Friday Harbor Film Festival

Rebel with a Clause, the docu-comedy that was nominated for the 2025 FHFF Audience Choice Award for Best "Explorers & Adventures" Feature Film, screens on Friday, September 18 at 7 PM, simultaneously at the San Juan Island Library in Friday Harbor, the Lopez Island Library, and the Shaw Island Community Center. The film will be followed by a pre-re

Join FHFF for a free screening of Champions of the Golden Valley on Aug 21, now playing on San Juan, Lopez & Shaw Islands. No ticket required.

The 14th Annual Friday Harbor Film Festival returns October 22–25, 2026. Save up to $150 with Early Bird Passes, on sale July 5–August 15.

FHFF Best of the Fest | Friday, July 17 at 7 PM • San Juan Island Library & Lopez Island Library What does it mean to truly communicate? It's a question we rarely pause to ask — and one that Parrot Kindergarten, the 2025 FHFF Audience Choice Winner for Best “Things to Consider” Feature Film, answers in ways that are by turns surprising, moving, and

Free screening of The Snake and the Whale — June 26 at 7 PM at San Juan Island Library and Lopez Center. Six-time Emmy Award winner John Carlos Frey examines the Lower Snake River dams and their cascading impact on Idaho's salmon runs and the 74 Southern Resident Orcas whose survival depends on them.

Four events. Six documentary films.

A Vietnam vet. A giant manta ray.

Two extraordinary documentaries. One free evening.

Each month through September, FHFF brings audience-favorite documentaries from the 2025 festival back to the screen — free of charge — on San Juan and Lopez Islands. Three full houses down, six great films to go.

Filmmaker Claire Sandberg knew she had to tell Ramba's story the moment the last circus elephant in Chile was finally cleared for transport to sanctuary. In this director's statement, Sandberg reflects on the journey, the people who made it possible, and what she hopes audiences take away from The Ramba Effect.