Fifes - Festival Internation du Film Ecologique et Social

Yintah
2026-05-29 20:30 - 22:00 (Europe/Paris) | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano
Documentary – 110 min – Canada – 2024
VO in English, subtitled in French
Yintah, meaning “land”, is a feature film documenting the Wet’suwet’en First Nation’s fight for sovereignty. Shot over more than a decade, the film follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies its ancestral lands to protect them from several of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies.

Walking in the dark
2026-05-30 10:30 - 12:00
Kinshuk Surjan
Documentary – 108 min – Belgium, Netherlands, India – 2024
VO in Hindi, subtitled in French
Determined to provide a better life for herself and her children after the suicide of her farmer husband, Sanjivani struggles against the traditional abandonment of widows in her culture, until she joins a discussion group with other widows of farmers who have died by suicide. With the support of her community, shared stories of resilience and unexpected solidarity, Sanjivani cautiously charts her path towards the future.

Cocotte
2026-05-30 14:00 - 15:30
Gyorgy Palfi
Fiction – 96 min – Germany, Hungary, Greece – 2025
VO in Greek, subtitled in French
With great power comes great responsibility – but what if the heroine were a chicken? Escaped from a factory farm, she finds refuge in the courtyard of a ruined restaurant. There, she discovers love, defies the law of the beak and fights to protect her eggs. Her quest, both tender and ironic, resonates with the silent struggles and petty arrangements of human life.

Here begins the sea
2026-05-31 14:00 - 15:00
Mattia Trabbuchi
Documentary – 42 min – France – 2025
VO in French
At the water’s edge, where the sea meets the shore, lie ecosystems as fragile as they are essential. Cystoseires forests, Posidonia meadows, rocky bottoms… The shallow coastal waters are home to an abundance of biodiversity and provide invaluable services to our coastline. Yet their accessibility makes them particularly vulnerable to human pressures.
With Ici commence la mer, FNE Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur invites you to plunge into this close, little-known universe, to meet the people who, from the Côte Bleue to Saint-Honorat via Saint-Mandrier, are working to preserve this natural heritage.

A million leaves under the sea
2026-05-31 15:30 - 16:00
Ioana Stoicescu and NaturDive
Documentary – 21 min – France – 2025
VO in French
Off the coast of Cannes, a fragile underwater garden struggles to survive. Threatened by intense nautical activity, the Posidonia meadows are being torn up and doomed to disappear. To preserve them, a team of divers spends long hours beneath the surface, replanting fragments of Posidonia oceanica, whose survival is hanging by a thread, giving them a second chance. This documentary retraces not only this ecological restoration mission, but also the human adventure it generates: a deep commitment, a shared resilience, and a strong bond forged beneath the surface. A story of dedication, fragility… and rebirth, leaf by leaf.

Nereide
2026-05-31 17:00 - 17:15
Amal Alnabwany
Artistic short – 8 min – France – 2025
VO in French
In the Mediterranean Sea, Amal, dancer and snorkeler, evolves in an aquatic universe where the poetry of movement meets the beauty of the marine world. But this harmony is shattered when she encounters an invasion of plastic waste. Through her body and her dance, the film warns of the ravages inflicted on seas and oceans.

“With NereideI want to raise awareness of what we are doing to nature, and more specifically to the ocean where we dump our waste. My project is a call to action to protect the seabed and endangered species. The Mediterranean is listed as the most polluted sea in the world, with very high concentrations of micro-plastics, to the detriment of marine biodiversity. In many respects, the Mediterranean has become a great graveyard. What will be left of the rich underwater flora and fauna for future generations?”

Oxygen
2026-05-31 17:10 - 18:10
Roxane Perrot and Ugo Isoard
Documentary – 57 min – France – 2025
French OV
In the Mediterranean, a group of volunteer freedivers dive without machines or tanks to explore the seabed. But their immersions confront them with a reality: waste is everywhere. Every year, 8 million tonnes of plastic end up in our oceans. Over the course of a week, Coralie, Jérémy, Karim and Astrid descend beneath the surface to dig up plastics, cans, tires and other human traces that have accumulated in coastal creeks. But underwater, something else is at play. Through their repeated gestures and intimate accounts, these freedivers do more than just clean up the sea. They learn to inhabit it, to listen to it, to connect with it. For, in the face of relentless pollution, the question remains: how can we protect what we can’t see? Their commitment reveals the need to reconnect with the sea.
