Upcoming events.


We love environmental cinema and want to support everyone in finding the screening for them! On this page, we list out our events, as well as events by our partners and other organisations and groups. If you are running your own environmental screening or arts event and would like us to list it, contact us at hello[@]environmentalfilms.org.au.

Save the Date! EFA turns 15!
Oct
16
to Oct 18

Save the Date! EFA turns 15!

This year is our 15th birthday!

We have been running as a volunteer-led organisation since we launched as Environmental Film Festival Melbourne in 2010. We missed out on celebrating our tenth birthday in 2020, so we couldn’t let this milestone pass us by!

Mark your calendars for a weekend of cinema, talks, celebrations and more as we toast all the amazing people (and films!) who made EFFM, EFFA and now EFA happen.

Details to be announced soon!

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Movies on the Mount - The Giants
Aug
7

Movies on the Mount - The Giants

  • Mount Macedon & District Horticultural Society (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Macedon and Mt Macedon Landcare bring you ‘Movies on the Mount’, a series of free bi-monthly environmental film screenings, in collaboration with Environmental Films Australia.

Join for a social community evening, with supper, wine and a thought provoking movie.

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EFA After Dark | Wildflower Video Screening - July
Jul
24

EFA After Dark | Wildflower Video Screening - July

Environmental Films Australia is teaming up with Wildflower Video Bar to run a series of film events this winter.

Try something a little different with a visual cine mixtape of enviro shorts, including fiction, animation, documentaries, screen art, film poems, experimental and more. The After Dark program includes an eclectic series of exciting, playful, and dynamic shorts, exploring ideas of environment and what it means to live in a more-than-human world. Enjoy a night of weird, wonderful and boundary-pushing cinema.

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EFA presents: Twig (2024) | Wildflower Video Screening - July
Jul
24

EFA presents: Twig (2024) | Wildflower Video Screening - July

Environmental Films Australia is teaming up with Wildflower Video Bar to run a series of film events this winter.

A casual film club and community catch up, these screenings offer a unique opportunity to watch a wide variety of environmental cinema, rarely seen anywhere else, explore our place in the wider world, and connect with new friends.

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White Rock: Ocean Research Climate Action (ORCA) Launch
Jul
17

White Rock: Ocean Research Climate Action (ORCA) Launch

Join RMIT University and Ocean Research Climate Action (ORCA) for the launch of Ocean Research Climate Action (ORCA)—a bold new network reimagining our relationship with the ocean to drive climate action. ORCA unites leaders in art, design, culture, geography, education, and urban research to ignite creative research and civic action for regenerative futures.

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[Past] EFA After Dark | Wildflower Video Screening - June
Jun
26

[Past] EFA After Dark | Wildflower Video Screening - June

Environmental Films Australia is teaming up with Wildflower Video Bar to run a series of film events this winter.

Try something a little different with a visual cine mixtape of enviro shorts, including fiction, animation, documentaries, screen art, film poems, experimental and more. The After Dark program includes an eclectic series of exciting, playful, and dynamic shorts, exploring ideas of environment and what it means to live in a more-than-human world. Enjoy a night of weird, wonderful and boundary-pushing cinema.

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[Past] EFA presents: Stepping Softly on the Earth (2022) | Wildflower Video
Jun
26

[Past] EFA presents: Stepping Softly on the Earth (2022) | Wildflower Video

Environmental Films Australia is teaming up with Wildflower Video Bar to run a series of film events this winter.

A casual film club and community catch up, these screenings offer a unique opportunity to watch a wide variety of environmental cinema, rarely seen anywhere else, explore our place in the wider world, and connect with new friends.

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[Past] Do Migrants Care? Challenging Climate Myths, film & panel
Jun
17

[Past] Do Migrants Care? Challenging Climate Myths, film & panel

Sutherland Shire Council and Advance Diversity Services are excited to present the screening of the Voices for Power documentary, Do Migrants Care? Challenging Climate Myths.

