Since the dawn of time, storytelling in community has shaped our mindset, our outlook and ultimately, our behavior. With record heat, oscillating droughts & floods, fires, melting glaciers (and ... you know the rest) our current narrative needs some course correcting.

All Living Things Environmental Film Festival (ALT EFF) is back for a 5th edition, pan-India cultural event. Join us at NAU Foundation for a unique evening of cinema, art & community. Watch award-winning global films on regeneration, activism, resilience and hope and engage in conversations with India’s most inspiring change-makers. Let’s restore the narrative of stewardship, together. All are welcome!

PROGRAM:

6th December, Friday

4:30 - 4:40 PM : Your Pet Cat’s Wild Relative Has A New Home (Shatabdi Chakrabarti | India | 06 mins 33 secs | English | 2023)

4:40 - 4:50 PM : Wild Hope: One Golden Chance (Brazil | 9 mins 57 secs | English, Portuguese | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

4:50 - 5:15 PM : The Forest Of The Honey Bees (Erwan Le Gal | France | 20 mins | French | 2024)

5:15 - 5:45 PM : Sharing circle/Discussion

5:45 - 6:15 PM : Spirit of Place (Jack Cooper Stimpson | UK | 29 mins 54 secs | English | 2023) INDIA PREMIERE

6:15 - 6:35 PM : Batsies (Liz Unger | USA | 15 mins 22 secs | English | 2023) INDIA PREMIERE

6:35 - 7:00 PM : Break

7:00 - 8:15 PM : The Night Visitors (Michael Gitlin | USA | 1 hr 12 mins | English | 2023) INDIA PREMIERE

8:15 - 9:00 PM : Q&A with the filmmaker of Night Visitors (online)

7th December, Saturday

4:30 - 4:45 PM : Camels of the Sea (Urja | India | 13 mins 31 secs | Gujarati, Hindi | 2022)

4:45 - 5:00 PM : Traditional engineers reduce water stress: Kattas of Kerala (Jyotsna Ricchariya | India | 10 mins 05 secs | English, Malayalam and Tullu | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

5:00 - 5:10 PM : Benden Sana (Over To You) (Tao Farren-Hefer | Turkey | 7 mins 32 secs | Turkish | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

5:10 - 5:30 PM : Wild Summon (Karni and Saul | UK | 14 mins 39 secs | English | 2023) INDIA PREMIERE

5:30 - 6:00 PM : Sharing circle/Discussion

6:00 - 6:15 PM : Curupira - Mother of the Forest (Lea Hejn | UK, Netherlands | 12 mins 23 secs | Portuguese | 2023) INDIA PREMIERE

6:15 - 6:45 PM : Burnt Country (Kirsten Slemint | Australia | 17 mins 45 secs | English | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

6:45 - 7:00 PM : Break

7:00 - 8:30 PM : Reading Landscape with David Holmgren (Dave Meagher | Australia | 1 hr 30 mins | English | 2023) INDIA PREMIERE

8:30 - 9:00 PM : ALT EFF Voices With prompts and/or select curation provided by us, this is an open-mic for audiences to express themselves

8th December, Sunday

4:30 - 4:40 PM : A Work in Progress (कार्य प्रगति पर है ) (Nipun Prabhakar, Oshee Johri | India | 8 mins 20 secs | Hindi | 2023)

4:40 - 5:00 PM : Kenya`s Desert Alert (David Owino | Kenya | 15 mins 03 secs | English | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

5:00 - 5:30 PM : The Feast (Virundhu) (Rishi Chandna | India | 25 mins 13 secs | Tamil | 2023)

5:30 - 6:00 PM : Sharing circle/Discussion

6:00 - 6:20 PM : Lunatic (Robin Noorda | Netherlands | 16 mins | English | 2024) 

6:20 - 6:45 PM : A Body Called Life (Spencer MacDonald | USA, Switzerland, Poland | 14 mins 51 secs | English | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

6:45 - 7:00 PM : Break

7:00 - 7:10 PM : Searching for soppu: Foraging food in Bengaluru (Ridah Zaman | India | 9 mins 20 secs | Kannada, English | 2024)

7:10 - 8:15 PM : Foragers (Jumana Manna | Palestine | 1 hr 03 mins | Arabic, Hebrew | 2022) INDIA PREMIERE

8:15 - 9:00 PM : Sharing circle/Discussion & ALT EFF Voices With prompts and/or select curation provided by us, this is an open-mic for audiences to express themselves

NON-FILM PROGRAM DETAILS :

ALT EFF Voices:

ALT EFF Voices is a dynamic spoken-word platform that will be a key feature of our annual festival, providing a space for individuals to share their personal stories, thoughts, and observations on the pressing environmental challenges we face today. With ALT EFF Voices' inaugural edition during ALT EFF 2024, we hope people of all ages and backgrounds will feel free to channel their grief, anger, hope, and passion into powerful yet creative messages about our environment.