Fifes - Festival Internation du Film Ecologique et Social

Cocotte
2026-05-30 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Paris) | 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.

Writing and reading workshop with Virginie Perrot
2026-05-31 14:00 - 15:30 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Writing with the living :
Biodiversity outside, biodiversity inside
Virginie Perrot is a narrative therapist and sophrologist in Nice. She accompanies people through sensitive approaches that combine writing, listening and exploration of the living.
Her workshop takes us on a journey between the living world outside - as portrayed in the festival's films - and the living world within us. Through readings and writing proposals, participants will explore their relationship with living things from a sensitive, intimate and poetic angle. Through collective writing and voluntary shared readings, this moment of exchange will enable the emergence of an "ecology of emotions" that complements the ecology of ecosystems. No writing skills are required: all that counts is listening, curiosity and the desire to explore. A gentle, lively space for dialogue between our stories and those of the world.
Objective: to open up an accessible, creative and non-therapeutic space for writing about living things, and to bring together the stories of biodiversity
Language: French
Audience: ages 12 and up

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A million leaves under the sea
2026-05-31 15:30 - 16:00 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
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 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
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 | Espace Miramar, Rue Pasteur, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 06400, France
Roxane Perrot and Ugo Isoard
Documentary - 57 min - France - 2025
French OV
In the Mediterranean, a group of volunteer freedivers dives without machines or tanks to explore the seabed. But their dives bring them face to face with the reality that waste is everywhere. Every year, 8 million tonnes of plastic end up in our oceans. For a week, Coralie, Jérémy, Karim and Astrid descend beneath the surface to dig up plastic, cans, tires and other human traces accumulated in the coastal creeks. But underwater, something else is at play. Through their repeated gestures and intimate accounts, these freedivers do more than simply clean 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.

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UFEM concert
2026-05-31 19:00 - 20:30 | The Allées de la Liberté, The alleys of freedom, Cannes, 06400
UFEM (Union des Fanfares et Ensembles Musicaux), founded in 1906 under the name UFF, is a national musical confederation that brings together amateur musical groups (batterie-fanfares, harmonies-fanfares and harmonies) across France. Its aim is to promote the music of amateur orchestras and offer training courses for orchestra conductors.
As part of this dynamic, UFEM PACA has created the "Bandes Originales" orchestra, a philharmonic ensemble made up of amateur musicians from all horizons. Their joint project is to present a concert of film music at FIFES. This repertoire of film music, present in amateur harmony orchestras, encourages intergenerational exchanges, enabling young musicians to discover cinematographic works from the last century, while experienced musicians discover more recent cinematographic references.
Through the "Bandes Originales" project, UFEM PACA aims to promote the cultural and social dynamism of volunteer music associations.
