The 2025 Soo Film Festival took place September 10-14 at the historic Soo Theatre and Bayliss Public Library, a Superior District Library, in downtown Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Festival attendees are asked to choose their favorites by ballot. By audience acclaim, those films are:
So Fades the Light, directed by Get Super Rad
Did You Guys Eat? / Ya Comieron: Stories of Michigan Agriculture, directed by Stephany Slaughter
Sacred Waters: Anishinaabeg Naagdawenmaanaanig Giigoonhkewin (The First People Taking Care of the Fishery), directed by Finn Ryan and Aaron Peterson
A-Okay, directed by J Fitzpatrick
Livid Mortis, directed by David Mzolo
Bounce, directed by Tristan Cloete
Sidekicks, directed by John Daniel
Sarcum, directed by Ignacio Malagón
The Most Delicious Game, directed by Ethan Schmaltz
How’d You Feel (About Talkin’ to Me) by Bogue, edited by Joseph Frezza
The next Soo Film Festival is September 16-20, 2026.
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