V INTERNATIONAL ECOPERFORMANCE FILM FESTIVAL
in-person & online
At the intersection of cinema, performing arts, and ecology, the IEFF promotes short films of interdisciplinary artists that investigate the tensions between environment, body, ancestry, and memory in natural, urban, and virtual landscapes and strive to overcome anthropocentric paradigms of performance and cinematography.
Inaugurated in 2021, the festival achieved global resonance adopting both an in-person and online format and exhibiting around 210 short films created by established and emerging artists from 6 continents and more than 50 countries.
In 2024, in cooperation with cultural institutions and universities, the IEFF expanded its scope by diversifying its film categories - Ecopoet[h]ics, Eco-Drama, Eco-Animation, and Eco-Documentary - and by promoting nomadic screening editions beyond Brazil, in Argentina, Australia, the US, Romania, and Germany.
The V International Ecoperformance Film Festival, will take place in June 2025, in Brazil (São Paulo, Goiânia, Brasília), Argentina (Córdoba and Pinamar), and Romania. In addition, the festival program will be broadcast on the IEFF YouTube channel.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
Films dealing with the relationships between the environment, body, ancestry, and memory.
Production period: 2020 > 2025
Further information about the participation terms and conditions can be found in filmfreeway.com/InternationalEcoperformanceFilmFestival
IEFF TEAM
Artistic director: Maura Baiocchi
Production director: Wolfgang Pannek
Executive director: Mônica Bernardes
Co-Organizers:
Alina Tofan (PlasticPlastic Performing Arts Collective, Bucharest)
Rodrigo Marco del Pont, Daniel Deybe (Montfleuri sur Mer, Pinamar)
Victoria Fraticelli (Córdoba, Argentina)
Maria Fernanda Miranda, Alexandre Nunes (Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil)
Giselle Rodrigues (University of Brasília, DF, Brazil)
The IEFF is a Taanteatro Project
ECOPERFORMANCE
In the field of the performing and audiovisual arts, ecoperformance is a concept coined in 2009 by the Brazilian choreographer Maura Baiocchi and elaborated by the German director Wolfgang Pannek. Ecoperformance understands environment and body as inseparable dimensions of performative creation. In ecoperformances, the environment constitutes a living play of interactive presences and forces, among which the human body. Therefore, ecoperformances and ecoperformative films strive for non-anthropocentric forms of dramaturgy and cinematography.
+ information: About Ecoperformance