2025 Festival
BIG NEWS
FIVE DAY FESTIVAL TO MOVE IN 2025
We are moving The Sun Valley Film Festival from March to the beginning of December. This change will begin in 2025.
The new December time frame will position the Festival as a “must-stop” destination for the big film award-season contenders. This strategic shift will provide SVFF attendees with highly anticipated films and award nominated talent showcasing their work in Sun Valley. Our successful Winter Screening in 2018 of FREE SOLO culminated in an Oscar win for the film a few months later. We hope to bring our Festival supporters and attendees the opportunity to have more experiences like this.
In addition, we are excited to once again serve as an anchor event for Sun Valley during a traditionally quieter time. By hosting the Festival in early December, we want to showcase SVFF as the not-to-be missed kick off for the holiday season and further our mission of enhancing the cultural fabric of our community.
As in previous years, the 2025 Festival will also feature a selection of engaging films exploring a range of places and subjects from emerging, independent filmmakers.
Film Submissions open April 28th, 2025
customer reviews
What people say?
At the festival I can tell people love filmmaking in every aspect – writing, acting, cinematography, and producing. So I’m really excited to be here and meet people who are just as excited about the process as I am.
Yahya Adbul Mateen II
Sun Valley’s intimate size snuffs egos and allows personalities, connections, and the zeal for filmmaking to flourish everywhere from get-togethers in cozy cafe’s to the lofty lifts of Bald Mountain.
Flaunt magazine
It’s wonderfully intimate and remains very high end in both the quality of films presented and the festival itself. Sun Valley has kept its integrity…the magic dust.