Environmental Film Festival

Floodland

2024, Directed by Jordan Giusti

Lismore is Australia's flood capital, priding itself on historic resilience in the face of immeasurable deluge. But as the climate crisis rises tides, uncomfortable truths boil to the surface, leaving residents wondering if their precarious way of life can survive the changing world.

Filmed over three years, this gripping and deeply human documentary explores how residents must choose to grit it out, adapt or abandon their homes in the face of an uncertain future.

Planet Earth - From Pole to Pole

2006, Directed by Alastair Fothergill & Mark Linfield

When Planet Earth first aired in 2006, it stopped the world. Groundbreaking aerial photography, five years in the making, and images of our planet that no one had ever seen before. Nearly two decades on, it will still take your breath away.

The lives of animals and plants are dominated by the sun and fresh water which trigger seasonal journeys. The latest technology (of 2006) and aerial photography enable the Planet Earth team to track some of the greatest mass migrations.

Planet Earth - Mountains

2006, Directed by Alastair Fothergill

Tour the mightiest mountain ranges, starting with the birth of a mountain at one of the lowest places on Earth and ending at the summit of Everest.

One of Earth's rarest phenomena is a lava lake that has been erupting for over 100 years. The same forces built the Simian Mountains where troops of gelada baboons live, nearly a thousand strong. In the Rockies, grizzlies build winter dens inside avalanche-prone slopes. The programme also brings us astounding images of a snow leopard hunting on the Pakistan peaks, a world first.

Planet Earth - Shallow Seas

2006, Directed by Alastair Fothergill

A humpback whale mother and calf embark on an epic journey from tropical coral paradises to storm ravaged polar seas. Newly discovered coral reefs in Indonesia reveal head-butting pygmy seahorses, flashing 'electric' clams and bands of sea kraits, 30-strong, which hunt in packs.

Elsewhere, plagues of sea urchins fell forests of giant kelp. With new ultra high-speed photography, the lightning ambushes of great white sharks on seals are slowed down as they leap out of the ocean to catch their prey. Huge bull fur seals attack king penguins, who despite their weight disadvantage, put up a spirited defence.

Yurlu | Country

2025, Directed by Yaara Bou Melhem

The breathtaking red landscape of WA’s Pilbara region is scarred by millions of tonnes of toxic waste. With an exclusion zone of nearly 47,000 hectares, it’s the largest contaminated site in the Southern Hemisphere. It is also the ancestral Country, or Yurlu, of Banjima Elder Maitland Parker.

Director Yaara Bou Melhem documents Parker’s environmental and cultural activism, his long-standing battle for justice and his unbreakable bond with Country.

The North Drift

Australian Premiere

2023, Directed by Steffen Krones

After a profound experience on the Lofoten Islands in the Arctic Ocean, filmmaker Steffen Krones begins a mission to track the journey of plastic waste across international waters. Teaming up with scientists and local guides, Steffen maps the damaging journey of plastic pollution that spans oceans and borders, and makes the case that protecting marine ecosystems is everyone's responsibility.

YUMI - The Whole World

2025, Directed by Felix Golenko

In a brave fight for survival, a team of students from the University of the South Pacific are taking on one of the biggest legal challenges of our time.

This inspiring documentary follows their campaign to push through a historic resolution at the United Nations that will legally define what governments are obligated in the face of climate change. Bold, urgent and quietly hopeful, this is a film about what people can achieve when the stakes could not be higher.

Ikea elsker træ (IKEA Loves Wood)

Australian Premiere

2024, Directed by Tom Heinemann

Every second a tree is cut down to become an affordable IKEA product. The Swedish mega-company claims it's sustainable, but is that really the case?

Investigative journalist, Tom Heinemann, visits IKEA's forests in Romania's Carpathian Mountains to discover how their production line is impacting the safety of the forest, wildlife and local biodiversity.

Great Natural Wonders of the World

2002, Directed by Peter Crawford

Before Planet Earth, there was this. David Attenborough at his finest, bringing the world's most spectacular natural wonders to life with breathtaking cinematography and that unmistakable voice.

From the highest, coldest summit to the lowest, hottest place on Earth, from the world's tallest waterfalls to its most impressive caverns, this unique television experience celebrates the wealth of natural features that makes planet Earth so varied, distinctive and spectacularly beautiful.

David Attenborough travels across the seven continents in an intrepid television quest that begins in North America where he witnesses dawn breaking over the forbidding terrain of Death Valley. He completes his global journey in the world's most isolated wild place, Antarctica, where he reflects on the extraordinary, beautiful and inspiring natural wonders of our planet.

Lost for Words

Australian Premiere

2025, Directed by Hannah Papacek Harper

Dandelion. Acorn. Otter. Bluebell. Nature's words are disappearing from the dictionary - and perhaps from our lives. This poetic journey through language and landscapes explores how reconnecting with nature’s vanishing vocabulary can help us reimagine our future with hope.

Hannah Papacek Harper’s wonderful engagement with the English language is a lyrical and visually rich journey around the UK. Inspired by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s beloved book The Lost Words, the film places nature as its central character and acts as a hopeful and heartfelt rally to reawaken our senses and forge deeper, more compassionate bonds with the world we live in.