring, and funny.

Twenty-eight year-old Jennifer Brea is working on her PhD at Harvard and months away from marrying the love of her life when she gets a mysterious fever that leaves her bedridden and looking for answers. Determined to live, she turns her camera on herself and her community— a hidden world of millions confined to their homes and bedrooms by ME, commonly called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

"Unrest" is made by an award-winning team and is supported by the Sundance Institute, Chicken & Egg Pictures, the Harnisch Foundation, BRITDOC's Good Pitch, the Tribeca Film Institute, the Fledgling Fund, IFP, and over 2,593 Kickstarter backers. It premiered in the documentary competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize for editing.

This 90-minute documentary is unrated.