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Herzog and Jarecki Anchor the 2026 Big Sky Documentary Film Fest
The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival announces the lineup for its 23rd annual incarnation today, and Filmmaker has an exclusive early look at the 46 features and 69 short and mini docs slated for inclusion. Montana’s largest annual cinematic event will roar back to life in Missoula from February 13 through 22, and this year’s program features a slew of world premieres, along with a large handful of films set to debut at Sundance later this month, among them Brydie O’Connor’s Barbara Forever, Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig’s Jaripeo, Rachael J. Morrison’s Joybubbles, and Sam Green’s The Oldest Person in the World.
Other notable titles include Werner Herzog’s Ghost Elephants, which debuted at Venice last fall; Eugene Jarecki’s Julian Assange doc The Six Billion Dollar Man, which won the L’Œil d’or Grand Prize at Cannes; and Christine Turner’s Sun Ra: Do the Impossible, which bowed at Tribeca last spring.
Among the world premieres to be unveiled in Montana are Big Sky Falling, Scott Diener and Mark James’s exposé on a drug-and-murder scandal at Montana State University; Give It a Shot, Vaishali Sinha’s study of a new male contraceptive being developed in India and the U.S.; and Damon Ristau’s How to Kill a Mermaid, an investigation into the death of a teenage scuba diver in Montana’s Glacier National Park.
To see the full lineup, visit the festival’s official website at bigskyfilmfest.org.
