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:

1:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - Films You Missed - 60 minutes
1:00 pm: Wilma

Puppet Kitchen - 8 minutes
A Wayward Feeling - 11 minutes
Where We Once Roamed - 15 minutes
St. Marie, Montana - 17 minutes
Wondrous Night: Cooke City under Starlight - 20 minutes
Uncovering Animal Minds - 27 minutes

1:15 pm: ZACC - Two Medicine - 90 minutes
3:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

Appalheads - 17 minutes
Sally Has a Posse - 17 minutes
Perseids - 22 minutes
Loving Bing - 29 minutes
Chasing Roo - 35 minutes

3:30 pm: ZACC - Wild Magic - 80 minutes
4:00 pm: Wilma

Vroom - minutes
It’s Hard to Kill a Cowboy - minutes
One Soul, Two Homes - minutes
The Winter Cycle - minutes
Honor Song - 20 minutes
Salvation Mountain - Leonard Knight - 20 minutes

5:45 pm: ZACC - Awards Screening 1 - 60 minutes
6:00 pm: Wilma - Suburban Fury - 117 minutes
7:45 pm: ZACC - Awards Screening 2 - 60 minutes