Fifes - Festival Internation du Film Ecologique et Social

Children and trees + debate
2026-02-11 19:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Paris) | Cinéma Le Bego Tende, Tende, 06430, France
Natalie Pfister, Switzerland
89 min. - 2024 - Documentary - Solothurner Filmtage
The film plunges us into a school in the middle of the forest, where, over the course of a year, we observe the children who play and learn there. Thirty children, from kindergarten to CE1, spend every day here, whatever the weather - sun, rain or snow. They explore the forest on their own, discover nature's cycles and seek their place in the community. In this environment, they develop their sense of responsibility, courage, imagination and creativity, while interacting spontaneously and empathetically with their peers and other beings in the world.
Price: €5 - followed by discussion

I am the River the River is me + debate
2026-03-11 19:00 - 21:30 | Cinéma Le Bego Tende, Tende, 06430, France
Petr Lom, New Zealand
88 min. - 2024 - Documentary - Ten Thousand Images
For the Māori, the Whanganui is a living being - their ancestor. This belief was institutionalized by New Zealand law in 2017. Granting the river the status of a legal person is both a means of environmental protection and a legal validation of the Māori worldview.
This film is an invitation to experiment with these values: to see our relationship with the world around us - and above all with the natural world - as an intergenerational responsibility of care and custody, rather than simply one of ownership, use or extraction.
Produced over a period of three years, in close collaboration with the Māori of Whanganui, this film is a positive and urgent call to action for the rights of nature.
Price: €5 - followed by discussion

Film and photography workshop with Yanqiu Fei
2026-04-01 17:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Tania Anaya
Animation - 84 min - Brazil - 2025
VO in Portuguese, subtitled in French
The film tells the story of Curt Unckel, a social scientist who lived with indigenous peoples for 40 years. Curt was baptized in 1906 by the Guaranis as Nimuendajú, and has dedicated his life to studying and understanding different cultures. He witnessed the persecution and expulsion of indigenous peoples from their lands.

Mariposas Negras + debate
2026-04-08 19:00 - 21:30 | Cinéma Le Bego Tende, Tende, 06430, France
David Baute, Spanish
83 min. - 2023 - Animation
Tanit, Valeria and Shaila are three women from very different parts of the world, all facing the same problem: climate change. They will lose everything due to the effects of global warming, and will be forced to emigrate in order to survive.
Price: €5 - followed by discussion

A call from the wild + debate
2026-05-13 19:00 - 21:30 | Cinéma Le Bego Tende, Tende, 06430, France
Asgeir Helgestad, Norway
81 min. - 2024 - Documentary - Artic light - Albatross World Sales
Director Asgeir Helgestad documents the state of nature in his native Norway, which he has been photographing for as long as he can remember. From the bees on his farm to the wild reindeer in the high mountains, and the puffins by the ocean, he reveals the beauty of an endangered natural world and highlights the human actions responsible for its decline. This film is a personal story about our connection with the non-human world, the relationship between the small and the large, and a reminder of nature's strength and vulnerability.
Price: €5 - followed by discussion

360° Impact
2026-05-27 09:00 - 13:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Matinée Impact 360°, organisée par Festival International du Film Ecologique et Social (FIFES) et EXIL by EXHIBIT GROUP
L’objectif de cet événement est d’entamer un cycle de rencontres avec les entreprises afin de :

La Matinée Impact 360° a pour ambition de mettre en lumière les entreprises, associations et acteurs engagés des Alpes-Maritimes qui œuvrent chaque jour pour une meilleure qualité de vie, un espace plus sûr et juste.
Cet événement se veut un temps fort de partage, d’inspiration et d’actions concrètes au service de notre territoire.La Matinée Impact 360° poursuit trois missions essentielles :

Présenter et mettre en lien des entreprises, associations et institutions du territoire maralpin, en valorisant les solutions nouvelles, les projets exemplaires et les démarches responsables déjà à l’œuvre localement.
Mettre en lumière par les ciné-conférences les innovations écologiques et sociales, qui répondent aux grands défis environnementaux, sociaux et économiques de notre territoire.
Identifier et développer des actions concrètes en faveur de la transition écologique et sociale, en favorisant le passage de l’idée à l’action grâce à des échanges constructifs et des retours d’expérience.

