Previous Festivals.

EFFA presents: Summer of Change

21 Jan - 4 Feb 2021
Online Festival

| Features

Citizen Nobel | Stéphane Goël, Switzerland (2020) - Australian Premiere
Climate Exodus | David Baute, Spain (2020) - Australian Premiere
Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs | Edmunds Jansons, Latvia, Poland (2019)
Smog Town | Han Meng, China (2019) - Australian Premiere
That's Wild | Michiel Thomas, USA (2020) - Australian Premiere
The Edge of Existence | James Suter, Charlie Luckock, South Africa (2020) - Australian
The Last Ice | Scott Ressler, USA (2019)
Warrior Women | Christina D. King, Elizabeth A. Castle, USA (2018) - Australian Premiere
Wild Things | Sally Ingleton, Australia (2020)
X-Trillion [Work in Progress] | Eleanor Church, England (2020) - Australian Premiere

| Animated shorts

Amucha | Jesús Sánchez Fuentes, Chile (2019) - Australian Premiere
Euphoria / Algeria | Katalin Egely, Hungary, Argentina (2018)
H2O | Fathima Shanaz, Sri Lanka (2018) - Australian Premiere
Hudson Geese | Bernardo Britto (USA) - 2019
Petrichor | Shirin Shakhesi, Australia (2019) - Australian Premiere
Red Fin | Celia Campos, France (2019) - Australian Premiere
Swiss-Made | Sophie Wietlisbach, Switzerland (2017)
The Birds | Joe Chang, Canada (2019) - Australian Premiere
Wade | Upamanyu Bhattacharyya, Kalp SanghviIndia (2020)
Winter in the Rainforest | Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, Estonia, Lithuania, Mexico (2019) - Australian Premiere

| Elders & The Earth shorts

7 Hectares Back | Dorota Migas-Mazur, Poland (2019)
Nibi Walk | Keely Kernan, USA (2019) - Australian Premiere
Swimming Yesterday | Damian Kane, Australia (2020) - Australian Premiere
The Man of the Trees | Andrea Trivero, Italy (2018) - Victorian Premiere
To Keep As One | Katie Basile, USA (2020)
Voices on the Road | Bethan John, Eilidh Munro, United Kingdom (2019) - Australian Premiere

| Experimental Shorts

A Demonstration | Beny Wagner, Sasha Litvintseva, The Netherlands (2020) - Australian Premiere
A Mordida | Pedro Neves Marques, Portugal (2019) - Australian Premiere
All, or Nothing at All | Margit Lukács and Persijn Broersen, The Netherlands (2019) - Australian Premiere
Hella Trees | Ayo Akingbade
The Pit | Jona Gerlach, USA (2019)
Wishing Well | Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany (2018) - Australian Premiere

Presented in partnership with Bank Australia, the High Commission of Canada and City of Darebin.

EFFA presents: Out of this World

29 Oct - 8 Nov 2020
Online Special Science/Fiction Event

| Features

Poissonsexe (Fishlove) | Olivier Babinet, France (2019)
Echoes of the Invisible | Steve Elkins, USA (2020)
O Menino e o Mundo (Boy & The World) | Alê Abreu, Brazil (2013)
Meat the Future | Liz Marshall, Canada (2020)
Spaceship Earth | Matt Wolf, USA (2020)
Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies [Retroflectors: the astronaut, the robot, the alien] | Ralo Mayer, Austria (2018)
The Other Side of Mars | Minna Långström, Finland (2019)
The Mirrored Message | Benjamin Tiven, Sweden, USA (2018)

| Talks & activities

Keynote | Dr Lewis Dartnell and Alanta Colley
Reimagining Landscapes panel discussion | Tamara Davis, James Bradley, Karlie Noon & Richard Geddes
Rethinking Food Systems panel discussion | Erica Hughes, Nornie Bero & Tishiko King
Sabee Dombois - Cook with Nornie Bero workshop | Mabu Mabu & Nornie Bero
Meat the Future - At The Intersection of Food & Tech panel discussion | Prof Robyn Warner, Liz Marhsall, David Kay, Bianca Le & Thomas King
Radically EFF'd - Through the Extraterrestrial Lens mini talks | Tyson Yunkaporta, Ralo Mayer & PluginHUMAN
The Biosphere and The Biosphereans panel discussion |
Masterclass: Meet the Future | Liz Marshall & Kate Pappas
Playtime: Blast off with Briony | Polyglot Theatre
Playtime: Recycling fun | Polyglot Theatre

