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

Stephen and David's Toy Cupboard - 15 minutes
Honor Song - 20 minutes
Pura - 25 minutes
A Move - 27 minutes

12:00 pm: ZACC

Something More, Something Beautiful - 4 minutes
Desert Irrealis - 5 minutes
Red Amaranth - 5 minutes
Roadside Elegiac - 7 minutes
Water Bodies - 10 minutes
Resilient: Norfolk's Race Against the Rising Seas - 14 minutes
Sparks - 15 minutes

2:00 pm: ZACC

BMCLD - 5 minutes
The Starling's Commute - 7 minutes
Randa - 9 minutes
Dears in the Headlights - 16 minutes
Tessitura - 18 minutes
Placekeepers - 25 minutes

2:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - She Cried That Day - 91 minutes
4:30 pm: ZACC

Threads of Anzal - 8 minutes
Dynasty and Destiny - 7 minutes
Swimming with Butterflies - 8 minutes
Saving Superman - 10 minutes
Perfectly a Strangeness - 15 minutes

5:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - The Jungle - 83 minutes
6:45 pm: ZACC - Pavements - 146 minutes
7:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine - 77 minutes