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Mercantour National Park exhibition
2026-05-27 09:00 - 2026-05-29 18:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Biodiversity at stake
Opening May 27 at 17:00
Free admission
The Parc du Mercantour is offering a double exhibition during FIFES week, focusing on biodiversity issues. The exhibition includes a photographic exhibition and a selection of short films.
Biodiversity at Play exhibition: The exhibition presents species from France's 11 national parks through 13 panels and 28 photographs. It highlights both emblematic and more secretive species, underlining the stakes involved in their conservation.
A focus on the 6 valleys of the Mercantour National Park raises public awareness of the richness of biodiversity and the collective responsibility for its preservation.
The park's short films: Through documentary and animated narratives, these films bear witness to current ecological challenges and highlight the
conservation efforts undertaken by the Mercantour Park.

Vincent Kulesza photo exhibition
2026-05-27 09:00 - 2026-05-29 18:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Opening May 27 at 17:00
Free admission
Vincent is a naturalist, lecturer and photographic artist, a poet avid for the beautiful, the rare and the stolen moment. Nature is the source of his inspiration, but he does not disdain human nature. His motto: "To seek nothing is to find everything!"
Formerly head of the water and climate change department at SCP (Société du Canal de Provence), Vincent ended his career as a forestry engineer, expert naturalist and flora-fauna trainer. Initiator and co-author of the Mémento de la flore protégée des Alpes-Maritimes (1st edition 1989, republished in 2010), he has also worked as a naturalist guide.
He has given over 770 lectures in France, Italy and Poland, where he presents slide shows of his photos with live commentary and no text - "it's all in the image".
Between geology, mineralogy, speleology and paleontology, his slide shows illustrate the beauty of Europe's natural spaces and raise awareness of their preservation.

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Shiftopie exhibition
2026-05-27 09:00 - 2026-05-29 18:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Opening May 27 at 17:00
Free admission
Destination Shiftopie is a low-carbon imagination contest organized since 2022 by The Shifters association, open to everyone, amateur and professional artists alike. Its aim is to help develop new imaginaries for 2050 that are realistic, plausible, funny and well-documented in a low-carbon world.
The Shifters is a non-profit association that brings together volunteers committed to the low-carbon transition of France and Europe. This community is a catalyst for anyone wishing to develop their capacity for action and their knowledge of energy and climate. It works to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on oil, gas and coal. The association takes its name from the English verb to shift. Its members, the Shifteurs and Shifteuses, inform themselves, debate and train to act collectively to shift France, Europe and beyond!

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Youth Project
2026-05-27 18:00 - 18:45 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
À voix haute: When young people speak out on biodiversity
Performance by Lycée Bristol students

Accompanied by their teacher Romain Gimenes, the Lycée Bristol’s second-year students propose a unique stage performance in which the voice of
texts will be accompanied by images and sounds in the background. Everything said and shown on stage will have been created by the students themselves.
Following in the footsteps of Sylvain Tesson’s literary work, students will propose a reading of various texts they have written, crossing genres: narrative, speech, letter, diary, poem. These texts will be structured around the ecological and social theme of biodiversity.
Each speech, whether by a group or an individual, will be accompanied by an image or sound captured by the students in the Cannes area. These visual and sound elements
can illustrate the texts on biodiversity, but also enter into dialogue with the writing, while creating a transition between the different speeches.

Yanuni (preview)
2026-05-27 20:30 - 22:30 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Richard Ladkani Documentary - 112 min - Austria, Brazil, USA, Canada, Germany - 2025 OV in Portuguese, French subtitles
Yanuni is a poignant portrait of courage, resistance and love, right in the heart of the Amazon. Indigenous leader Juma Xipaia has survived six assassination attempts thanks to her relentless struggle to protect her people's lands from exploitation and destruction. At her side is her husband, Hugo Loss, a former Special Forces ranger turned staunch ally. When Juma discovers she's pregnant, the couple's struggle takes on an even greater urgency, transforming a struggle for survival into a fight for the future of their child and their community. Intimate and strikingly cinematic, Yanuni presents a powerful love story forged in resistance, and a vibrant call to protect the Amazon before it's too late.

Nimuendajú
2026-05-28 10:30 - 12:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France

A song for my land
2026-05-28 14:00 - 15:30 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Mauricio Albornoz Iniesta
Documentary - 96 min - Argentina - 2025
VO in Spanish, subtitled in French
Ramiro Lezcano, a music teacher in rural Argentina, is shocked to discover that planes are spraying pesticides near schools, endangering the health of his pupils. In response, he and the children compose songs to denounce the problem, but their initiative meets with stiff resistance from the local community. To make their protest heard, Ramiro decides to organize an open-air concert: an "environmental Woodstock".

Red Forest
2026-05-28 16:00 - 17:30 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Laurie Lassalle
Documentary - 84 min - France - 2025
French version
As the Notre Dame des Landes Z.A.D. undergoes upheaval since the abandonment of the airport project, the forest is transformed into a territory of struggle. The Z.A.D. has become a land of metamorphosis, where the ideals of its inhabitants come face to face with state repression.

