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: ZACC - Marching in the Dark - 108 minutes
12:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - The Stolen - 81 minutes
02:15 pm: ZACC - Tiwahe - 90 minutes
02:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

Equipo No. 3 - 6 minutes
Coywolf - 12 minutes
Lacuna - 13 minutes
Headland - 13 minutes
The Birds - 39 minutes

4:45 pm: ZACC

Dalone 'Til Infinity - 9 minutes
Ani - 12 minutes
The Conscience Files - 14 minutes
The Ice Builders - 15 minutes

5:15 pm: Missoula Children's Theater
6:30 pm: ZACC - The White House Effect - 97 minutes
7:45 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

M-OTHER - 18 minutes
Appalheads - 17 minutes
Bouncy Brothers - 20 minutes
Fox Chase Boy - 27 minutes