JHiFF 2025
Festival Films
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If These Walls Could Rock
The untold story of the Sunset Marquis—the Hollywood hotel where rock stars checked in, passed out, and made history.
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The Cycle of Love
In 1977, PK, a 23-year-old Delhi street artist from a poor, ‘untouchable’ family, picked up a handful of paintbrushes and a second-hand bicycle and set off on a 6000-mile cross-continent mission - to find Lotta, the woman who had captured his heart.
A love story like no other, THE CYCLE OF LOVE is an inspiring, heart-warming, epic true-life adventure about the search for self-belief and risking everything for what your heart tells you.
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Inaccessible
A ski film veteran looks behind the steepest lines and biggest peaks to experience the limits of access to public land on an expedition into a landscape divided. Inaccessible explores the boundaries that partition millions of acres of public land from the public, and Griffin Post’s search for something deeper than snow.
Limited to passholders.
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#Melissa
#RealLife takes on a new meaning when a social-media influencer's quest for the perfect photo leaves her injured and isolated in the wilderness of Grand Teton National Park.
Limited to passholders.
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an ocean’s dream of itself: The Making of a World Premiere
In a place where nature composes its own symphony, world-class artists gather in Teton Village to premiere music as timeless and majestic as the Tetons. Energy builds over the span of a week towards the world premiere of composer Alex Turley's the ocean's dream of itself at the Grand Teton Music Festival.
Limited to passholders.
Learn more about an ocean’s dream of itself: The Making of a World Premiere.
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Rebuilding
After wildfires take his ranch, a cowboy named Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp, finding community with others who lost homes, including his daughter and ex-wife.
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ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT
André, a brilliant idiot, is dying because he didn't get a colonoscopy. His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence, and insatiable curiosity send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humor.
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Artists in Residence
In the 1950s, three female artists from the Bowery defied societal norms to prioritize their art over traditional roles. The film explores their emotional journey as artists and parents through interviews with them and their grown children.
Limited to passholders.
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Sentimental Value
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.
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An Autumn Summer
Kevin and his girlfriend Cody spend the final month of their family's annual Northern Michigan lake house trip savoring peaceful days and adventurous nights, knowing their time together is fleeting and that soon their lives will take them on separate paths.
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SWIFT. SILENT. DEEP.
SWIFT. SILENT. DEEP. explores the roots of North America's most infamous ski fraternity, the Jackson Hole Air Force, and the beginnings of the modern American ski bum.
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Charliebird
Al (Samantha Smart) works as a music therapist at a children’s hospital, taking things day by day and trying to make ends meet. Charlie (Gabriela Ochoa Perez) comes into her life as a patient, an ever immovable and unmotivated teenager. As their worlds collide following the revelation of a secret passion project, Al and the pessimistic young Charlie become a source of strength and love for each other whilst they chart a course through an unknown future.
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Song Sung Blue
Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians (Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson) form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it's never too late to find love and follow your dreams.