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:

12:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

Ani - 12 minutes
Iranian Yellow Pages - 12 minutes
Light of Light - 13 minutes
Where the Wind Blows - 17 minutes
Placekeepers - 25 minutes

1:30 pm: ZACC - Personale - 93 minutes
2:00 pm: Roxy - I Am The River, The River Is Me - 89 minutes
3:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - Fault Lines - 79 minutes
4:30 pm: ZACC

Little Liberty - 3 minutes
The Starling's Commute - 7 minutes
Livestreams with GrandmaPuzzles - 7 minutes
Through Thin Ice - 11 minutes
The Grace - 14 minutes

4:30 pm: Roxy

Lead it Go - 23 minutes
One in Five Hundred - 57 minutes

5:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater
7:00 pm: Roxy - KIX - 92 minutes
7:30 pm: ZACC

Your Opinion, Please - 15 minutes
Bouncy Brothers - 20 minutes
Harleyville - 39 minutes

8:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - UNEARTH - 93 minutes