Film and photography workshop with Yanqiu Fei
2026-05-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Bringing the story to life on screen:
The role of the director of photography
Yanqiu Fei is a Chinese cinematographer, director and screenwriter currently based in France. Yanqiu Fei's cinematography credits include the feature documentary Last Year of Darkness, winner of the NEXT:WAVE prize at CPH:DOX and the Cannes Doc Award at Visions du Réel.
In this workshop, participants will discover how a cinematographer constructs the vision of a film, from preparation to artistic collaboration, in both fiction and documentary. Drawing on film extracts, the workshop will reflect on the ethics of the gaze and cinematographic practice. Yanqiu will also share his professional experience, followed by a question-and-answer session.
Objective: understand the role of the cinematographer and the development of a film from script to screen
Language: English, translated into French
Audience: all, including young filmmakers

Ojos de Agua, Freeing Chile's waters
2026-05-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Marion Esnault, Marcelo Lara
Documentary - 65 min - Chile, France - 2025
VO in Spanish, subtitled in French
In Chile, drought and water shortages have been hitting hard for the past 15 years. The cause is climate change, but above all the privatization of water sources instituted by Pinochet's constitution and its neoliberal model. As political upheavals shake the Andean country since the social revolt of 2019, Alejo and Ivanna are fighting for access to drinking water and an end to the monopolization of water by intensive agriculture and copper mining.

Bring nature in
2026-05-28 20:30 - 21:30 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Léa Ducré
Documentary – 53 min – France – 2025
VO in French
Pioneering nature rights lawyer Marine Calmet is preparing an unprecedented appeal against the French state following the slaughter of over 800 sharks on Reunion Island since 2014. Alongside oceanographer François Sarano and activist Didier Dérand, she is organizing a mock trial in which law students develop the arguments of the future appeal.
The aim: to have the ocean recognized as a legal entity and push the judge to condemn the slaughter. Everything converges at the United Nations Conference on
l’Océan in France, where Marine is trying to rally the world’s NGOs to make the oceans the new legal subjects of the 21st century.

Heidi and the mountain lynx
2026-05-29 09:30 - 11:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Tobias Schwarz
Animation - 78 min - France - 2025
Heidi lives with her grandfather in a mountain chalet. But everything changes when she finds a wounded baby lynx and decides to nurse it back to health. The young animal desperately needs to be reunited with his family in the mountains! Unbeknownst to her grandfather, Heidi and Peter decide to rescue their new companion. Things get complicated when a greedy businessman, Schnaittinger, wants to build a big sawmill in the mountains, and sets traps for the lynx. Now it's time to protect not only the lynx and his family, but also the village and nature they love so much!

Mercantour beneath our feet
2026-05-29 14:00 - 15:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Loïc Preghenella
Documentary - 60 min - France - 2025
Introduced to the practice of hiking and the discovery of natural environments during their school year, twenty-two 5th graders from the "Les Muriers" Priority Education Network middle school in Cannes La Bocca are about to attempt a first in the Alpes-Maritimes: the Grande Traversée du Mercantour. This 17-day, 200-kilometer adventure is recounted in this one-hour documentary, which combines close-up immersion with the apprentice hikers, meetings with mountain professionals and an exchange with Nepalese ultra-trail legend Dawa Sherpa.

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The sky above Zenica
2026-05-29 16:00 - 17:30 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Nanna Frank Møller, Zlatko Pranjić
Documentary - 92 min - Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2024
VO in Bosnian, French subtitles
Zenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, one of the most polluted cities in the world, has united its citizens in a common struggle for a viable future. But money, power and politics are proving as formidable an adversary as the pollution that threatens their lives.

Film and acting workshop with Théo Fernandez
2026-05-29 17:00 - 19:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Acting masterclass
Théo Fernandez began his acting career in 2009 in the horror film Le Village des ombres (2011). He then came to public attention in the comedy Les Tuches (2011) as the nerdy son, Donald. Since then, Théo Fernandez has taken on a series of TV roles. At the same time, he has set up an acting school and an artistic agency open to all.
His workshop will enable participants to understand what defines good acting, and to experiment with acting in front of the camera by mobilizing their own inner resources. Théo will present his career path, before giving a theoretical definition of the role of actor-ice. The workshop will then offer an opportunity for participants to try their hand at acting through simple exercises, followed by live coaching by the speaker.
Objective: understand what defines good acting and experience acting on camera
Language: French
Audience: general public

