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 6 – 8, 2025
JUNE 6 - 7pm - SESSIONS 1 & 2
JUNE 7 - 7pm - SESSIONS 3, 4 & 5
JUNE 8 - 7pm - SESSIONS 6, 7, 8 & 9
PROGRAM - download here
JUNE 6 - 7pm - SESSION 1 - 99 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.
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.
Mar de dentro (Sea from Within) Dir: Nu Abe; Brazil; 18’; 2025.
SESSION 2 - 51 min.
ZLES (Badwoods) Dir: Jiří Hanzlíček; Czech Republic; 15’; 2024.
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.
JUNE 7 - 7pm - 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 - 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 5 - 60 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.
Dijî Jibîrkirinê (Against Forgetting) Dir: Azad Azizyan; Kurdistan, USA; 22’; 2024.
Sève (Sap) Dir: Carine Iriarte; France; 9’; 2023.
JUNE 8 - 7pm - SESSION 6 - 48 min.
Latitude Fénix (Angular Phoenix) Dir: Welket Bungué. Germany, Portugal; 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) Director: 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, Brasil; 10’, 2023.
*Session 1: 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