This event, run as part of Refugee Week, includes a film screening, panel, light refreshments & conversation, plus free seedlings to take home

Note: This is not an Environmental Films Australia event.

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[Past] As we looked back, we saw the future
May
9

[Past] As we looked back, we saw the future

Re-vision Ethical Futures Moving Image Network presents a program of two short works that skilfully utilise archival footage, documents, and photographic materials to inspire reflection on enduring continuities - the persistence of environmentally harmful policies, colonial extraction-based attitudes, and the complex ways archival materials represent long-term ecological and social phenomena - going beyond merely substantiating historical events to actively co-constitute our understanding of the present.

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[Past] Off Grid Pop Up Cinema: Yana Djamaga Ganji / Walk Good Fire
Apr
12

[Past] Off Grid Pop Up Cinema: Yana Djamaga Ganji / Walk Good Fire

In late 2019, Australia’s South Coast burned red, hot, and black. When the ash settled, First Nations voices were the first to emerge from the deafening silence. Yana Djamaga Ganji / Walk Good Fire is an Indigenous-led film that follows the Walbunja Rangers back out onto Yuin Country, as they work with cultural fire to heal both the coast and their people.

Walking alongside Elders and youngsters across luxury resorts to crown lands, this documentary follows the resurgence of cultural burning in Australia’s Southeast, addressing the ongoing mismanagement of Country and the misconceptions around cultural burning as an isolated practice.

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[Past] Off Grid Pop Up Cinema: Future Shorts package
Apr
12

[Past] Off Grid Pop Up Cinema: Future Shorts package

As tomorrow rushes on at an unstoppable speed, Environmental Films Australia presents an exploration of speculative futures with a curated selection of sci fi and action short films.

Delve into how tomorrow’s stories respond to today’s emergencies with films showcasing future visions from the very near to very far future.

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[Past] Off Grid Pop Up Cinema: Jacob, Mimmi & The Talking Dogs (2019)
Apr
12

[Past] Off Grid Pop Up Cinema: Jacob, Mimmi & The Talking Dogs (2019)

A family film screening by Environmental Films Australia at the Star Theatre, as part of the Off Grid Pop Up Cinema.

When the local park is threatened to be destroyed and replaced with skyscrapers by greedy city businessmen, young Mimmi is let down as the adults around her (including her retired-pirate father) refuse to stand in the way of progress to help her protect her favourite tree. 

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[Past] Off Grid Pop Up Cinema: The Giants (2024)
Apr
11

[Past] Off Grid Pop Up Cinema: The Giants (2024)

Kick start your Off Grid experience with the Bob Brown feature documentary The Giants (2023).

A poetic, cinematic portrait of environmentalist Bob Brown and the Forest, the film draws on emerging science about trees and Brown's experiences of activism to inspire a new chapter in our relationship with trees.

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[Past] Free Screening: Yana Djamaga Ganji / Walk Good Fire (2024)
Apr
4

[Past] Free Screening: Yana Djamaga Ganji / Walk Good Fire (2024)

Trocadero Projects and Environmental Films Australia have teamed up to bring an environmental cinema experience to Footscray! 

Grab a beanbag and a gelato for the Victorian premiere of Yana Djamaga Ganji / Walk Good Fire by Clancy Walker and Adam Nye, along with local short Outpicker, introduced by filmmaker Le Luo.

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[Past] Living Living Room, Environmental Films Australia at Trocadero Projects
Feb
27
to Mar 30

[Past] Living Living Room, Environmental Films Australia at Trocadero Projects

  • Trocadero Projects, Footscray | VIC (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

For five weeks across February and March, enjoy a selection of short films from Australia, New Zealand and the United States that explore humanity’s connection to country and impact on the planet, in our Living Living Room. 

Immersive, ethereal and irreverent, the program explores impacts of colonialism, the awe of nature and Indigenous knowledge.

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