The AfterImage Film Festival (AIFF) is hosting a special “Best of Fest” event on Friday, December 6 at Water Street Studios in Batavia. Audiences will have another opportunity to catch the very best short films presented during the inaugural film festival in September.

“Best of Fest” will feature four of the highest scoring short films as voted on by attendees of the festival. Those films include “Homesick,” which won the Hollis Family Audience Award, local productions “Runner” and “SEARED: The Journey of a Chef;” and "Guns Found Here" which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival. Filmmakers from one of the short films will be in attendance and participate in a post-screening Q&A session!

Tickets available here!

ABOUT THE FILMS

'Homesick' - Winner of the Hollis Family Audience Award!
Two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Murai braves danger and wanders through the no-go zone in order to spend time with Jun, his eight-year-old son.

'Guns Found Here' - SXSW 2019 Premiere!
When there’s a gun crime in America, there’s only one place to go to trace the gun back to its owner: Martinsburg, West Virginia. That’s where the ATF’s National Tracing Center handles roughly 8,000 active traces per day — all while inside a government-mandated technology time-capsule that makes searching a database of gun owners impossible

‘Runner’ - Award Winning Local Film!
A woman goes for a jog and witnesses something she can't run away from.

'SEARED: The Journey of a Chef' - Filmmakers in Attendance!
Beaten by a life of injustice and crime, a young man's plan to end it all turns into a life of renewed hope and a passionate career as a chef