ALT EFF 2025 <> Opening Weekend

In a world where the old stories of domination over nature no longer hold, we stand at a crossroads: regeneration or collapse. What will be (y)our legacy?

The legacy we leave behind will be shaped by the strength of our community.

Join us for the opening weekend of the All Living Things Environmental Film Festival’s 6th edition as we take over Bangalore International Centre in Bengaluru. It’s a weekend-long celebration packed with stellar cinema, immersive art experiences, workshops, filmmaker Q&A, and delicious food and drinks included in your ticket price! There is something for everyone, so bring your family, bring your friends and meet the kind of community you’ve been waiting for.

PROGRAMME:

6th December, 2025, Saturday

Auditorium

12:00 - 12:15 PM: Kentaro (Tilmann Stewart, Gaku Matsuda | Australia, Japan | 14 min 32 secs | Japanese | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

12:15 - 12:35 PM: Ngarridurndeng Kured (We Are Going Home Now) (Dean Yibarbuk, Emma Masters | Australia | 17 min | Bininj Kunwok, English | 2024)

12:35 - 2:00 PM: Future Council (Damon Gameau | Australia, Netherlands | 1 hr 22 min | English | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

2:00 - 2:45 PM: The Story Behind The Story: Powering Climate Narratives

A conversation with:

Hilary McGeachy (Australia’s Consul General in Bengaluru)

Rushikesh Chavan (Director, The Habitats Trust),

Shweta Pandey (Vice President & General Counsel, Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India)

2:45 - 3:00 PM: Break

3:00 - 3:20 PM: Daughters of the Sea (Nicole Gormley, Nancy Kwon | Korea | 17 min 56 secs | English, Korean | 2023) INDIA PREMIERE

3:20 - 3:35 PM: The Girl and The Pot (Valentina Homem, Tati Bond| Brazil | 12 min | Nheengatu | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

3:35 - 3:50 PM: Ashen Sun (Camille Monnier | France | 13 min | French | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

3:50 - 4:00 PM: Break

4:00 - 6:00 PM: Yintah (Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano | Canada | 1 hr 50 mins | English, Witsuwit’en | 2024)

7:00 - 8:00 PM: Jal, Jungle, Jameen (Water, Forest, Land)

A performance by Elsewhere in India, Murthovic & Thiruda

A live performance and video game experience about a future world afflicted by cultural amnesia.

Seminar Hall

12:00 - 12:20 PM: The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing (Theo Panagopoulos | United Kingdom | 17 min | English, Arabic | 2024)

12:20 - 12:30 PM: Where trees weep (Ed Antoja | Spain | 10 min | Spanish | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

12:30 - 12:50 PM: Seaspeaker (Parvathi Nayar | India | 16 mins 03 secs | Tamil | 2024)

12:50 - 1:00 PM: Break

1:00 - 1:45 PM: Ocean Dialogues: Securing nature and culture

A panel by Dakshin Foundation, moderated by Marianne Manuel

1:45 - 2:00 PM: Break

2:00 - 2:10 PM: Walking Against the Heat (Divya Vilvaraj, Aishwarya Mohanty | India | ~10 mins | Marwadi, English | 2025)

A Mongabay - India x ALT EFF Film

2:10 - 2:25 PM: Down The Drain (Nitya Misra | India | 22 min | English, Kannada, Hindi | 2025)

2:25 - 3:00 PM: Waste and The City - The Mavallipura Landfill Story (Karishma Rao, Vishwesh Bhagirathi Shivaprasad | India | 28 min 42 secs | 2024)

3:00 - 3:15 PM: Break

3:15 - 4:00 PM: Panel Discussion with:

Nitya Misra, Filmmaker, Down the Drain

Vishwesh Shiva Prasad, Filmmaker, Waste and the City

Bhargavi S. Rao, Researcher, Environmental Support Group (ESG)

Nalini Shekar, Co-founder, Hasiru Dala

Madhur Singh, Founder-Editor, Climate Action Live

4:00 - 5:30 PM: Black Butterflies (David Baute | Spain, Panama | 1 hr 23 min | Spanish, Bengali, Turkana, French, Arabic, English | 2024)

5:30 - 5:45 PM: Break

5:45 - 7:30 PM: Black Snow (Alina Simone | United States | 1 hr 40 min | Russian | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

Library

12:00 - 12:20 PM: When Water Kills: The Arsenic Crisis in Eastern Uttar Pradesh (India | 14 min 44 secs | Hindi, English | 2023)

12:20 - 12:50 PM: Q&A with the filmmaker of When Water Kills: The Arsenic Crisis in Eastern Uttar Pradesh

12:50 - 1:10 PM: The Mushroom Keepers (Naveed Mulki | India | 16 min | English, Garo, Khasi | 2024)

