The Bainbridge Island Film Festival is an annual 4-day celebration of contemporary films and filmmakers across multiple venues on Bainbridge Island. A community-focused, filmmaker-friendly festival, BIFF is about bringing together the robust audiences of the region in support of diverse stories and artists.

With screenings and events at the historic Lynwood Theatre, Bainbridge Cinemas, and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, the 2023 edition of BIFF included scripted features, documentaries, animation, short films, panels, family programs, and more.

In addition to screening the latest in independent cinema from around the country and beyond, BIFF also showcases feature films and shorts from local filmmakers, and films shot on and around Bainbridge Island, as well as year-round programming of films and events.

The Bainbridge Island Film Festival is fiscally sponsored by Arts & Humanities Bainbridge.

We acknowledge that the land on which we gather is within the aboriginal territory of the suq̀ʷabš “People of Clear Salt Water” (Suquamish People). Expert fisherman, canoe builders and basket weavers, the suq̀ʷabš live in harmony with the lands and waterways along Washington’s Central Salish Sea as they have for thousands of years. Here, the suq̀ʷabš live and protect the land and waters of their ancestors for future generations as promised by the Point Elliot Treaty of 1855.