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:

February 14, 2025

7:00 pm: Wilma, Helen and the Bear - 81 minutes

February 15, 2025

11:30 am: Missoula Children's Theater - Apple Cider Vinegar - 80 minutes
12:00 pm: ZACC

BMCLD - 5 minutes
Swimming with Butterflies - 8 minutes
Through Thin Ice - 11 minutes
Spots - 12 minutes
Taras - 12 minutes
The Grace - 14 minutes
Survival Without Rent - 22 minutes

12:30 pm: Wilma, The Wolves Always Come at Night - 96 minutes
02:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

Another Hayride - 18 minutes
Spaceship Earth - 115 minutes

2:30 pm: ZACC, There Was, There Was Not - 94 minutes
3:00 pm: Wilma, SALLY - 99 minutes
5:15 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

The Face of Aids - 12 minutes
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project - 87 minutes

5:30 pm: Wilma - Butterfly in a Blizzard - 85 minutes
5:45 pm: ZACC

Weekend Visits - 10 minutes
Subhuman Services - 16 minutes
Out Here - 28 minutes
The Quilters - 32 minutes

8:00 pm: Wilma - Secret Mall Apartment - 92 minutes
8:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

Equipo No. 3 - 6 minutes
Daily Worker - 11 minutes
Who Loves The Sun - 20 minutes
Estranged Letters - 15 minutes
Sally Has a Posse - 17 minutes
El Regreso (The Return) - 23 minutes

8:00 pm: ZACC - My Stolen Planet - 82 minutes

February 16, 2025

12:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - Memories of Love Returned - 77 minutes
12:30 pm: Wilma

Little Liberty - 3 minutes
Livestreams with GrandmaPuzzles - 7 minutes
My Back Pages - 10 minutes
Randa - 9 minutes
Dalone 'Til Infinity - 9 minutes
Salvation Mountain - Leonard Knight - 20 minutes
Adidas Owns the Reality - 22 minutes
1:00 pm: ZACC
Bayard and Me - 16 minutes
Teenage - 80 minutes

2:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

Coywolf - 12 minutes
Tessitura - 18 minutes
Encounters in Asturias - 21 minutes
Chasing Roo - 35 minutes

3:00 pm: Wilma - Pee-wee as Himself Pt. 1 - 100 minutes
3:30 pm: ZACC - Things That Happen On Earth - 83 minutes
5:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

I Remember: A Film about Joe Brainard - 25 minutes
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell - 70 minutes

5:30 pm: Wilma - Row of Life - 80 minutes
6:00 pm: ZACC

Dears in the Headlights - 16 minutes
In Limbo - 71 minutes

7:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - The Flamingo - 78 minutes
8:00 pm: Wilma - Stolen Kingdom - 83 minutes
8:30 pm: ZACC

Daily Worker - 11 minutes
The Conscience Files - 14 minutes
Survival Without Rent - 22 minutes
The Ban - 27 minutes

February 17, 2025

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

February 18, 2025

12:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

Ani - 12 minutes
Iranian Yellow Pages - 12 minutes
Light of Light - 13 minutes
Where the Wind Blows - 17 minutes
Placekeepers - 25 minutes

1:30 pm: ZACC - Personale - 93 minutes
2:00 pm: Roxy - I Am The River, The River Is Me - 89 minutes
3:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - Fault Lines - 79 minutes
4:30 pm: ZACC

Little Liberty - 3 minutes
The Starling's Commute - 7 minutes
Livestreams with GrandmaPuzzles - 7 minutes
Through Thin Ice - 11 minutes
The Grace - 14 minutes

4:30 pm: Roxy

Lead it Go - 23 minutes
One in Five Hundred - 57 minutes

5:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater
7:00 pm: Roxy - KIX - 92 minutes
7:30 pm: ZACC

Your Opinion, Please - 15 minutes
Bouncy Brothers - 20 minutes
Harleyville - 39 minutes

8:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - UNEARTH - 93 minutes

February 19, 2025

11:30 am: ZACC - Marching in the Dark - 108 minutes
12:00 pm: Missoula Children's Theater - The Stolen - 81 minutes
02:15 pm: ZACC - Tiwahe - 90 minutes
02:30 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

Equipo No. 3 - 6 minutes
Coywolf - 12 minutes
Lacuna - 13 minutes
Headland - 13 minutes
The Birds - 39 minutes

4:45 pm: ZACC

Dalone 'Til Infinity - 9 minutes
Ani - 12 minutes
The Conscience Files - 14 minutes
The Ice Builders - 15 minutes

5:15 pm: Missoula Children's Theater
6:30 pm: ZACC - The White House Effect - 97 minutes
7:45 pm: Missoula Children's Theater

M-OTHER - 18 minutes
Appalheads - 17 minutes
Bouncy Brothers - 20 minutes
Fox Chase Boy - 27 minutes

February 20, 2025

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

February 21, 2025

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

February 22, 2025

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

February 23, 2025

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

Date: February 14 - 23, 2025

Location: Various Venues In Missoula, MT 59802

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