Presented in partnership with Inner North Community Foundation, Bendigo Bank, The High Commission of Canada & Northcote Bakeshop

EFFA ’19

24 Oct - 1 Nov 2019
Cinema Nova, State Library Victoria, Palace Westgarth, IMAX, RMIT Kaleide

| Features

Backyard Wilderness 3D | Susan Todd, Andrew Young, USA (2018)
City Dreamers | Joseph Hillel, Canada (2018) - Australian Premiere
Encounters at the End of the World | Werner Herzog, Germany, USA (2007)
Extra-Terrestrial Ecologies [Retroflectors: the astronaut, the robot, the alien] | Ralo Mayer, Austria (2018) - Australian Premiere. Preluded by The Mirrored Message by Benjamin Tiven (2018)
Grit | Cynthia Wade & Sasha Friedlander, Indonesia, USA (2018) - Australian Premiere
Into the Jungle | Mark Hanlin, Australia, Papua New Guinea, UK (2018)
Le Temps des forêts (The Time of Forests) | François-Xavier Drouet, France (2018) - Australian Premiere
Ma’ohi Nui, in the heart of the ocean my country lies | Annick Ghijzelings, Belgium, Tahiti (2018) - Australian Premiere
Máxima | Claudia Sparrow, USA (2019) - Australian Premiere
Mossville: When Great Trees Fall | Alexander John Glustrom, USA, South Africa (2019) - Australian Premiere
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | Werner Herzog, UK (2019) - Victorian Premiere
Queen Without Land | Asgeir Helgestad, Norway (2018) - Australian Premiere
Swarm Season | Sarah J. Christman, USA (2019) - Australian Premiere
The Hottest August | Brett Story, USA, Canada (2019) - Australian Premiere
This Mountain Life | Grant Baldwin Canada (2018) - Victorian Premiere
Titixe | Tania Hernandez Velasco, Mexico (2018) - Australian Premiere
Youth Unstoppable | Slater Jewell-Kemker, Canada (2018)

| Experimental shorts

Eroded Pyramid | Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Mexico (2019)
Leaf Cutters | Catherine Chalmers, USA (2018)
Resistance | Laurence Favre, Switzerland (2019)
Tåke | Inger-Lise Hansen, Norway (2018)
The Tasmanian Tiger | Vergine Keaton, France (2018)
To Get In Touch With Crows | Rhona Mühlebach, Switzerland (2019)
Trees Down Here | Ben Rivers, USA (2018)

| Australasian shorts

.TV | G. Anthony Svatek | USA, Tuvalu (2017)
Lifetime Guarantee | Sophia Armstrong, Australia (2019) 
Mycelium Made | Emily Medbury, Australia (2019)
The Divers | Angela How, Australia (2019)
The River is Me | David Freid, New Zealand (2019)
Without Water | Rachel Chen, Australia (2019)

| Kids shorts

Baked Fish | Guillem Miró, Spain (2018)
Birthplace | Sil van der Woerd & Jorik Dozy, The Netherlands (2018)
Kuap | Nils Hedinger, Switzerland (2018)
Maybe Just a Fairytale | Geoff Spanner, Australia (2018)
Saccage | Alexandre Boesch-Brassens, Jonathan Breuer, Julie Mansuy, Nicolas Ocipski, Paul Gaulier, Samuel Ramamisoa, Sylvain Masson & William Rima, France (2017)
The Guardian Elephant Warriors of Reteti | Ami Vitale, USA (2018)

| International shorts

Bare Existence | Max Lowe, USA (2019)
Bayandalai: Lord of the Taiga, Aner Etxebarria & Pablo Vidal, Spain, Mongolia (2018)
Lotus | Mohammadreza Vatandoust, Iran (2018)
Or Else Everybody Dies | David Nast Cole, USA (2018)
Sides Of A Horn | Toby Wosskow, USA, South Africa (2018)
The Flood Is Coming | Gabriel Böhmer, UK (2018)
Uniontown | Fraser Jones, USA (2018)

