5th INTERNATIONAL ECOPERFORMANCE FILM FESTIVAL
BRAZIL ARGENTINA ROMANIA
IN-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
June 06 to July 6, 2025
July 4 TO 6, 2025
Official Selection Catalogue 2025 - download links:
Welcome to the
5th International Ecoperformance Film Festival - IEFF
The IEFF is an artistic response to the ecopolitical challenges of the XXI century. At the intersection of cinema, performing arts, and ecology, the festival 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.
For the fifth festival edition, our curators selected 44 short films from 23 countries categorized as as Ecopoet[h]ics, Ecodramas, Ecoanimations, and Ecodocumentaries and to be exhibited from June 6 to July 6, 2025 in cooperation with cultural institutions and universities in Argentina, Brazil, and Romania. In addition, the festival’s online edition will be broadcast from July 4 to 6 on the IEFF’s YouTube channel.
“On the occasion of its fifth anniversary, the International Ecoperformance Film Festival is consolidating itself as a reference for ecopoet[h]ic cinema that addresses the threats to the conditions of existence on planet Earth, while celebrating the beauty and complexity of life. The film selection showcases short films that engage with traditional performing and visual arts (dance, theater, singing, music, sculpture) and explore the creative potential of new digital tools. The program conveys unique artistic perspectives, with significant participation from Afro-diasporic, Indigenous, feminist, and LGBTQ+ artists who explore the tensions between nature and civilization, inviting the audience on a transcultural cinematic journey that takes you from the Amazon to the Andes and from the Arctic to Aotearoa (New Zealand).” The IEFF Team
V IEFF Online Edition
From July 4 - 11, 2025, the Online Edition of the V International Ecoperformance Film Festival exhibits the complete festival program *
The 9 Screening Sessions and 2 Award Sessions will be available on the IEEF YouTube Channel
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JULY 04
10 am / GMT-3
SESSION 1 - 96 min
I mbliana (This Year) - Dir: Zoë Uí Fhaoláin Green, Michael Kelly; Ireland; 22’; 2024
Pegadas (Footprints) - Dir: Manu Sobral; Brazil; 13’; 2023
Of Wind and Water - Dir: Alexandra Lexton; USA; 6’; 2024
رامسو (Vas mar) - Dir: Nima Tabandeh; Iran; 19’; 2024
Madame Margaux - Dir: Nikki Tan; Singapore; 17’; 2024
En cemento (Through Concrete) - Dir: Maya Ivona; US, Romania; 4’; 2025
The Experiment - Dir. Maxim Akbarov; Cazaquistão; 15’; 2024
SESSION 2 - 36 min
Pulso (Pulse) - Dir: Bárbara Serafim; Brazil; 15’; 2024
(Re)acquaint the Fire - Dir: Véronique Doucet; Canada; 6’; 2023
O sonho de Cadinho (Cadinho’s Dream) - Dir: Martin Escriche; Brazil; 15’; 2024
SESSION 3 - 53 min
Das cinzas (From the Ashes) - Dir: Ian Iordanu; Brazil; 22’; 2024
Beton Sakti (Magic Concrete) - Dir: Alfred Banze, Agus Nur Amal; Germany, Indonesia; 9’; 2025
Bird Drone - Dir: Radheya Jang Jegatheva; Australia, 9’; 2023
Ode to Invisible - Dir: Linn Obrestad; Norway; 5’; 2025
The Way I Missed the End - Dir: Eszter Marsalko, Wils Wilson; Scotland, United Kingdom; 6’; 2024
SESSION 4 - 38 min
Invertebrado (Invertebrate) - Dir: Fernando Monegalha, João Dias, Rodrigo Barros Gewehr; Brazil; 15’; 2024
Settling, Unsettling - Dir: Janine Randerson, Becca Wood, Julieanna Preston; New Zealand; 9’; 2025
TurmOil - Dir: Daragh O’Shea; Ireland; 6’; 2024
Sève (Sap) - Dir: Carine Iriarte; France; 9’; 2023
SESSION 5 - 46 min
Fuga (Escape) - Dir: Viníciux da Silva, Raphael Medeiros; Brazil; 15’; 2025
A Spectre Is Haunting the City - Dir: Karl Kaisel; Estonia; 6’; 2024
Greenwash - Dir: Andrés Bronnimann; Costa Rica; 3’; 2024
Thaalavattam (Signature of Time) - Dir: Ashwin Koushan; India; 5’; 2023
Até o caroço (Until the Pit) - Dir: Thomas Canton; Brazil; 15’; 2024
Lessons from Our Grandfather - Dir: Ashley Qilavaq-Savard, Jennifer Kilabuk; Canada; 4’; 2025
SESSION 6 - 48 min
Latitude Fénix (Angular Phoenix) - Dir: Welket Bungué; Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe, Guinea-Bissau; 15’; 2022
The Refrain - Dir: DeMar Walker; USA; 4’; 2024
Corpo desencanto (Disenchanted Body) - Dir: Cristhian Cantarino; Brazil; 15’; 2024
Catching Fire - Dir: Colin Stilwell; USA; 13’; 2025
SESSION 7 - 49 min
Ceux qui répondent à l'écho (Those Who Respond to the Echo) - Dir: Alexis Cousineau, Charlotte Gagnon; Canada; 19’; 2024
O fazedor de mirantes (The Mirant Maker) - Dir: Betânia Victor, Lucas Franzoni; Brazil; 19’; 2024
Terra - Dir: Cobie Orger; Australia; 10’; 2025
SESSION 8 - 45 min
Martha - Dir: Marcel Barelli; Switzerland; 6’; 2024
Herança do amanhã (Legacy of Tomorrow) - Dir: Vanessa de Oliveira Corrêa; Brazil; 14; 2024
The Inga Tree Model - Dir: Adam Wakeling; Honduras; 10’; 2024
We Are All Dogs - Dir: Aminreza Alimohammadi; Iran; 14’; 2023
SESSION 9 - 44 min
Movimentos migratórios (Migratory Movements) - Dir: Rogério Cathalá; Brazil; 14’; 2024
Old World - Dir: Roland Cartagena; Philippines; 8’; 2024
Laguna Negra (Black Lagoon) - Dir: Matt Maynard; Chile; 14’; 2024
Le gouffre de l’amaurose (The Amaurose Chasm) - Dir: Collectif B.L.U.S.H.; Canada; 6’; 2024
Haikai isolado - corte de diretor (Isolated Haikai - Director's Cut) - Dir: Paulo Afonso M Delfini, Brazil; 10’, 2023
JULY 06
10 am / GMT-3
1. Environmental Dance Prize (EDP)
EDP 2024:
Traditional Australian Wedding Dance - Dir. Keiran James; Australia; 6'; 2025
Lumbung Sumlawung - Dir. Bima Putra; Indonesia; 15'; 2025
EDP 2025 - Award Session
2. IEFF Ecoperformance Awards
Categories: Ecodocumentary, Ecoanimation, Ecodrama, Ecopoet[h]ics
*Except for the films “Mar de dentro” (Sea Within) and “ZLES” (Badwoods)
All sessions: 12 years old.
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