Try something a little different with a special festival edition of our fan-favourite ‘After Dark’ series, a visual cine mixtape of enviro shorts, including fiction, animation, documentaries, screen art, film poems, experimental and more.

An eye-opening manifesto documentary by two Amazonian filmmakers who flip the script, revealing how European colonisers invented false ideas about the Amazon and its people. From stolen artifacts hidden away in museums to the logging trucks stripping the forest, colonial legacies continue to shape the present.

We’re stepping out of the cinema to connect with Country, through a beach clean at Elwood Beach, in partnership with 3184 Beach Patrol.

Join us in turning climate anxiety into climate action, through a relaxed and social litter pick.

We're throwing a party to celebrate our 15th year as a fully volunteer-run environmental arts organisation… and you're invited!

Join us for a night of music, dancing and creativity at Bobbie Peels in North Melbourne. We'll have activation spaces to explore, drinks on arrival, and delicious plant-based canapés to enjoy.

What happens when a scientist and an artist team up to save the planet? 

Artist and filmmaker Marta Kovářová presents a funny, intimate documentary about her father, a physicist who dreams of fixing climate change with one big bold idea. Follow their journey as they try to make their voices heard in a world that doesn’t always want to listen, crashing conferences, playing protest songs, and sharing late-night chats.

Take a deep dive into energy, Indigenous sovereignty and the politics of power, with the Australian premiere of powerful Yakama Nation documentary ‘These Sacred Hills’ (2024), two Aboriginal shorts on solar energy and self-determination from Original Power, and a brief insight from behind-the-scenes.

Presented in partnership with Monash University.

Exploring ideas of urban living, city nature, and how humans and our environment are intertwined, ‘People, Place, Planet shorts’ offers a unique perspective on environmental cinema.

Through cine-poetry, dance, experimental art, documentary, and the journey of a plane tree being meticulously moved just 72 meters in the city of Milan, these films ask us to reconsider what our environment means to us and what we mean to our environment.

Followed by ‘Environmental Filmmaking in Australia today’, a filmmaker panel.

As part of Environmental Film Festival '25, enjoy an experiential gallery screening event exploring our interconnection with water, through the merging of living environments and lived experiences, and natural and constructed ecologies.

With three short films, an artist talk by Eugenia Lim, and plenty of time to chat and mingle, the program invites audiences to rethink the world around you, because Environment is Everywhere.

This pay-as-you-can screening is presented by Trocadero Projects and Environmental Films Australia. All funds raised will be donated to the APHEDA Gaza Emergency Appeal.

An evocative documentary telling the story of the Documerica Project, a long-forgotten epic photo survey of the American environment launched in the early 1970s at the height of environmental awareness.

Preceded by short film ‘River Revelations’ and followed by a panel on the confluence of climate, art, photography and media, chaired by ABC star Maree Lowes.

Join us afterwards in the Kino Foyer for a drinks reception, meet the filmmakers and festival team and help us toast the fest!

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.

Come together with like-minded local community members and enjoy a double feature of Australian activism films.

Enjoy two very special films, a short talk from Rising Tide and supper, with a chance to mingle and get to know each other.

Entry by Pay As You Can Donation.

Yarun EcoFlix is back for ‘25!

Join us for a day of films, talks, eco-mingles and stalls and engage with ideas of protecting our planet and connecting to Country.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Head on down to the historic Astor cinema in St Kilda, for the Australian premiere of ‘NATURE: The Call for a Reconciliation’ and raise funds for the wonderful Port Philip Eco Centre.

Note: This is not an Environmental Films Australia event.

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.

Join Benalla Sustainable Future Group and Swanpool Ladcare at the ‘Swanpool Environmental Film Festival’ and enjoy a day of environment films, talks and catering.

Note: This is not an Environmental Films Australia event.

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.

RMIT’s The Best Films You’ve Never Seen series presents ‘Land, Legacy & Loss: Contemporary Greek Cinema and Environmental Crisis’, a very special screening event exploring contemporary Greek cinema’s engagement with environmental crisis and the tensions between tradition and progress. 

Moreton Climate Action Now, with the support of City of Moreton Bay, is delighted to present a  programme of eco-themed movie shorts  followed by a facilitated discussion and light refreshments

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.