Heidi and the mountain lynx
2026-05-29 09:30 - 11:00 (Europe/Paris) | 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
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.

The sky above Zenica
2026-05-29 16:00 - 17:30
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.

At the end of words
2026-05-29 18:00 - 20:00
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
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.
