Explore Global Issues Through Documentaries

Bajio Documentary Film Festival 2025!!!

CINE COMUNITARIO - TEQUISQUIAPAN

SAT 29th NOV - 7pm: 'On The Edge of Asylum', 'Rebound', 'Learning to Walk', 'Island of Dreams', 'Weaving Hope', 'Goose Words', 'Buscando Pam', 'San Esteban', 'The Feather.'

MON 1st DEC - 7pm: 'Did You Guys Eat?' 'Guerilla', 'I'm Leaving and I'm Becoming Pope', 'The Goals of August.'

TUE 2nd DEC - 7pm: 'OYA', 'Forest Guardian', 'Enrico Calamai', 'The Femmes Fatales of West Australian Wrestling', 'In Zainab's Heaven'.

CINETECA NACIONAL - QUERETARO

SAT 6th DEC: CLOSING CEREMONY - 5pm featuring 'Dabucuri', 'El Pan de Papa' & 'Anita...por la tierra, por la vida'

Empowering Voices, Inspiring Change

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Celebrating Local Stories, Global Impact

The Bajio Documentary Film Festival showcases local documentaries addressing global issues, highlighting the voices of activists, community organizations, and indigenous groups across Querétaro, San Miguel de Allende, and Guanajuato.

Bajio Documentary Film Festival

Showcasing local stories that address global issues through powerful documentaries.

BDFF connects audiences with powerful narratives that inspire change, fostering a deeper understanding of shared challenges through the art of documentary filmmaking.

Film at the Front Line

Highlighting local filmmakers and activists who address pressing global issues through their impactful documentaries.

Community Engagement

Connecting communities with global narratives through film, fostering understanding and collaboration among diverse groups.

Filmmakers

Open to all filmmakers, from students to seasoned professionals, the BDFF is a small but punchy event which aims to gather filmmakers with activists, defenders, community organizations and indigenous groups, using film as a catalyzing point of strength and influence. The opening night will feature a red carpet event at the Cineteca Nacional in Queretaro, followed by a series of subsequent events across a variety of cinemas and local community organizations in the region. Selected films will be shown to a variety of filmmaking professionals as well as be sited within a framework of socio-environmental activists and agents for change.

The BDFF is a festival which showcases real, on-the-ground change taking place across gloabl communities.

We're not just film; we're film at the front line.