Film/Video

Unorthodocs 2025

A collage of six images: a group portrait, a woman seated, a man holding a child, a woman in court, law enforcement at a desk, and alligators in green-tinted water.

Celebrate the possibilities of creative nonfiction filmmaking with our annual Unorthodocs film festival!

Nov 06, 2025 – Nov 10, 2025

$36 members and adults 55 and over
$45 general public
$16 students

Prices include all fees; fees waived for members and in-person purchases.

Festival passes include admission to:

All Unorthodocs talks and screenings
The Unorthodocs passholders lounge
Plus, one free drink ticket for the reception Nov 8 at 6 PM

Back for its ninth year, this edition of the Wexner Center’s annual documentary film festival is perhaps its most relevant, exciting, and eclectic yet. Unorthodocs 2025 highlights adventurous films that tell more nuanced than usual true crime stories (Predators, Baby Doe), paint portraits of civic courage and protest (Teenage Wasteland, WTO/99), shine ecological spotlights (Seeds, River of Grass), and center Ohio stories and filmmakers (Baby Doe and Brittany Shyne, director of Seeds). But above all that, innovative uses of archival footage is one of the most prominent throughlines in this year’s festival. Past years of Unorthodocs have featured films that went on to win the Best Documentary Academy Award (including last year’s No Other Land). So be the first to discover this year’s most powerful and talked about films and meet the filmmakers behind these daring and singular experiences!

Come explore the boundaries of documentary filmmaking and meet the artists behind today’s most exciting projects. Enjoy all the talks and screenings with a festival pass, plus exclusive access to the passholder lounge.

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Clockwise from top left: Teenage Wasteland, The Gloria of Your Imagination; courtesy of courtesy of the filmmakers. Seeds, courtesy of INDOX. River of Grass, courtesy of the filmmaker. Predators, courtesy of MTV Documentary Films. Baby Doe, courtesy of Visit Films.