Now entering its 22nd year, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is the premier venue for non-fiction film in the American West. The upcoming festival will take place February 14-23, 2025. Big Sky offers an ideal setting for filmmakers to premiere new work and develop lasting relationships with fellow filmmakers and industry. The festival draws an audience of 20,000 and film entries from every corner of the globe to a uniquely intimate mountain town setting with local Montana flavor. A hybrid festival, audiences can enjoy the festival program live in unique exhibition spaces across downtown Missoula and in Big Sky's virtual cinema from nearly anywhere in the world. Selected for 9 years running by MovieMaker Magazine's 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, BSDFF is a top-100 rated festival on FilmFreeway and is an Academy Award-qualifying festival for short documentaries.

Schedule of Events:

11:30 am: Missoula Children's Theater - Apple Cider Vinegar - 80 minutes
12:00 pm: ZACC

BMCLD - 5 minutes
Swimming with Butterflies - 8 minutes
Through Thin Ice - 11 minutes
Spots - 12 minutes
Taras - 12 minutes
The Grace - 14 minutes
Survival Without Rent - 22 minutes

12:30 pm: Wilma, The Wolves Always Come at Night - 96 minutes
02:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

Another Hayride - 18 minutes
Spaceship Earth - 115 minutes

2:30 pm: ZACC, There Was, There Was Not - 94 minutes
3:00 pm: Wilma, SALLY - 99 minutes
5:15 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

The Face of Aids - 12 minutes
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project - 87 minutes

5:30 pm: Wilma - Butterfly in a Blizzard - 85 minutes
5:45 pm: ZACC

Weekend Visits - 10 minutes
Subhuman Services - 16 minutes
Out Here - 28 minutes
The Quilters - 32 minutes

8:00 pm: Wilma - Secret Mall Apartment - 92 minutes
8:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

Equipo No. 3 - 6 minutes
Daily Worker - 11 minutes
Who Loves The Sun - 20 minutes
Estranged Letters - 15 minutes
Sally Has a Posse - 17 minutes
El Regreso (The Return) - 23 minutes

8:00 pm: ZACC - My Stolen Planet - 82 minutes