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: Missoula Children's Theater - Fairy Creek - 86 minutes
12:30 pm: Wilma - Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other - 100 minutes
12:45 pm: ZACC

CamperForce - 16 minutes
The Prison In Twelve Landscapes - 90 minutes

3:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - Snowland - 92 minutes
3:15 pm: Wilma

The Starling's Commute - 7 minutes
Headland - 13 minutes
Lifeline - 16 minutes
Nine Easy Dances - 20 minutes
The Ban - 27 minutes

3:30 pm: ZACC - Saints And Warriors - 97 minutes
5:30 pm: Wilma - Mistress Dispeller - 95 minutes
5:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

Perseids - 22 minutes
KOKA - 48 minutes

6:00 pm: ZACC

Threads of Anzal - 8 minutes
The Congress - 11 minutes
The Wrestlers of Dakar - 13 minutes
The Falcons - 14 minutes
The Granny and Fishes - 28 minutes

7:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater
Car Wash - 6 minutes
Union - 104 minutes

8:00 pm: Wilma - Johatsu - Into Thin Air - 90 minutes
8:30 pm: ZACC - My Sextortion Diary - 64 minutes