EFF25: Environmental Film Festival '25
Schedule
Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 08:30 am to Wed, 22 Oct, 2025 at 02:00 pm
UTC+11:00Location
Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Victoria | Melbourne, VI
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Environmental Film Festival is back, running 16-23 October and celebrating our 15th year by returning to the cinema where we first started, Palace Kino!Enjoy Australia's premier environmental cinema showcase, with features, shorts, documentaries, cine-art, talks, community activities and more. Join us in exploring how 'Environment Is
Everywhere', through stories of urban living, nature and beyond, with the best eco-cinema from around the world.
Experience 25 films, including 16 premieres, five talks & panels, two community gatherings and one very special festival party.
Traversing Naarm/Melbourne, with screenings at Palace Kino, Trocadero Projects and Wildflower Video Bar, the program spans Indigenous stories of power and activism, local reflections on landscape, breathtaking tales of the city and living environments, and inspiring intergenerational ideas that might just save the planet.
Go beyond the screen and keep the conversation going at our filmmaker panels, community morning tea, beach clean up, fundraiser event for the APHEDA Gaza Emergency Appeal, and our 15th anniversary celebration.
In this time of climate crises, reconsider the world around you through a series of incredible films and events, and experience how Environment Is Everywhere.
Environmental Film Festival 2025 is presented by Environmental Films Australia, in association with Monash University and supported by Dr Bronner's and Hot House Magazine
PROGRAM
Thu 16 Oct
- Opening Night Showcase, with Documerica, Self-Portrait of a Nation on the Brink, River Revelations, ‘Art, Environment & Storytelling’ panel and drinks reception | Palace Kino, CBD
Fri 17 Oct
- METABOLISM & Water Ecologies, a Pay as You Can Gaza Appeal Fundraiser screening, with artist talk by Eugenia Lim | Trocadero Projects, Footscray
Sat 18 Oct
- People, Place & Planet shorts, plus ‘Environmental Filmmaking in Australia today’, a filmmaker panel | Palace Kino, CBD
- These Sacred Hills, with Aboriginal community-action Original Power shorts and a brief ‘Beyond The Screen’ update | Palace Kino, CBD
- The World According To My Dad, supported by Climate Choir Melbourne | Palace Kino, CBD
- EFA's 15th Anniversary Party | Bobbie Peels, North Melbourne
Sun 19 Oct
- Elwood Beach Clean up with '3184 Beach Patrol' | Elwood
Thu 23 Oct
- No More History Without Us, with pre-recorded filmmaker talk | Wildflower Video Bar, Fitzroy North
- EFA After Dark shorts | Wildflower Video Bar, Fitzroy North
Tickets and passes available now at https://events.humanitix.com/environmental-film-festival-2025/
Program available at: https://environmentalfilms.org.au/events/eff-2025
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