Marfa Film Festival

The program features works from promising newcomers and established filmmakers, as well as beloved or forgotten classics, including outdoor evening screenings in the arid landscape surrounding Marfa.

The Festival does not designate winners, celebrating innovation and excellence in film through passionate curation and fostering a relaxed social space where up-and-coming filmmakers mix with adventurous cinephiles, industry veterans, and living legends in a captivatingly scenic, culturally rich environment.

Other movies shown that year included Night of the Hunter, True Stories, The Innocents, Man On Wire, and two music videos directed by Heath Ledger.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes played their first-ever show at the 2008 festival, with an opening performance by artist Mia Doi Todd and Antony Langdon's band Victoria.

The festival opened with an outdoor screening of Texas Filmmakers (David Lowery) [Ain't Them Body Saints 9film)\Aint Them Body Saints) 2014 festival highlights included a live score performance by CocoRosie to Sergei Peranajov's 1969 masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates, advance screenings of Richard Linklater's Boyhood and Michel Gondry's Mood Indigo, and an interactive experimental arcade designed especially for MFF around the “Space Cowboy” mythos.

In 2016 Joey Soloway's much anticipated Amazon series I Love Dick which was shot in Marfa, Tx Starring Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn and festival creator Robin Lambaria (who is featured in her iconic red jumpsuit in the first scene).