Celebrated 10 years of
Cinematic Excellence
in Arkansas
June 10 – 16, 2024
2024 BENTONVILLE FILM FESTIVAL
The 2024 Bentonville Film Festival kicked off with premiere screenings starting, Tuesday, June 11th through Sunday, June 16 with the Opening Night Party: Cinematic Cheers: A Toast to 10 Years, on Monday June 10th.
We prioritized a festive and formative in-person Festival in Bentonville, Arkansas and all the way through the closing weekend, Sunday, June 16. With the addition of special programming we hope you enjoyed more days of BFF 2024. We welcomed back Festival alumni from across our decade — along with the next generation of artists — who joined us in Bentonville at our special events, enjoyed the 2024 films and connected and reunited with one another. Our local community and families enjoyed a variety of free outdoor films in the Geena Davis Outdoor theater located in the Bentonville Film Festival Village at the Momentary. This year, our addition of the Bentonville Film Festival Toy Corner presented by Walmart was a fantastic experience for all. We even had Barbie’s Corvette on display sponsored by Nunnally Chevrolet along with a variety of complimentary Coca Cola and Mars products throughout the Village.
Program and Venues
The 2024 Bentonville Film Festival lineup included 75+ feature films and 50+ shorts.
The 2024 venues became fast favorites for new BFF’s. In-person screenings took place in Momentary’s Fermentation Hall, Thaden School Performing Arts Center and Bentonville’s Skylight Theater.
Our Festival Awards were be presented on the evening of Saturday, June 15. We loved the intimacy that came with holding this artist celebration at The Rode House, and we were thrilled to be back again this year.
Stay tuned for our 2025 Festival date announcement COMING SOON!
ABOUT BENTONVILLE
Dubbed “a new capital of cool” by the Wall Street Journal in 2023, Bentonville, Arkansas, is everything you want and nothing you’d expect. Mouthwatering local cuisine, mountain biking dreams, and a vibrant cultural scene give you big-city vibes amid the gorgeous backdrop of the Ozarks. Explore street art, savor globally-inspired flavors by joining our foodie revolution, or spend your days pumping adrenaline on hiking and biking trails. It’s the coolest place you’ve never been, so go ahead and beat the rush. You have to see it.
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A showcase for films that focus on diversity. But what’s really on display is opportunity, and that’s something Geena Davis knows all about”
TRACY SMITH (CBS SUNDAY MORNING, 2022)
Each year the Bentonville Film Festival amplifies female non-binary LGBTQIA+, BIPOC and people with disabilities’ voices in entertainment”
HALEY BOSSELMAN (VARIETY, 2022)
