Petr Lom, New Zealand 88 min. - 2024 - Documentary - Ten Thousand Images The Whanganui River, in Aotearoa/New Zealand, is the first river in the world to be recognized as a legal person, a living, indivisible being. Ned Tapa, the river's Māori guardian, invites an Australian First Nations elder and his daughter, activists committed […]
Isa Willinger, Germany 103 min. - 2023 - Documentary - Rise And Shine World Sales Plastics are everywhere. Not only do they invade our rivers and oceans, they also permeate the air, soil and even our bodies. As the crisis deepens and recycling remains largely ineffective, the plastics industry continues to increase production. Does […]
Kasàlà discovery and writing workshop - booking required Co-hosted by Maji Da Abdi, director and member of the FIFES International Jury, and Jean Ngo Semzara KABUTA, a specialist in African linguistics who writes and teaches Kasàlà. Kasàlà is a form of poetry from sub-Saharan Africa that expresses diverse emotions such as joy, sadness, gratitude and […]
Valérie Pouyanne, Canada 93 min. - 2024 - The Mad Eye Given what we know about animal intelligence and sensitivity, isn't it time we reconsidered our behaviour towards pets and animals? wild? By visiting three animal shelters and hearing their stories, we discover that animals are not so different from us: intelligent, sensitive, supportive, stubborn, […]
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 […]
Jean-Philippe Marquis, Canada 80 min. - 2023 - Documentary - Cinema Politica A red cedar can live for over a thousand years, supporting multiple ecosystems and human cultures. But a voracious chainsaw can cut down that same tree in just a few hours. In the economics of commercial logging, the tree only acquires value once […]
Impact 360° Morning, organized by Festival International du Film Ecologique et Social (FIFES) and EXIL by EXHIBIT GROUP The aim of this event is to initiate a cycle of meetings with companies in order to : Highlighting ecological and social innovations in the Maralpin region Identify and develop concrete actions in favor of sustainable transition […]
Based on exchanges between people of different generations, intergenerational links are beneficial for both the elderly and the young. Between shared solidarity and mutual enrichment, this type of relationship has been encouraged around the beautiful cinematographic project of creating short films: script writing, image capture and editing, ending with a screening in a cinema on […]
Celyne Roy is an underwater photographer based in the PACA region of France, who has been passionate about the sea since childhood. An amateur photographer since the age of 13, she specialized in aquatic photography after discovering freediving in Indonesia in 2019. This practice became the link between her passions for the sea and photography, […]
Virpi Suutari, Finnish 93 min. - 2023 - Documentary - Euphoria Film The setting for this modern fable is the Finnish forest, one of the largest and oldest coniferous areas in Europe. Here, a group of young people live in symbiosis and harmony with nature. However, their decision to settle in the forest was not […]
In a middle school at the foot of Mont Blanc, SEGPA students have no interest in anything. To motivate them and make them dream, Alain, their teacher, organizes a surprising and perilous outing into the bowels of a glacier. The teenagers discover a breathtakingly beautiful world of ice. But they realize that with global warming, if nothing is done, this glacier like many others could disappear. Against everyone's advice, but led by their teacher, they throw themselves heart and soul into a crazy project: to protect the glacier and stop it from melting... From now on, nothing can stop them, because there's no Planet B!