Presented in partnership with Bank Australia, City of Darebin & the High Commission of Canada

EFFA ’18

11-19 Oct 2018
ACMI, Palace Westgarth - Melbourne

| Features

Anote’s Ark | Matthieu Rytz, Canada (2018)
As Worlds Divide | Rob Henry, Australia (2017)
Bird of Prey | Eric Liner, USA (2017)
Dark Eden | Jasmin Herold, Michael Beamish, Canada (2018)
Into the Okavango | Neil Gelinas, USA (2018)
Living the Change | Jordan Osmond, Antoinette Wilson, New Zealand/Australia (2018)
The Ancient Woods | Mindaugas Survila, Lithuania (2017)
The Devil We Know | Stephanie Soechtig & Jeremy Seifert, USA (2018)
The Experimental City | Chad Freidrichs, USA (2017)
The Milk System | Andreas Pichler, Germany (2017)
The Panguna Syndrome | Olivier Pollet & Alexandre Berman, France (2017)
The Reluctant Radical | Lindsey Goodwin-Grayzel, USA (2018)
Sleep Has Her House | Scott Barley, UK (2017)
Stella Polaris Ulloriarsuaq | Yatri N. Niehaus, Germany/Greenland (2017)
Welcome to Sodom | Florian Weigensamer, Christian Kröne, Austria, Ghana (2018)
When Lambs Become Lions | Jon Kasbe, Kenya, USA (2018)

| Experimental shorts

After the Volcano | Léo Favier, France (2018)
After/Life | Puck Lo, USA, (2018)
Becoming | Jan van Ijken, The Netherlands (2017)
Borders | Damjan Kozole, Slovenia (2017)
Eighth Continent | Yorgos Zois, Greece (2017)
Managed Retreat | Nathan Kensinger, USA (2018)
Nature: All Rights Reserved | Sebastian Mulder, The Netherlands (2017)

| International shorts

Blau | David Jansen, Germany (2018)
Born of Stone | Emilio Bellu, Italy (2017)
Gold Fever | Raul de la Fuente, Spain (2017)
Mountain | Grégoire Verbeke, Belgium (2017)
Nobody Loves Me | Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman, USA, Peru (2017)
The Fourth Kingdom | Alex Lora & Adan Aliaga, Spain/USA (2017)
Timbó | Peiman Zekavat, UK (2017)

| Australian shorts

Serial Pest | Billy Dahlenburg, Australia
The Junkyard | Roxanne Halley, Ash Jones, Clancy Walker, Australia
Bee-Sharp Honeybee | Deacon Warner, Australia, USA
Camera Trap | Marty O'Brien, Australia, Canada
Courage for the Long Haul | Rani Brown, Australia
Beeing Kept | Eve Byers, Australia
Darebin’s Natural Heritage | Lee Ramsayer-Bache, Nicholas Scott, Australia
Water is Life | Cam Suttie, Australia
Rusty Swordfish | Jarrod Boord, Australia
Namanu Rruni – Albatross Island | Matthew Newton, Australia

EFFA ’17

12 - 19 Oct 2017
ACMI, Planetarium, RMIT Food Co-op, RMIT Swanston Academic Building - Melbourne; National Library of Australia - Canberra

| Features

Carnage | Simon Amstell, UK (2017)
Let There Be Light | Mila Aung-Thwin, Van Royko, Canada (2017)
The Swirl | Laura Herrero Garvin, Mexico (2016)
Wild Plants | Nicholas Humbert, Germany/Switzerland (2016)
Remote Sense | Jonny Knox, Scotland (2016)
Connection to Country | Tyson Mowarin, Australia (2017)
Drokpa | Yan Chun Su, USA, China (2016)
The Borneo Case | Eric Pauser, Dylan Williams, Sweden (2017)
Honey, Rain & Dust | Nujoom Aljhanem, UAE (2016)
Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas | Joakim Demmer, Sweden, Germany, Finland (2016)
I Stand: The Guardians of the Water | Kyle Kauwika Harris, USA (2017) 
Food Coop | Tom Boothe, USA, France, (2016)
Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival | Fabrizio Terranova, Belgium (2016)
Brasilia: Life After Design | Bart Simpson, Brazil, Canada, UK (2017)
Voices from Chernobyl | Pol Cruchten, Luxembourg (2016)
Sea of Life | Julia Barnes , Canada (2017)

| Experimental shorts (Sensory Environments)