1:10 - 1:40 PM: Q&A with the Filmmaker of The Mushroom Keepers

1:40 - 2:00 PM: Break

2:00 - 3:30 PM: Savages (Claude Barras | Switzerland, Belgium, France | 1 hr 27 mins | French | 2024)

3:30 - 3:45 PM: Break

3:45 - 4:15 PM: Genesis (Moon | India | 30 min | Hindi, English | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

4:15 - 5:00 PM: ‘Screenplay to Scroll: ‘The Evolving Art of Storytelling’ between Civic Studios and Momentum Shifts

A conversation with:

Kashmira Patil, Senior Creative Producer, Civic Studios

Prachur Goel, CEO, Momentum Shifts

Sailee Rane, Moderator

5:00 - 5:15 PM: Break

5:15 - 6:30 PM: Mongolia, Valley of the bears (Hamid Sardar | France | 1 hr 27 mins | Mongolian, English | 2023) INDIA PREMIERE

Gallery (All Day)

The Giants - An Immersive Experience (For the first time in India get transported into the heart of Australia's ancient forests)

7th December 2025, Sunday

Auditorium

12:00 - 1:30 PM: Made in Ethiopia (Xinyan Yu, Max Duncan | Canada, Ethiopia, USA, UK | 1hr 30 min | Chinese, Amharic, English, and Oromo | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

1:30 - 1:45: Break

1:45 - 3:15 PM: The Last Dive (Cody Sheehy | USA, Mexico | 1 hr 28 mins | English | 2025) INDIA PREMIERE

3:15 - 3:45 PM: Break

3:45 - 5:45 PM: Marching in the Dark (Kinshuk Surjan | Belgium, Netherlands, India | 1 hr 48 mins | Marathi | 2024)

5:45 - 6:00 PM: Break

7:00 - 8:00 PM: Beware of Plastic Asura: A Yakshagana performance

Seminar Hall

12:00 - 1:30 PM: Stealing Giants (Laurin Merz, Karl Ammann | Switzerland, Kenya, Lao, Namibia, UAE, China | 1 hr 30 mins | English, Laotian | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

1:30 - 2:00 PM: Break

2:00 - 2:30 PM: Sukande Kasáká Ailing Land (Kamikia Kisedje, Fred Rahal | Brazil | 30 min | Khĩsêtjê | 2025) INDIA PREMIERE

2:30 - 2:50 PM: Beneath The Panel: The Hidden Losses of India’s Solar Parks (Aparna Ganesan | India | 18 min 41 secs | English, Tamil | 2025) INDIA PREMIERE

3:00 - 3:30 PM: Q&A with the Filmmaker of Beneath The Panel: The Hidden Losses of India’s Solar Parks

3:30 - 4:15 PM: Whose Land Lights Up the Future?

A discussion on green energy presented by Land Conflict Watch

4:30 - 5:30 PM: Mikuba (Petna Ndaliko Katondolo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1 hr | Kiswahili | 2025)

5:30 - 5:45 PM: Break

5:45 - 7:15 PM: Miyazaki - Spirit of the Nature (Leo Favier | France, Japan | 1 hr 24 min | English, French, Japanese | 2024)

Library

12:00 - 12:20 PM: Portales (Elena Duque | Spain | 16 min | No Dialogues | 2025) INDIA PREMIERE

12:20 - 12:40 PM: When The Wind Rises (Hung Chen | Taiwan | 18 min | Mandarin | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

12:40 - 1:05 PM: Puffling (Jessica Bishopp | Iceland, UK | 20 min 22 secs | Icelandic | 2023) INDIA PREMIERE

1:05 - 1:15 PM: Desi Oon (Suresh Eriyat | India | 8 min 2 secs | Hindi | 2025)

1:30 - 2:00 PM: Break

2:00 - 3:00 PM: Tiny Tides by Baeru Blue Lab

A virtual underwater experience for kids

3:00 - 3:30 PM: Break

3:30 - 4:20 PM: The Dooars World (Shaon Pritam Baral | India | 47 min | English, Bengali, Hindi | 2025)

4:20 - 5:00 PM: Q&A with filmmaker of The Dooars World

5:00 - 5:30 PM: How Mallah Women Fought Caste Hierarchy and Sex Slavery (Monica Jha, Shamsheer Yousaf, Sriram Vittalamurthy | India | 22 mins | Maithili, Hindi | 2024)

5:30 - 5:40 PM: Discussion / sharing circle

5:40 - 6:00 PM: Would You Still Love Me If I was a Sticky Frog? (Myles Storey | Malaysia, UK | 17 mins | English | 2024)

6:00 - 7:00 PM: ALT EFF Voices - Open Mic

Gallery (All Day)

The Giants - An Immersive Experience (For the first time in India get transported into the heart of Australia's ancient forests)

Student discount tickets require a valid student ID for entry.

See you there!