They spend their days exploring, foraging, and performing rituals where they drum with branches in hopes of getting a response from other Sasquatch.

The female activates a boombox; when "Love to Hate You" plays, she and the child are emotionally overcome and eventually wreck the site in a fit of rage.

[5] To help the cast prepare for their roles, Eisenberg brought in movement coach and mime coach Lorin Eric Salm, whom Eisenberg had trained with to play French mime artist Marcel Marceau in the feature film Resistance.

Drawing inspiration both from primates and from Bigfoot lore, he helped them find a balance between human and ape-like movement.

The work included creating a walk, learning animal behavior, developing non-verbal emotional expression, and exploring how a Sasquatch might interact with unfamiliar objects.

The movement sessions also focused on nuances of daily Sasquatch life and their manner of eating, and it was during this training period when their vocalizations and forms of communication were chosen.

[5] It also screened at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival on February 19, 2024, as part of the Berlinale Special section,[11][12] and South by Southwest on March 11, 2024.

[17] In his review, investigator Benjamin Radford describes how the movie incorporates “some common Bigfoot tropes and (alleged) evidence, including the reported behavior of beating on trees and howling to communicate.

The website's consensus reads: "For audiences attuned to the Zellners' utterly unique wavelength, Sasquatch Sunset offers a moving—if often inscrutable—look at our relationship with the natural world.

"[18] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.