Le Pays Devaste | Emmanuel Lefrant, France (2015)
Lost Winds | Caryn Cline, USA (2017)
Kaltes Tal | Johannes Krell & Florian Fischer, Germany (2016)
Heaven | Isamu Hirabayashi, Japan (2016)
Turtles are Always Home | Rawane Nassif, Canada, Lebanon (2017)
Proxima B | Giulia Grossman, France (2017)

| International shorts

A Film, Reclaimed | Ana Vaz, Tristan Bera, Brazil (2015)
Commodity City | Jessica Kingdon, USA, China (2016)
Cycologic | Emilia Stålhammar, Sweden, Uganda (2016)
Digital Immigrants | Dennis Stauffer, Switzerland (2016)
Refugees | David Rodríguez Muñiz, Spain (2016)
Trash | Juan Silva, Spain (2016)
Vanishing Point | Jukka Silokunnas, Finland (2017)
You Are Not the Strongest | Emilio Yebra, Spain (2016)

| VR

Melting Ice | Danfung Dennis, Greenland, USA (2017)
Under the Canopy | Patrick Meegan, USA (2017)
Under a Cracked Sky | Graham Roberts, USA (2017)

| Australian shorts

Every feature at EFFA in 2017 had a prelude of an Australian short. 

Junk Food | Angus Ware, Australia (2017)
No Pain, No Train | Shing Hei Ho, Australia (2017)
Lake Victoria: An Ecosystem in Turmoil | Benk Binks, Australia (2017)
Plantasia | Georgia Quinn, Australia (2016)
Rangers Past and Present | Chris Fitzpatrick, Australia (2016)
Lost Paradise | Alice Stephens, Australia (2016)
Person of the Forest | Emily O'Connell, Australia (2016)
Looking After Our Food | Mark Pearce, Australia (2016)
One Tree Hill | Elle Marsh , Australia (2017)
T.R.A.C.C | Nelli Huié, Australia (2016)
L'estoc | Bessie Byrne & Otoxo Productions, Australia (2017)
They Come Home | Rowens Potts, Australia (2017)
The Embodied Water of Milk | Mark Newbound, Australia (2017)
Lullaby for Mother and Child | Emma Lorie, Australia (2017)

EFFA ’16

26 Sep - 26 Oct 2016
ACMI, Grub Fitzroy, Federation Square, Docklands Park - Melbourne; Civic Square, Palace Electric, Rond Terraces Park - Canberra; New Farm Cinema - Brisbane; Palace; Chauvel Cinema - Sydney; The Mercury - Adelaide

| Features

When Two Worlds Collide | Heidi Brandenburg & Mathew Orzel, Peru (2016)
Indian Point | Ivy Meeropol, USA (2015)
Sonic Sea | Michelle Dougherty & Daniel Hinerfeld, USA (2016)
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise | Mark Cousins, UK (2015)
Company Town | Natalie Kottke & Erica Sardarian, USA (2016)
Behemoth | Liang Zhao, China (2015)
Zero | Gyula Nemes, Hungary (2015)
Sustainable | Matt Wechsler, USA (2016)
Tunnel Vision | Ivan Hexter, Australia (2016)
Time to Choose | Charles Ferguson, USA (2015)
Daughter of the Lake | Ernesto Cabellos, Peru (2015)
The Living Fire | Ostap Kostyuk, Ukraine (2015)
Bugs on the Menu | Ian Toews, Canada (2016)
The Man Who Can't Stop | Michael Rubbo, Australia (1973)
Night Parrot Stories | Robert Nugent, Australia (2016)
Death by Design | Sue Williams, USA/China (2016)
The Islands and the Whales | Mike Day, UK/Denmark (2016)
Seed: the untold story | Jon Betz & Taggart Siegel, USA (2016)

