Check Out Past CEFF Films
Explore our collection of the 2024 festival films now available for streaming and click on titles for descriptions. Titles in green indicate films featured in the CEFF 4 Classrooms screening.
A Cry from the Mountains (2024)
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A small group of makers set their minds to Last May, record temperatures provoked a glacial lake outburst. Record flooding and monsoons swept away bridges and villages below the Shisper glacier. Higher up the mountains, a semi-nomadic people called the Wakhi were leading their yaks to summer pastures. This film profiles the scientists concerned with the changes in northern Pakistan’s climate change and the villagers dedicated to upholding traditional values.
Directed by: Karim Shallwanee
A Reason for Hope (2024)
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Featured in 2024 CEFF 4 Classrooms Screening
Learn how one community is embracing the change from fossil fuels and showcasing how to integrate renewable energy into the classroom.
Directed by: Mason Mirabile
Anxious (2024)
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Noah is so worried about climate change he can’t sleep at night. But if he’s so worried, why won’t he change his ways?
Directed by: Meron Alon
Brearth (2024)
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An experimental animated film created with AI-generated visuals that will take your breath away… Death, life, decomposition, and what it all means.
Directed by: Julio Del Alamo
Covenant Of The Salmon People (2024)
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This 60-minute documentary portrays the Nez Perce Tribe’s ancient covenant with salmon. It follows their efforts to uphold this ancient relationship as dams and climate impacts threaten the extinction of species and the cornerstones of their culture.
Directed by: Shane Thomas Anderson
Dark Sacred Night (2024)
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Many people live and die without ever seeing the Milky Way. Princeton University astrophysicist Gaspar Bakos wants to change that.
Directed by: Jared Flesher
Disappearing Jewels (2024)
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Remembering the filmmaker’s grandfather who was a blind man with extra climate and weather sense, we interview three ocean experts to express his view on the ocean warming and climate change.
Directed by: Will Kim
Fight Food Waste (2024)
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Featured in 2024 CEFF 4 Classrooms Screening
This film shows why food waste is a problem while sharing ways people can reduce waste in their homes, schools, and communities to help reverse climate change.
Directed by: Maiana Nelson
From the Heartland (2024)
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From the Heartland follows a 3rd generation family farm as they struggle between the decision to save their land or their traditions.
Directed by: Matt Coddaire
Groundwork - A Family Journey Into Regenerative Cotton (2024)
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Follow as the Kahle family breaks the cycle of generational health issues by revolutionizing their farming practices. Driven by a deep commitment to their family and community’s well-being, the Kahles bring revelatory science practices to combat years of problematic, status-quo methods of farming.
Directed by: Lindsey Hagen
Igniting Change: Maui Brush Fires (2024)
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Featured in 2024 CEFF 4 Classrooms Screening
Produced by high school students in the Huliau Environmental Filmmaking Club, this short film uncovers the causes and impacts of Maui’s brush fires. It urges action and collaboration through partnerships with the Maui Fire Department and Maui Nui Marine Resource Council. (Completed prior to the tragic wildfires of August 2023)
Directed by: Calvin Araki, Kaiden Yoshikawa, Lewis Snyder
It's Time (2024)
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Featured in 2024 CEFF 4 Classrooms Screening
Set in 2045, a group of teenagers get an unexpected opportunity to change the past to help solve the world’s environmental issues by creating a video.
Directed by: Camdan Mead
Jack's Solar Garden: An Agrivoltaics Model in the Shadow of the Rocky Mountains (2024)
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Agrivoltaics combines solar and agriculture to create a win-win scenario for land use.
Directed by: Chad Weber
Jaguar Del Cielo (2024)
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Follow field tech Felix Tafoya’s journey to better understand and conserve jaguars – the apex predator in the El Cielo Biosphere Reserve in Tamaulipas, Mexico. By catching jaguars and fitting them with GPS collars, Felix and his co-workers are able to track and get insights into their mysterious and elusive lives.
Directed by: Austin Alvarado
Jumuiya - Lasting Effects (2024)
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60 thousand elephants… 63 million people… The human / elephant conflict is a daily occurrence that KACF and TEF is looking to solve and they’ll need the help from locals to make it happen.
Directed by: Michael Hartzog
Kittengate: Outrage After Climate Scientist Feeds Kittens to Diners (2024)
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In shocking images obtained from the ECO27 summit, attendees are eating what they believe to be cream of chicken soup when renowned climate scientist Dr. Jay Kumari leaps to the podium and announces he’s swapped the chicken with… something else. Bryce Harding discusses the controversy with Dr. Melanie Joy, the world’s leading expert on the psychology of eating animals.
Directed by: Melanie Joy
Our Children's River (2024)
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The Kofan indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon must protect its ancestral territory from encroachment by large energy companies.
Directed by: Dominic Gill
Paddle Tribal Waters (2024)
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Paddle Tribal Waters documents a group of Indigenous youth as they prepare to paddle the Klamath River from source to sea after the largest dam removal in history.