Talk by Yann Urbon - Hypnosis
2026-05-29 18:00 - 18:15 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Hypnosis session before the screening of "Au bout des mots" (At the end of words)
"Sublimating reality to drive and accompany individual and collective transformation" - if there were only one to choose from, this would be his main mission. Yann Urbon is a committed change agent with a passion for exploring the mind. Yann is at the origin of several initiatives, and divides his time between hypnosis as a dual practitioner and teacher, coaching high-impact organizations thanks to his skills as a facilitator of cooperative dynamics, and integrative health as a student of physiotherapy.
Between surprises, wonder and curiosity, get ready to embark on a hypnotic, rejuvenating journey before fully enjoying the screening of the film Au bout des mots (Lost for Words). Yann Urbon will guide you through this innovative immersive experience, a world first! Cameras open our minds to the world, giving us privileged access to reality beyond ourselves. The viewer experiences a conscious broadening of perceptions, as if the screen brought back to the brain what an extension of our sight had just captured elsewhere. What if we could direct the cameras towards our inner worlds? In this intervention, you'll forget your seat and walk through the camera to feel yourself on the other side.
Objective: get in touch with the depth of the film Au bout des mots and become all the more sensitive to its messages
Language: French
Public: all audiences

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At the end of words
2026-05-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Hannah Papaceck Harper
Documentary - 93 min - France, United Kingdom - 2025
VO in English, subtitled in French
What does connecting with nature mean to you? At the end of words ("Lost for Words") takes us across the UK, describing the landscapes and communities that live there. The story begins in 2007 with the disappearance of nature-related words from the Oxford Junior dictionary. These missing words, such as "acorn", "otter", "hyacinth" and "dandelion", serve as a guide throughout the film. The film takes us on an adventure through the seasons, from the remotest corners of the country to museum archives and scientific laboratories. Children, elders, scientists, artists and activists speak out, sharing their knowledge and emotional connection with nature. Their voices prompt us to reflect on our own relationship with the natural world around us. This film explores the fundamental issues of our common future: imagining the future of our planet and rethinking it collectively.

Yintah
2026-05-29 20:30 - 22:00 | 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 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
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.

Design and environment workshop with Asgeir Helgestad
2026-05-30 11:00 - 12:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Environmental cinema:
Touching hearts and minds
Asgeir Helgestad is an award-winning Norwegian director, cinematographer, writer and producer. He has over thirty years' experience in documentary and photography. His work reflects a deep sensitivity and empathy for nature. His recent documentary Queen Without Land (2018) received over thirty international awards. Her photography has also won awards, including Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Participants in his workshop will explore how visual storytelling can mobilize both the emotions and the mind in the face of environmental and climate issues. Using film excerpts and time for analysis, the workshop aims to deepen understanding of how nature stories can inspire care, responsibility and action. Asgeir will share his professional experience in Norway and the Arctic, followed by time for questions and answers.
Objective: deepen understanding of nature storytelling and recognize how environmental storytelling engages audiences
Language: English, translated into French
Audience: people interested in environmental storytelling, but not necessarily professionals

Cocotte
2026-05-30 14:00 - 15:30 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
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.

Children's workshop
2026-05-30 17:00 - 18:30 | The Allées de la Liberté, The alleys of freedom, Cannes, 06400
Les petits artistes du vivant
On the Allées de la Liberté, children will be free to draw with chalk. Models of flora and fauna will be proposed, and they'll become the creators of a collective, ephemeral work of art on the beauty of biodiversity.
And grown-ups are welcome to join in!

Storytelling show with Catherine Bouin
2026-05-30 18:00 - 18:45 | The Allées de la Liberté, The alleys of freedom, Cannes, 06400
Mysteries of forest life
Storytelling crossed Catherine's path over thirty years ago: "I was touched by her ability to convey the essential, to tell the mystery that lies deep within us and that all humanity shares. Storytelling simply allows us, with everyday words, in a direct and unpretentious relationship, to go straight to the heart, to awaken and fill us with wonder. It's an art form in its own right, as old as time itself, and as relevant today as it ever was." Most of her tales are adaptations of traditional repertoires, the fruit of collection or anthology. Her repertoire is linked to the earth, which nourishes us and offers us its beauty and generosity.
Catherine has developed her own methodology that enables her to be understood by everyone, whatever their level of French, in order to give pleasure with the storytelling word and show its universality. During her show, Catherine will share seven tales on the theme of the forest, seen as a community where mutual aid and solidarity reign in perfect harmony in the service of life.

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Here begins the sea
2026-05-31 14:00 - 15:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
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.
