Delve into the cinematic world of the Friday Harbor Film Festival. Whether you choose to journey through our interactive online guide or relish a printed copy aboard the Washington State Ferries or at our Friday Harbor office, our guide promises a rich exploration of this year's outstanding films and events.

Each year, we curate a comprehensive 60-page guide that brings you closer to the heart of the festival. The Guide includes detailed film descriptions, event schedules, information on the esteemed Audience Choice Awards, and special spotlights on our honorees. Traditionally available in print on the Washington State Ferries and at our office in Friday Harbor, we're thrilled to introduce our fully interactive online version this year. Dive into the festival experience from any device—desktop, tablet, or phone.

The Festival through the years.

Dive deep into the rich legacy of the Friday Harbor Film Festival. While we currently showcase the 2023 Online Program Guide on our virtual bookshelf, in the coming months, we will be adding our cherished collections from previous years. Revisit and discover the historic and award-winning documentaries that FHFF has celebrated annually. We invite you to journey with us through the annals of cinematic excellence and to check back often as we continue to archive our festival's storied history.

Schedule :

October 26, 2023

1:00 PM : ENVIRONMENT - IN-THEATRE THEMATIC SHORTS BLOCK - Grange

Runtime: l hr 50 owns

Films in block : Evergreen Farming Our Future Healy Island Marble Butterfly Salted Earth Wild Territory

4:00 PM : MARINE ECOLOGY - IN-THEATRE THEMATIC SHORTS BLOCK - Grange

Runtime: l hr 36 mins

Films in block : Banks Call of the Orcas Into the Stillaguamish Manta Watch Quahoggers

7:00 PM : TALES FROM THE HEART - IN-THEATRE THEMATIC SHORTS BLOCK - Grange

Runtime : 2 hrs 3$ mins

Films in block :

Ashley Martin

The Bench

A Fiber Story

From Sweden with Love

The Last Act

Our Sacred Obligation

reverence

She Marches In Chinatown Your Water Can be Safe

October 27, 2023

10:00am : MAMA Bears - SJCT WHITTIER

10:15am : Cowboy Poets - SJCT GUBELMAN

10:00am : We are Tenacious - GRANGE

10:00am : Deep Rising - PALACE FRONT

10:15am : with short film: Any Fool Knows - PALACE BACK

1:00pm : PATRICK AND THE WHALE with short Film: Call of the Orcas - SJCT WHITTIER

1:15pm : BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE CARRY IT ON - SJCT GUBELMAN

1:00pm : with short films Farming Our Future, & Your Water Can Be Safe - GRANGE

1:00pm : PATROL - PALACE FRONT

1:15pm : THE SPACE RACE - PALACE BACK

4:00pm : BEFORE THE SUN - GRANGE

4:00pm : 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL - PALACE FRONT

4:15pm : with short film The Last Act - PALACE BACK

7:00pm : OPENING NIGHT GALA Including a screening of WILD BEAUTY - SJCT WHITTIER

7:00pm : BAD PRESS - GRANGE

October 28, 2023

10:00am : With Short films: Island Marble Butterfly. Song of the Hermit - SJCT WHITTIER

10:15am :We are TENACIOUS - SJCT GUBELMAN

10:00am :Film Makers Forum Talk with Filmmakers - GRANGE

10:00am :Big Wave Guardians - PALACE FRONT

10:15am :With Short film Any Fool Knows - PALACE BACK

1:00pm : BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE Carry it on - SJCT WHITTIER

1:15pm : With Short Film : Into the Stillaguamish- SJCT GUBELMAN

1:00pm : with short Films : Ashley Martin, The Bench, & The Fiber Story - GRANGE

1:00pm : with short films Healy, & Salted Earth - PALACE FRONT

1:15pm : THE SPACE RACE - PALACE BACK

4:00pm : COVENANT OF THE SALMON PEOPLE - SJCT WHITTIER

4:15pm : ELEMENTAL REIMAGINE WILDFIRE- SJCT GUBELMAN

4:00pm : BEFORE THE SUN - GRANGE

4:00pm : NUCLEAR NOW- PALACE FRONT

4:15pm : 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL - PALACE BACK

7:00pm : With the short film Call of the Orcas - SJCT WHITTIER

7:15pm : MAMA BEARS- SJCT GUBELMAN

7:00pm : With short film Our Sacred Obligation - GRANGE

7:00pm : CARLOS- PALACE FRONT

7:15pm : DEEP RISING - PALACE BACK

October 29, 2023

10:00am : COWBOY POETS - SJCT WHITTIER

10:15am : with short film Into the Stitlaguamish - SJCT GUBELMAN

10:00am : with short film Our Sacred Obligation - GRANGE

10:00am : with short films Healy, & Salted Earth - PALACE FRONT

10:15am : with short film The Last Act - PALACE BACK

1:00pm : COVENANT OF THE SALMON PEOPLE - SJCT WHITTIER

1:15pm : with short films:Farming Our Future. & Your 1:00pm : Water Can Be Safe  - SJCT GUBELMAN    

1:00pm : with short films:Ashley Martin, The Bench, & The Fiber Story - GRANGE    

1:00pm : BIG WAVE GUARDIANS - PALACE FRONT

1:15pm : PATROL - PALACE BACK

4:00pm : WILD BEAUTY Mustang Spirit of the West - SJCT WHITTIER

4:15pm : with short Films: Island Marble Butterfly, & Song of the Hermit - SJCT GUBELMAN

4:00pm : BAD PRESS - GRANGE

4:00pm : CARLOS - PALACE FRONT

4:15pm : NUCLEAR NOW - PALACE BACK

7:00pm : AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS

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Schedule :

October 30 - November 5, 2023

The On-Demand Festival is back by popular demand.

