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
June 16 and 17, 2025
Darcy Ribeiro Campus
1ST ECOPERFORMANCE SEMINAR
June 20 and 1, 2025
SESSIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4
I ECOPERFORMANCE SEMINAR
University of Brasília - Darcy Ribeiro Campus
JUNE 16, 2025
10 am - ICC SUL - Amphitheater 10
WELCOME REMARKS - by Giselle Rodrigues, Nitza Tenenblat and Maura Baiocchi
ECOPERFORMANCE: POSSIBLE PERSPECTIVES FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS - Lecture by Wolfgang Pannek
12 am - ICC SUL - Amphitheater 10
ECO[PO]ETICS OF THE WORLD - Short Films - Session 1
I mbliana (This Year) - Dir. Zoë Uí Fhaoláin Green, Michael Kelly; Ireland; 22’; 2024
Old World - Dir. Roland Cartagena; Philippines; 8’; 2024
ZLES (Badwoods) - Dir. Jiří Hanzlíček; Czech Republic; 15’; 2024
Beton Sakti (Magic Concrete) - Dir. Alfred Banze, Agus Nur Amal; Germany, Indonesia; 9’; 2025
Terra - Dir. Cobie Orger; Australia; 10’; 2025
2 - 5 pm - Department of Performing Arts - Room B1-51
ECOPERFORMER AND SIMBIOSCENE
Theoretical-practical workshop addressing the farewell from AntropoScene toward the SimbioScene.
Instructors: Maura Baiocchi, Mônica Bernardes and Wolfgang Pannek, Taanteatro Cia (SP)
Submission here
6 pm - ICC SUL - Amphitheater 10
ECO[PO]ETICS OF THE WORLD - Short Films - Session 2
Ceux qui répondent à l'écho (Those Who Respond to the Echo) - Dir. Alexis Cousineau, Charlotte Gagnon; Canada; 19’; 2024
Sève (Sap) - Dir. Carine Iriarte; France; 9’; 2023
Martha - Dir. Marcel Barelli; Switzerland; 6’; 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
JUNE 17, 2025
10 am - ICC SUL - Amphitheater 10
ECOPERFORMATIVITIES:
NEW ECOLOGIES IN CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING AND AUDIOVISUAL ARTS
Participants: Alexandre Nunes, Betânia Victor, Debora Dodd Macedo, Maria Fernanda Miranda, Maura Baiocchi, Mônica Bernardes, Rita de Almeida Castro, Wolfgang Pannek
1 pm - ICC SUL - Amphitheater 10
ECO[PO]ETICS OF THE MIDWEST - Short film screening
Cerrado Ancestral (Ancestral Cerrado) - Dir. Maura Baiocchi; Brazil; 20'; 2010
Água Viva (Living Water) - Dir. Eva Santoro; Brazil; 20' min.; 2022
EcoPanFormance - Dir. Alexandre Nunes; 11:00 min.; 2021
Mundos (Worlds) - Dir. Tatiana Bittar, Lupe Leal and Teatro do Instante; 25' min.; 2023
Lubrina (Fog) - Dir. Leonardo Hecht, Vinícius Fernandes; Brasil; 15'; 2023
O fazedor de mirantes (The Mirant Maker) - Dir. Betânia Victor, Lucas Franzoni; 19’; 2024
Corpo desencanto (Disenchanted Body) - Dir. Cristhian Cantarino; Brasil; 16’; 2024
3 pm - ICC SUL - Amphitheater 10
ARTIST TALK on ECO[PO]ETICS OF THE MIDWEST
Participants: Alexandre Nunes, Clara Molina, Cristhian Cantarino, Eva Santoro, Giselle Rodrigues, Glau Soares, João Fernandes, Lupe Leal, Maura Baiocchi, Rita de Almeida Castro, Tatiana Bittar, Vinícius Fernandes.
CINE BRASÍLIA
SHCS EQS 106/107 - Brasília, Federal District, 70345-400
JUNE 20, 2025
6 pm - OPENING
Welcome Remarks - Giselle Rodrigues, Maura Baiocchi, Mônica Bernardes
6:20 pm - SESSION 1
O sonho de Cadinho (Cadinho’s Dream) - Dir. Martin Escriche; Brazil; 15’; 2024
ZLES (Badwoods) - Dir. Jiří Hanzlíček; Czech Republic; 15’; 2024
Beton Sakti (Magic Concrete) - Dir. Alfred Banze, Agus Nur Amal; Germany, Indonesia; 9’; 2025
Corpo desencanto (Disenchanted Body) - Dir.Cristhian Cantarino; Brasil; 16’; 2024.
(Re)acquaint the Fire - Dir. Véronique Doucet; Canada; 6’; 2023
Of Wind and Water - Dir. Alexandra Lexton; USA; 6’; 2024
Terra - Dir. Cobie Orger; Australia; 10’; 2025
Laguna Negra (Black Lagoon) - Dir. Matt Maynard; Chile; ); 14’; 2024
8 pm - SESSION 2 *
I mbliana (This Year) - Dir. Zoë Uí Fhaoláin Green, Michael Kelly; Ireland; 22’; 2024
Pegadas (Footprints) - Dir. Manu Sobral; Brazil; 13’; 2023
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
Ceux qui répondent à l'écho (Those Who Respond to the Echo) - Dir. Alexis Cousineau, Charlotte Gagnon; Canada; 19’; 2024
JUNE 21, 2025
6 pm - OPENING
Welcome Remarks - Giselle Rodrigues, Maura Baiocchi, Mônica Bernardes
6:20 pm - SESSION 3
Fuga (Escape) - Dir. Viníciux da Silva, Raphael Medeiros; Brazil; 15’; 2025
Dijî Jibîrkirinê (Against Forgetting) - Dir. Azad Azizyan; Kurdistan, USA; 22’; 2024
We Are All Dogs - Dir. Aminreza Alimohammadi; Iran; 14’; 2023
Movimentos migratórios (Migratory Movements) - Dir. Rogério Cathalá; Brazil; 14’; 2024
Martha - Dir. Marcel Barelli; Switzerland; 6’; 2024
Sève (Sap) - Dir. Carine Iriarte; France; 9’; 2023
Settling, Unsettling - Dir. Janine Randerson, Becca Wood, Juliana Preston; Nova Zelândia; 9’; 2025;
8 pm - SESSION 4*
Greenwash - Dir. Andrés Bronnimann; Costa Rica; 3’; 2024
O fazedor de mirantes (The Mirant Maker) - Dir. Betânia Victor, Lucas Franzoni; Brazil; 19’; 2024
Old World - Dir. Roland Cartagena; Philippines; 8’; 2024
A Spectre Is Haunting the City - Dir. Karl Kaisel; Estonia; 6’; 2024
Ode to Invisible - Dir. Linn Obrestad; Norway; 5’; 2025
Até o caroço (Until the Pit) - Dir. Thomas Canton; Brazil; 15’; 2024
The Inga Tree Model - Dir. Adam Wakeling; Honduras; 10’; 2024
Catching Fire - Dir. Colin Stilwell; USA; 13’; 2025
The Way I Missed the End - Dir. Eszter Marsalko, Wils Wilson; Scotland, United Kingdom; 6’; 2024
Mar de dentro (Sea from Within) - Dir. Nu Abe; Brazil; 18’; 2025
*Session 4: 18 years old.
Other 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