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:

12:15 pm: ZACC

The Ice Builders - 15 minutes
Birdsong - 52 minutes

12:30 pm: Wilma - Light Darkness Light - 83 minutes
02:30 pm: ZACC

Debtor's Prison - 16 minutes
Land of Destiny - 78 minutes

3:00 pm: Wilma - As the Tide Comes In - 88 minutes
5:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

Sanctuary - 14 minutes
The Hottest August - 95 minutes

5:00 pm: ZACC

Spots - 12 minutes
The Wrestlers of Dakar - 13 minutes
The Quilters - 32 minutes

5:30 pm: Wilma - Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted - 95 minutes
7:00 pm: ZACC

Dynasty and Destiny - 7 minutes
Saving Superman - 10 minutes
Emilia - 20 minutes
The People Could Fly - 22 minutes
Town Square - 33 minutes

7:45 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - The Shepherd and the Bear - 100 minutes
8:00 pm: Wilma

Motorcycle Moment - 6 minutes
Burden of Dreams - 95 minutes