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 - 7 Walks with Mark Brown - 104 minutes
11:45 am: Missoula Children's Theater - Also Resisters - 14 minutes

Your Opinion, Please - 15 minutes
The Other Side of the Mountain - 20 minutes
Loving Bing - 29 minutes

12:30 pm: Wilma - Black Snow - 100 minutes
02:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - Songs of Slow Burning Earth - 95 minutes
02:15 pm: ZACC - Emergent City - 100 minutes
03:15 pm: Wilma - Pee-wee as Himself Pt. 2 - 100 minutes
04:45 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - Homegrown - 109 minutes
05:15 pm: ZACC

Tahnaanooku' - 7 minutes
Flowers of Ukraine - 70 minutes

5:45 pm: Wilma

Harleyville - 39 minutes
The Birds - 39 minutes

7:30 pm: ZACC - Flamingo Camp - 80 minutes
7:45 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

Lacuna - 13 minutes
The Conscience Files - 14 minutes
Bloodhound Dog - 14 minutes
Perfectly a Strangeness - 15 minutes
Recomposing Earth - 28 minutes

8:00 pm: Wilma - The Stand - 95 minutes