🎬 2025 Official Film Selections
We are excited to announce the 94 films officially selected for this year’s Royal Starr International Film Festival, hosted at the iconic Birmingham 8 Theater in Downtown Birmingham, Michigan.
This year’s program showcases an incredible mix of powerful documentaries, captivating narratives, bold experimental works, and heartfelt stories from around the world—with a strong showing from Michigan filmmakers.
📽️ Full List of Official Selections:
Meeting the Buddha
Moon Ghost Returns
My Marriage is on the Rocks
New Thread
No Place Like Home
Not Just Another Day
Not So Perfect
Nothing Else
Notifeye
Other Side
Peabrain
Pigs in a Blanket
Red Tile
Redemption Road
River of Fire
See You Tomorrow
Self-Assembly Required
Separated
Shadows of Memory
Shark
Silos
Silver Shorts
Slay the Dragon
Some Time Later
Soul of a Nation
Step On a Crack
Storm of the Century
Sunday Roast
The Ballad of Rabbit Foot Joe
The Big Pour
The Building
The Burden They Bear
The Great Correction
The Hitchhiker at the Lone Oak Tree
The Last Harangue
The Nesting Doll
The Real Gun Show
The Shifting Starship
The Third
Thorns
Through My Eyes
Time Capsule
We Run This City
What Would Mr. Rogers Do?
What You Eat
Wronged: The Maurice Carter Story
Yellow Wallpaper
1969 : Killers, Freaks, and Radicals
A Perpetual Rodeo
A Quiet Winter
An Easy Job
An Old Friend
An outlook on your life
Aneaus: The Boy Who Could Dance
As Our Tides Turn
Axie and Chad
BEARS
Bad Penny
Bill W Conscious Contact
Boneless 180
Boots on the Ground for Art
Breasts Not Required
Butterfly Kiss
Chanting of the Dunes
Citizen: The Jilmar Ramos Gomez Story
Come Out, Wherever You Are
DAGDA
Devil's Paradise
Devolution
Did You Guys Eat? / Ya Comieron: Stories of Michigan Agriculture
Dog Days
Dreamland
Drowned
Erebus
Family Fling
Fire Flower
Ghost Glacier
Giselou
Going Down
Grillo (2024) - Break the Cycle
G’itis Baggs - Country Soul (music video)
How Long Can You Go Without Breathing?
I Agree With You
I O U till I find Y
Invaluable
Is That All There Is?
Kill Will
Lapse
Lead and Copper
Left on Read
Lightly Ghosted
Lost & Found
Lost Together
MERGE
Mama's Voice
We invite you to join us in Downtown Birmingham for a weekend of unforgettable stories, artist Q&As, networking, and community.
🎟️ Festival schedule and ticket info coming soon at www.royalstarr.org