Directed by: Paul Robert Wolf Wilson, Rush Sturges
ProTract Pittsburgh (2024)
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What if small tidepools of sustainability are happening all around us, waiting to be discovered, emulated, and celebrated?
Directed by: Dean Bog
Sagarmatha Next (2024)
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In this film you will learn about the important work of Sagarmatha Next, an NGO working to clear trash and waste from the Himalayan high altitude environments in Nepal. They are using CarryMeBack-bags and crowdsourcing to remove 10000 kgs of waste from Mount Everest region.
Directed by: Martin Ivar Edström
Saving Our Soil (2024)
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Featured in 2024 CEFF 4 Classrooms Screening
Once there is no richness in soil, you have forsaken the planet in many ways. Save our Soil. Now.
Directed by: Ayush Talukder
Shape of Hope (2024)
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Explore a more sustainable and meaningful alternative for crafting surfboards and snowboards. Production of foam core requires fossil fuels and energy-intensive processes. Follow the process of moving from plastic to syroforam to wood has revolutionzed the surf lifestyle, and enhanced its beauty.
Directed by: Eric Dennis
Silent Skies - The First Electric Plane Flyover (2024)
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Three visionary college students pioneer the first manned electric airplane stadium flyover, signaling the dawn of America’s shift to green aviation, and creating precedent for FAA approval of future electric aircraft demonstrations.
Directed by: Matthew Troy, Casey Hogue
Study Aboard (2024)
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Every April, 60 college kids from around the country attend Living Lands and Waters’ unique “Alternative Spring Break” program – trading happy hours and beach tans for spending a week on McKellar Lake with founder Chad Pregracke and his inspiring river rat crew as they clean up the Mississippi River’s waterways and learn about river-related careers.
Directed by: Peter Goetz
The Fire Brigade (2024)
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In Mauritania, bushfires are increasing at an alarming rate – refugees and locals band together to fight back, protect their environment, and preserve their traditional way of life.
Directed by: David Alexander
The Story of the Leatherback (2024)
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Featured in 2024 CEFF 4 Classrooms Screening
The Leatherback Sea Turtle is the largest species of turtle on Earth. Told through the eyes of a 12 year-old boy, he has been keeping up with its status and journey in Thailand for 6 years. Learn about its declining population and how to save the sanctuary where they were born, so that they can have a place to return to lay their eggs.
Directed by: Alongkot Chukaew
There Was a Cedar Forest (2024)
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Featured in 2024 CEFF 4 Classrooms Screening
This film shows the rich biodiversity of a Middle Atlas cedar forest in Morocco, alive and full of animals. Their survival is threatened by drought. The thousand-year-old cedars there were supposed to be magnificent, according to a 2010 tour guide, but all that was found were dead stumps. In the space of a decade, these trees that have stood for centuries have disappeared forever.
Directed by: Arthur Cech
Tiny Threats, Big Problems (2024)
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Featured in 2024 CEFF 4 Classrooms Screening
Three middle school students, aided by the Maui Invasive Species Committee, produce an enlightening film spotlighting the dangers of invasive species in Hawaiian ecosystems. The film’s focus on Coqui Frogs and Little Fire Ants offers actionable solutions for halting their impact.
Directed by: Julian Somilleda, Kamakana Casco, Kaia Sauntere
Trees with Names (2024)
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When Rebecca’s home was nearly incinerated by the Getty Fire in 2019, it left her afraid for her children’s futures on planet Earth. In Trees With Names, Rebecca assuages her fears by taking dramatic action to reforest her canyon and lead a new generation of children into an attitude of hope and climate optimism.
Directed by: Nick Weiss
Unacceptable Risk: Dr. Margaret Kripke on Cancer and the Environment (2024)
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A cancer expert’s journey from skeptic to believer in the devastating effects of common chemicals leads her to become a staunch advocate for eliminating toxic chemicals from our everyday environment.
Directed by: Cynthia McKeown
Unveiling The City (2024)
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Featured in 2024 CEFF 4 Classrooms Screening
Explore the captivating world of San Francisco’s fog, known as Karl, and uncover the hidden connection between climate change and our daily lives, inspiring action for a sustainable future.
Directed by: Oliver Cho
Vanishing Oasis (2024)
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The Great Salt Lake provides for 10 million migratory birds every year, but if the lake continues to shrink, starving birds will line its shores and toxic dust storms will cloud Salt Lake City’s skies.
Directed by: Jaxon Derow
Venus Ascending: Gender Equality & Water (2024)
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Featured in 2024 CEFF 4 Classrooms Screening
A major cause of gender inequality in the world is the scarcity of clean water that forces women and their daughters to walk several miles each day to collect water, preventing them from seeking employment or going to school.
Directed by: Asher Elias Anantham
We are DPS Students for Climate Action (2024)
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Featured in 2024 CEFF 4 Classrooms Screening
We are DPS Students for Climate Action – A group of students from around Denver Public Schools who campaigned for almost two years to pass a climate policy accompanied by a 100+ page Climate Action Plan!
Directed by: Amelia Isabel, Fernandez Rodriguez