SIFF DocFest
Annual weeklong film festival bringing you the best documentaries from around the world
October 16-23, 2025
Passes and individual tickets on sale now.
Keep your finger on the pulse of the best new documentaries from around the world at the fifth annual SIFF DocFest.
Join us for this weeklong celebration of the documentary form, with most screenings taking place at SIFF Cinema Uptown. This year, one special screening (on October 19) will be held at SIFF Cinema Downtown!
PASSES - Save 50% with a festival pass!
$125 ($100 SIFF Members)
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS
$20 ($15 SIFF Members) | $19 (Seniors, Students) | $15 (Child)
September 8 - Lineup announced + Member Pre-Sale, 10:00am PT
September 10 - On sale to general public, 10:00am PT
DocFest: Space Cowboy
USA | 2024 | 98 min. | Marah Strauch, Bryce Leavitt
October 16, 2025
Thrill to the high-flying story of Joe Jennings, a pioneer of skydiving cinematography and gasp-inducing aerial stunts, as he attempts the one stunt that has eluded him throughout his death-defying life.
DocFest: Runa Simi
Peru | 2025 | 86 min. | Augusto Zegarra
October 17, 2025
A charismatic Peruvian voice actor and his son embark on an extraordinary quest: to dub Disney’s The Lion King into their native language of Quechua, the most widely spoken Indigenous language in South America.
DocFest: Love+War
USA | 2025 | 96 min. | E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
October 17, 2025
Oscar® winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (The Rescue, DocFest 2021) turn their camera on Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Lynsey Addario as she documents the war in Ukraine and reflects on her career spent on the front lines.
DocFest: Widow Champion
Kenya | 2025 | 95 min. | Zippy Kimundu
October 18, 2025
Fifteen years after being thrown off her land by her in-laws, a Kenyan widow transforms herself into a fierce advocate for women’s land rights in her community, rallying her fellow widows to reclaim their rightful property.
DocFest: 25 Cats From Qatar
USA | 2025 | 95 min. | Mye Hoang
October 18, 2025
An American flight attendant embarks on a bold, four-day mission to rescue abandoned cats from the streets of Doha for adoption in the USA in this compelling, heartwarming new film from director Mye Hoang (Cat Daddies, SIFF 2022). Director Mye Hoang scheduled to attend.
DocFest: Steal This Story, Please!
USA | 2025 | 101 min. | Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
October 18, 2025
This riveting portrait of "Democracy Now!"'s Amy Goodman spotlights journalism's power—and peril—amid rising corporate control and political attacks on the press.
DocFest: Speak.
USA | 2025 | 103 min. | Jennifer Tiexiera, Guy Mossman
October 19, 2025
Five bold young voices go on a high-stakes journey to conquer the Super Bowl of public speaking, offering a masterclass in courage, conviction, and the kind of hope that refuses to be silenced. Co-director Guy Mossman, producer Pamela Griner, and special guests scheduled to attend.
DocFest - A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
USA | 2025 | 87 min. | Oriel Pe’er
October 19, 2025
Follow trailblazing trans icon and activist Peppermint’s rise from a struggling Harlem queen to history-making turns on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Broadway, in this documentary that pulls back the curtain on fame, transition, and the cost of living in the spotlight as a Black trans woman.
DocFest: Cutting Through Rocks
Iran | 2025 | 95 min. | Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni
October 19, 2025
The first elected councilwoman of a remote Iranian village sparks a movement—and mounting backlash—when she urges the area’s young women to question long-held patriarchal traditions in this Sundance award-winning documentary.
DocFest - Mugaritz: No Bread, No Dessert
Spain | 2024 | 95 min. | Paco Plaza
October 20, 2025
Director Paco Plaza takes us behind the closed doors of the legendary, Michelin-starred restaurant Mugaritz, where chef Andoni Luis Aduriz and his inventive team reinvent fine dining with a bold, boundary-pushing new menu each year.
DocFest: 2000 Meters to Andriivka
Ukraine | 2025 | 106 min. | Mstyslav Chernov
October 21, 2025
The Oscar®-winning team behind 20 Days in Mariupol return with a searing, unvarnished portrait of the toll of the Russia-Ukraine war on Ukrainian soldiers, told from a deeply personal and devastatingly graphic vantage point. Winner of Sundance’s Directing Award for World Cinema Documentary.
DocFest: The Secret of Me
United Kingdom | 2025 | 97 min. | Grace Hughes-Hallett
October 22, 2025
A shocking medical discovery turns a college student’s life upside-down in this gripping film from the team behind Three Identical Strangers. Subject Jim Ambrose scheduled to attend.
DocFest - Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
USA | 2025 | 84 min. | Christine Turner
October 23, 2025
A kaleidoscopic portrait of the visionary jazz musician, composer, and poet known as Sun Ra and the musical, historical, and philosophical currents that shaped him.
DocFest: Cover-Up
USA | 2025 | 117 min. | Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus
October 23, 2025
Urgent and deeply reported, Laura Poitras (All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, DocFest 2022) and Mark Obenhaus (“Frontline”) profile renowned investigative reporter Seymour Hersh in this arresting reflection on power and accountability.
