22nd Annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

Now entering its 22nd year, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is the premier venue for non-fiction film in the American West. 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.
Big Sky 2025 is honored to present a very special retrospective of films by two acclaimed documentarians, Matt Wolf and Brett Story. Each year the festival spotlights a special body of work by documentary filmmakers that have shaped the documentary industry with their artistic vision and cutting edge ideas. Explore all the films in the Matt Wolf and Brett Story retrospectives.