Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Chasing Roo. The film exposes the world’s largest commercial killing of land animals—the legally sanctioned harvesting of kangaroos in Australia. Told through the eyes of professional hunters and wildlife rescuers devoted to saving roos, this vérité documentary reveals a little-known industry. Shortlisted for the Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short.

Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Center Punch | San Juan Splitboarding. A short culmination of splitboard footage in the Telluride area from the Spring of 2024 with local riders Harry Kearney, Timmy Taussing, and Hagen Kearney and local filmers Benji Biber, Joe Robertson, and Ben Eng.  

Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Caught, which follows GoodCatch, an organization in Sri Lanka that recycles discarded fishing nets, turning them into surfboard fins. Filmed largely in Arugam Bay, the documentary highlights the beauty of the place and its people while addressing the pollution problems caused by discarded nets. The film reveals how assigning value to waste can inspire sustainability in developing countries. More than a portrait of innovation, Caught is a hopeful story meant to spark conversation and show how small shifts can lead to global change.

Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Call to Serve, which follows a former Army combat engineer haunted by war and survivor’s guilt. When Hurricane Helene strikes, he joins Team Rubicon, a veteran-led disaster response. In the wreckage—and with the support of his wife and fellow veterans—he begins to rebuild purpose, find his voice, and chart a way home.

Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Brothers of the Sea. Bernardo and Diego lived what many would call a dream, surfing perfect waves and being deeply connected to the ocean. However, they also endured immense hardship, raising themselves after being abandoned at a young age. Despite this, they found joy and built lives full of meaning. Watching them grow from orphans to loving fathers is a transformative journey because it challenges us to rethink what success truly means. 

Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Bridgers. Joseph Fletcher is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He aims to use documentary film to explore human's relationship to nature and society, and has a special interest in examining the universal pursuit of play for individuals and communities across the world.

Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Borrowed Time. A woman finds peace during the pandemic in her solitary routine as the innkeeper of a historic Bay Area lighthouse. As her time on the island draws to an end and a return to the world she left behind beckons, life on the island raises larger questions about the nature of our relationship to time, loss, work, and home.

Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Bitter Water. In southern Baja, the Lucero’s lives have been interwoven with fishing for generations. A commercial and subsistence fishery has evolved into a region focused on pesca-tourism with saltwater fly fishing at the core. Bitter Water traces the braided lines of necessity, tradition, and passion at the heart of this story.

Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Big Rock Burning. A powerful documentary on Malibu’s Big Rock community rebuilding after the devastating Palisades Fire. Capturing the raw aftermath, the film tells of neighbors who became first responders—fighting flames with garden hoses or fleeing through fire—showing resilience, courage, and the spirit of survival.

Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Between Moon Tides. In a ribbon of saltmarsh in coastal New England, an intergenerational group of citizen scientists is trying to save the Saltmarsh Sparrow from extinction, one nest at a time.

Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Best Day Ever, which follows adaptive mountain bikers Greg Durso and Allie Bianchi as they face disability with grit, humor, and community. In rural Vermont, trails become more than paths—they break barriers, build belonging, and offer a blueprint for accessibility and independence through the joy of riding.

Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Assynt, an intimate portrait of a remote Scottish Highlands community, weaving voices of crofter descendants and newcomers. Through sweeping landscapes and lyrical imagery, the film explores memory, tradition, and belonging—reflecting on balance with land, community, and the quiet fragility of a fading way of life.

Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Arctic Alchemy, which follows Alaskan adventurer and climate scientist Roman Dial on an expedition to uncover a mysterious watershed poison. Along the journey, he confronts fatherhood, loss, and the wild’s power to break us—and bring us alive. A gripping story of science, resilience, and the human spirit.

Coast Film & Music Festival 2025 presents Annika – Where She Lands. Follow Annika Malacinski, one of the world’s top Nordic Combined athletes, as she pursues Olympic dreams in a sport that still excludes women. More than a race for medals, this is a fight for equality—and the story of a movement.

Let It Kill You, directed by Ben McQueen, follows Nora Vasconcellos on her journey from a small-town skater in Pembroke, MA, to a trailblazing force in skateboarding. With her raw talent, artistic vision, and fearless style, she redefines what it means to be a pro skater, breaking barriers as the first female signed by Adidas.

Follow professional climber Sasha DiGiulian's rise from child prodigy to champion sport climber as she takes her talents to the biggest walls on the planet with a series of bold ascents. As Sasha takes on summit after summit, she faces countless hurdles — from personal attacks to a possible career-ending injury. Driven by breathtaking photography, Here to Climb is a thrilling portrait of a record-breaking female athlete who relentlessly pushes her boundaries and redefines success on her terms.

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, Sugarcane by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie investigates the tragic legacy of Indian residential schools. The film exposes forced separation, assimilation, and abuse while celebrating Native resilience and the fight to heal from intergenerational trauma.

Pay Dirt: The Story of Supercross takes you on a thrilling journey through one of the most demanding and dramatic motorsports in the world. Narrated by Josh Brolin and directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Paul Taublieb, the film blends cinematic storytelling with deep archival research and exclusive interviews. Featuring legends like Jeremy McGrath, Bob Hannah, Ricky Johnson, and Ricky Carmichael, Pay Dirt captures the passion, commitment, and intensity that define Supercross.

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