| Australian shorts

The Great Forest | Marli Lopez-Hope, Australia
Restoring Earth | Danielle Ryan and James Sherwood, Australia
Under Skin, In Blood | Larissa Behrendt, Australia
Walking for Country | Reza Nezamdoust, Australia
Maratus | Simon Cunich, Australia
Their Land | Simon Bischoff, Australia
Bobby Brown Homelands | Kim Mavromatis and Quenten Agius, Australia
Sweat | Rod Rathjen, Australia

| Experimental shorts

Celestial Object | Benjamin Balcom, USA
Vacant | Elle Marsh, Australia,
Fossil Lights | Lise Fischer, France
The Art of Flying | Jan van Ijken, The Netherlands
Rhizome | Boris Labbe, France
Currents and Waves | Jan Hendrik Brüggemeier & Hugh Davies, Australia
A.D.A.M | Vladislav Knezevic, Croatia
Rare Earthenware | Toby Smith, UK

EFFA ’15

3 - 20 Sep 2015
Planetarium, LOOP Bar, Palace Kino - Melbourne
Palace Electric - Canberra
Village Cinemas - Hobart

Planetary | Guy Reid, USA (2015)
Containment | Peter Gallison, USA/Japan (2015)
ThuleTuvalu | Mathias Von Gunten, Switzerland (2014)
Just Eat It | Canada, Grant Baldwin (2014)
Black Ice | Russia, Maarten Van Rouveroy (2014)
Defendant 5 | Australia, Heidi Douglas (2014)
Tarkine in Motion | Australia, Daniel Broun (2015)
Bikes vs Cars | Sweden, Fredrik Gertten (2015)
Field Biologist | USA, Jared Flesher (2015)
Black Hole | Australia, João Dujon Pereira (2015)
The True Cost | USA, Andrew Morgan (2015)
Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth | Germany, Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Eric Black & Frauke Sandig (2015)
Aim High in Creation! | Australia, Anna Broinowski (2013)
Coral: Rekindling Venus | Australia, Lynette Wallworth (2013)
Good Things Await | Norway, Phie Ambo (2015)
All the Time in the World | Canada, Suzanne Crocker (2014)
Sailing a Sinking Sea | Thailand, USA, Burma, Olivia Wyatt  (2015)
Banking Nature | Denis Delestrac and Sandrine Feydel, France (2014)
Bring the Sun Home | Chiara Andrich and Giovanni Pellegrini, Italy (2013)
The Man from Coxs River | Russell Kilbey, Australia (2014)
On a River in Ireland | Ireland, John Murray (2014)
Landfill Harmonic | Paraguay, Norway, Brazil, USA, Graham Townsley and Brad Allgood (2015)

EFFM ’14

4 - 12 Sep 2014
Palace Kino and IMAX - Melbourne

Iriria Nina Tierra | Carmelo Camilli, Italy (2014)
Gasland II | Josh Fox, USA (2013)
Damnation | Travis Rummel & Ben Knight, USA (2013)
Planet RE:think | Eskil Hardt, Denmark/India (2012)
Once Upon a Forest | Luc Jacquet, France (2013)
Angel Azul | Marcelina Cravat-Overway, Mexico (2013)
Journey to the South Pacific | Stephen Judson & Greg Macgillivray, USA (2013)
Gringo Trails | Pegi Vail, USA (2013)
North of the Sun | Jorn Nyseth Ranum & Inge Wegge, Norway (2013)
The Human Experiment | Don Hardy & Dana Nachman, USA (2013)
Slow Food Story | Stefano Sardo, Italy (2013)
Tokyo Waka | John Haptas & Kristine Samuelson, USA (2012)
Ringbalin | Julia De Roeper, Jocelyn Pederick, Ali Sanderson, Ben Pederick & Sue Maslin, Australia (2013) 
The Weather War | Lars Bergstrom & Mats Bigert, Sweden (2012)
Wrenched | ML Lincoln, USA (2014)