Friday Harbor Film Festival presents the ON-DEMAND FESTIVAL, a week of films and events available 24/7 on our website. FHFF.ORG from

October 30 - November 5, including:

- Most of the features and alt of the short films from the In-Theatre Festival.'

- Additional excellent features and short films not shown during the In-Theatre Festival

In-Theatre Filmmaker O&As and the Filmmafters' Forum

On-Demand Shorts

Banks

Directed by David Sanchez. Bittie-Jazz Marcuzzo-Ray. Jerome Lewa

An eco-educator crisscrosses the riverbanks from the Mingan islands to Montreal to meet the guardians of the St Lawrence River, our greatest jewel

EVER GREEN

Directed by MarhA Dworkin and Melissa M. Young

How a small organization mobilized their island community to protect forests, farmlands, and shorelines from development in order to preserve a healthy rural way of life.

From Sweden, With Love

Directed by Muhammad Umar Saeed

Hanna a girl from Sweden, starts a school for Pakhiwas (Nomads) in Lahore. Pakistan. This school in a tent is changing the lives of the most unprivileged of the society.

Meaningful Meals

Directed by Franco Duerme

A minimum wage worker struggles to find meaning in their meals. What ensues is a journey to find that meaning and why the things they eat are important.

Reverence

Directed by M Freeman

A poetic, kaleidoscopic meditation on the irrepressible awe of being, this is part of Cinema Divina. M's series of genre-fluid films created through contemplative practice.

Wild Territory

Directed by Samuel Steiner Riley

Wild Territory explores the relationship between a daring wildlife photographer. Etienne Littlefair. and the vast freshwater ecosystems that define Australia's far north.

Cu Lao Cham: Island of Life

Directed by James Borton

On a pristine archipelago off Vietnam's central coast islanders have adopted conservation and sustainability practices to provide an ecologically balanced future.

Finding Lillian: The lost patients of Washington's abandoned mental hospital

Directed by Lauren Frohne

Fifty years after Northern State Hospital closed, there's scant evidence its patients ever existed. A former social worker and a dedicated great-granddaughter work to unearth the truth about the mental institution and revive stories of its forgotten patients.

Manta Watch: Discovering Aotearoa's Gentle Giants

Directed by Rebecca Pratt

Journey with Manta Watch Now Zealand's team and citizen scientists to track down the world's most intelligent and most endangered fish, the Oceanic Mania Ray.

Quahoggers: Rhode Island's Iconic S hell-fishermen

Directed by by David Heifer Welts

Spend time offshore with Rhode Island's legendary Quahoggers. shell fishermen who dig clams, as thoy practice their centuries-old craft

She Marches in Chinatown

Directed by Delia Chen

In 1952, Asian American girls had no extra-curricular activities until Ruby Chow created the Seattle Chinese Community Girls Drill Team, the only one of its kind in the world.

In the Whale

Directed by David Abet

The true story cf Cope Cods last-rernoining commercial lobster dive* who was engulfed by a humpback whale's missive mouth and how he survived

Keeper of the Bay

Directed by Ashley LoFaso

A documentary film about marine conservation through the eyes of a native Hawaiian woman as she struggles to continue a family baykeeping legacy

Native Transformations in the Pacific Northwest

Directed by Jordan Rtber

explore the legacy of cultural trauma on Native Americans through three ntimate portraits of tribal members struggling with substance abuse and addition as they search for healing

Tale of a Whale

Directed by PhoeOe Brock Dunbar

Community volunteers in Sooke. BC salvaged a gray whale that had died and washed up in a local cove. Its ottcutaled skeleton was hung from the rafters of Sooke's newly built community school

A Life at Sea

Directed by Elisa Mand and Bente Rohde
An intimate look into the emotional wort three Busumer crab fishermen, who f<gh livelihood lhe« f.imty on land. and. abo" absolute treedorr at sea

Killing Our Saline Lakes

Directed by Kevin Clark

Lower snow and ram levels are making an uncertaii future for the birds on the Pacific Ftyway thai depend on rare hypersafane lakes - Lake Abert m Oregon Mono I ake in California and the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

Space, Hope and Charity

Directed by Sandy Cumrrungs

Follow the journey of Charity Woodrum who overcomes poverty and tragedy while chasing her dream of becoming, an astrophysicist The film is a story of love and loss, and of finding purpose, even joy again after losing everything

You Just Can't See Them From The Road

Directed by Keely Brazil Covello and Michaela Brazil Gillies

This documentary paints a portrait of modern West Coast ranchers—invisible to and misunderstood by the rapidly modernizing society thev sustain.

Date : October 26, 2023 - October 29, 2023 : In-Person

October 30, 2023 - November 5, 2023 : On Demand

Location : Various Location

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