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:

12:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - Memories of Love Returned - 77 minutes
12:30 pm: Wilma

Little Liberty - 3 minutes
Livestreams with GrandmaPuzzles - 7 minutes
My Back Pages - 10 minutes
Randa - 9 minutes
Dalone 'Til Infinity - 9 minutes
Salvation Mountain - Leonard Knight - 20 minutes
Adidas Owns the Reality - 22 minutes
1:00 pm: ZACC
Bayard and Me - 16 minutes
Teenage - 80 minutes

2:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

Coywolf - 12 minutes
Tessitura - 18 minutes
Encounters in Asturias - 21 minutes
Chasing Roo - 35 minutes

3:00 pm: Wilma - Pee-wee as Himself Pt. 1 - 100 minutes
3:30 pm: ZACC - Things That Happen On Earth - 83 minutes
5:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

I Remember: A Film about Joe Brainard - 25 minutes
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell - 70 minutes

5:30 pm: Wilma - Row of Life - 80 minutes
6:00 pm: ZACC

Dears in the Headlights - 16 minutes
In Limbo - 71 minutes

7:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - The Flamingo - 78 minutes
8:00 pm: Wilma - Stolen Kingdom - 83 minutes
8:30 pm: ZACC

Daily Worker - 11 minutes
The Conscience Files - 14 minutes
Survival Without Rent - 22 minutes
The Ban - 27 minutes