EFFM ’13

5 - 13 Sep 2013
Palace Kino - Melbourne

Sand Wars | Denis Delestrac, Germany (2013)
Shored Up | Ben Kalina, USA (2013)
The Fifth Season | Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, Belgium, Netherlands and France (2013)
The Earth Wins | Jerry Grayson, Australia (2013)
The Fruit Hunters | Yung Chang, Canada (2012)
The Kids | Australia (2013)
Wadi Wadi | Australia (2013)
Hidden Valley | Jessi Boylan, Australia (2013)
Arekara | Seto Momoko, Japan (2013)
Atomic States of America | Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce, USA (2012)
Bidder 70 | Beth and George Gage, USA (2012)
Elemental | Gayatri Roshan, USA (2012)
F*ck For Forest | Michal Marczak, Poland (2012)
GMO OMG  | Jeremy Seifert, USA (2013)
Gold Fever | J. T. Haines, Tommy Haines and Andrew Sherburne, USA (2013)
Heritage Fight | Eugenie Dumont, France (2012)
Lost Rivers | Caroline Bacle, Canada (2012)
Mining the Truth | Emma Mezzatesta, Australia (2013)
More than Honey | Markus Imhoof, Germany, Switzerland and Austria (2012)
Sandgrains | Jordie Montevecchi and Gabriel Manrique, Cape Verde (2013)
The Last Ocean | Peter Young, New Zealand (2012)

EFFM ’12

4-9 Sep 2012
Palace Kino - Melbourne

Bhopali | Max Carlson, USA (2011)
Big Boys Gone Bananas | Fredrik Gertten, Sweden (2011)
Bimblebox | Michael Cusack O'Connell, Australia (2012)
Biophilic Design | Bill Finnegan, USA (2011)
The Island President | Jon Shenk, USA (2011)
Cape Spin | Robbie Gemmel and John Kirby, USA (2011)
Chasing Water | Peter McBride, USA (2011)
Chicken Karma | Christian Cordeaux and Toby Etchells, Australia (2012)
Generation Green | Briony Benjamin and Laura Noonan, Australia (2012)
Last Call at the Oasis | Jessica Yu, USA (2011)
LoveMEATender | Manu Coeman, Belgium (2010)
Mother | Christophe Fauchere, USA (2011)
Passive Passion | Charlie Hoxie, USA (2011)
Solartaxi | Erik Schmitt, Germany (2010)
Surviving Progress | Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, Canada (2011)
Sushi | Mark Hall, USA (2012)

EFFM ’11

11-16 Oct 2011
Palace Kino - Melbourne

Dreamland | Porfinnur Gudnason and Andri Snaer Magnason, Iceland (2010)
Greenlit | Miranda Bailey, USA (2010)
Bought a Rainforest | Jacob Andren, Helena Nygren, Margarete Jangard and Fredrik Gertten, Sweden (2010)
If a Tree Falls | Marshall Curry, USA (2011)
Into Eternity | Michael Madsen and Lise Lense-Moller, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Italy (2010)
Magic Harvest | Julia de Roeper and Jeni Lee, Australia (2011)
Planeat | Shelley Lee Davies, Or Shlomi and Christo Hird, UK (2011)
Plasticized | Michael J Lutman, Australia (2011)
Play Again | Tonje Hessen Schei, Denmark, Norway and USA (2010)
The City Dark | Ian Cheney, USA (2011)
The Door | Louise Curran and Juanita Wilson, Ireland (2010)
Truck Farm | Ian Cheney, USA (2010)
Waste Not | Sophie Alstergren, Australia (2011)
Wasted Earth | Cassia Itamoto, Brazil (2011)
A World of One's Own | Yann Sinic, France (2010)
Call of Life | Monte Thompson, USA (2010)
Common Ground | Hollie Fifer, Australia (2011)
Leonid's Story | Rainer Ludwigs and Tetyana Chernyavska, Germany and Ukraine (2011)

EFFM ’10

16 - 19 Sep 2010
Palace Kino - Melbourne

A Sea Change | Barbara Ettinger, USA (2009)
Bag it | Suzan Beraza, USA (2010)
Climate Refugees | Michael Nash, USA (2010)
Dive! | Jeremy Seifert, USA (2010)
Sweet Crude | Sandy Cioffi, USA (2009)
Tapped | Stephanie Soechtig, USA (2009)
The Incident at Tower 37 | Chris Perry, USA (2009)
Vanishing of the Bees | Maryam Henein and George Langworthy, USA (2009)
What's "Organic" About Organic? | Shelley Rogers, USA (2010)