🎬 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:
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
Bad Penny
BEARS
Bill W Conscious Contact
Boneless 180
Boots on the Ground for Art
Breasts Not Reqired
Butterfly Kiss
Chanting of the Dunes
Choeurs Alantiques
Citizen: The Jilmar Ramos Gomez Story
Come Out, Wherever You Are
DAGDA
Devil's Paradise
Devolution
Did You Guys Eat
Dog Days
Dreamland
Drowned
Erebus
Family Fling
Fire Flower
Ghost Glacier
Giselou
Gitis Baggs - Country Soul
Going Down
Grillo - Break the Cycle
How Long Can You Go Without Breathing?
I Agree With You
I Got Snow Hat
I O U till I find Y
Invaluable
Is That All There Is?
Kill Will
Lamp Fight
Lapse
Lead and Copper
Left on Read
Lightly Ghosted
Lost & Found
Lost Together
Making Megaforce
Meeting the Buddha
MERGE
Moon Ghost Returns
Mr. Copycat
My More Beautiful Ghost
Paint
Peabrain
Port Sanilac: Harbor of Refuge
Power Lines
Real Fake War
Redemption Road
Regents
Room of Passage
Rules of Living
SCATTERBRAIN
Single Use
Skin On Skin
Songs From the Sky
Stay Alive
Stepping Into The Shade
Stories Retold
Tales from the Atlantic Beyond
The Apple Picker's Son
The Ballad of the Man Who Once Was
The Bus
The Correction
The Filmmaker
The Free End Alone
The Hitchhiker at the Lone Oak Tree
The Iceland Cycling Expedition
The Last Bite
The Old Man and The Robot
The Recipe
The Shifting Starship
The Silver Lake
The Skullys in: Comic Book Kooks
The Spirit of Sleeping Bear Dunes
The Threshold
The Wildman of Shaggy Creek
Tormented
Trail Mix
VIOLATOR
Voices of Tomorrow
Water Lilies
What Happens Next?
Where Impact Lands: The X Games Intern Experience
Whispers From the Fire
Who Knows Poker?
Wronged: The Maurice Carter Story
Zaa
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