We are thrilled to announce the official selected films for the upcoming International Migration & Environmental Films Festival! From June 5-11, 2023, viewers from around the world can tune in to our virtual festival to experience an incredible lineup of films focused on migration and environmental issues.
Our festival received a large number of submissions from talented filmmakers from all corners of the globe, and after much consideration and debate, we have selected a diverse and thought-provoking array of films that we believe will captivate and inspire audiences.
Without further ado, here are the films that have been officially selected for the International Migration & Environmental Films Festival:
Title:70/30
Directed by Phie Ambo
Country of Origin: Denmark
Runtime:01:38:00
Category: Documentary
Title: A Day in the Life of Refugees
Directed by John Lippman, Arthur Rasco
Country of Origin: United States
Runtime:01:35:58
Category: Documentary
Title: A Young Crane´s Long Journey
Directed by Jouni Hiltunen
Country of Origin: Finland
Runtime:50:00
Category: Documentary
Title: Above Water
Directed by Ken Honjo, Kentaro Yoshimura
Country of Origin: United States
Runtime:26:00
Category: Documentary
Title: Absconded. Young Russians On The Run
Directed by: Anna Winzer
Country of Origin: Germany
Runtime:53:08
Category: Documentary
Title: After Nature
Directed by Esther Elmholt
Country of Origin: Denmark
Runtime:01:01:00
Category: Documentary
Title: AITA MARI
Directed by Javi Julio
Country of Origin: Spain
Runtime:01:27:00
Category: Documentary
Title: Alongside the Water – Genève and it’s Nature
Directed by Lakhdar, Hassan
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Runtime:16:02
Category: Documentary
Title:Aquamour: in search of water messengers
Directed by BARBARA ALBASIO, STEPHANE MADELIN
Country of Origin: France
Runtime:01:05:05
Category: Documentary
Title: Boneyard Alaska
Directed by Paul Andrew Lawrence
Country of Origin: United States
Runtime:01:14:00
Category: Documentary
Title: Bridging Troubled Waters
Directed by Ran Levy-Yamamori
Country of Origin: Israel
Runtime:01:20:00
Category: Documentary
Title: City of Long Stay
Directed by Caleb Johnston, Felix Meyer-Christian, Geraldine Pratt
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Runtime:46:23
Category: Documentary
Title: Coastguards
Directed by Alistair Debling
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Runtime:18:22
Category: Documentary
Title :Comme Un Arbre
Directed by Flavio Sanchez Moreno
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Runtime:37:10
Category: Documentary
Title : Unsaid
Directed by Alex Nesic
Country of Origin: Australia
Runtime:10:54
Category: Short Film
Title: Common Thread
Directed by Frank Fazzio, Martha Fazzio
Country of Origin: United States
Runtime:13:50
Category: Documentary
Title : Conserving Catchacoma
Directed by Mitch Bowmile
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:19:43
Category:Documentary
Title :Deep clean water
Directed by Kevin Rumley
Country of Origin:Switzerland
Runtime:20:00
Category:Documentary
Title :DREAMS OF DARAA
Directed by Reilly Dowd
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:01:01:55
Category:Documentary
Title :Earth Beneath a Dark Lid
Directed by Amir Muratović
Country of Origin:Slovenia
Runtime:01:28:11
Category:Documentary
Title :Earth Riot
Directed by Immo Klink
Country of Origin:United Kingdom
Runtime:22:00
Category:Documentary
Title : EVIDENCE OF US
Directed by James ‘Q’ Martin
Country of Origin: United States
Runtime:11:40
Category: Documentary
Title:Exodos
Directed by Alessandro Ingaria
Country of Origin:Italy
Runtime:01:00:20
Category:Documentary
Title:Fadia’s Tree
Directed by Sarah Beddington
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Runtime:01:22:10
Category :Documentary
Title:Fight or Flight
Directed by Davide Lemmi, Sara Manisera
Country of Origin: Italy
Runtime:28:00
Category: Documentary
Title: Following the Flow
Directed by Nicholas Allan
Country of Origin: Australia
Runtime:01:23:00
Category/Documentary
Title:Forest Stories
Directed by Ekaterina Piltenko, Olga Ramora
Country of Origin: United States
Runtime:53:16
Category: Documentary
Title :Freedom Street
Directed by Alfred Darren Pek
Country of Origin:Australia
Runtime:01:50:37
Category:Documentary
Title: Frontline
Directed by Adelaide Berardi
Country of Origin: Canada
Runtime:15:00
Category: Documentary
Title: Goodbye to All Cats
Directed by Susan Bloom, Caleigh Waldman
Country of Origin: United States
Runtime:53:34
Category: Documentary
Title: Grazed Right
Directed by Ben Hemmings
Country of Origin: Canada
Category: Documentary
Title: Heroes of the Sea
Directed by York Hovest, Katrin Eigendorf, Sabine Streich
Country of Origin: Germany
Runtime:01:12:52
Category: Documentary
Title : Hostile
Directed by Sonita Gale
Country of Origin:United Kingdom
Runtime:01:37:15
Category: Documentary
Title: In Echo All About
Directed by Nicholas Mullins
Country of Origin: United States
Runtime:30:00
Category: Documentary
Title: INVISIBLE
Directed by Marianna Kakaounaki
Country of Origin: Greece
Runtime:01:21:28
Category: Documentary
Title: Italians By The Bay
Directed by Annalisa Siagura
Country of Origin: United States
Runtime:23:25
Category: Documentary
Title: Keep Cool: Fortifying British Columbia
Directed by Ed Akselrud
Country of Origin : Canada
Runtime:30:07
Category: Documentary
Title: La Riviere
Directed by Christian Fleury
Country of Origin: Canada
Runtime:28:00
Category: Documentary
Title: Land and Flower
Directed by David Wayne Reed
Country of Origin: United States
Runtime:10:37
Category: Documentary
Title: LIVESTOCK OR DESERT
Directed by Francisco José Vaquero Robustillo
Country of Origin: Spain
Runtime:01:24:00
Category: Documentary
Title :Maka
Directed by Elia Moutamid
Country of Origin:Italy
Runtime:51:56
Category:Documentary
Title :Mekong Apocalypse
Directed by Michael Buckley
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:55:35
Title :Memories That Make Us
Directed by Martin Potter
Country of Origin:Australia
Runtime:01:10:00
Category:Documentary
Title :My heart is there, my body is here
Directed by Pedro Cruz, João Doce
Country of Origin:Portugal
Runtime:57:09
Category:Documentary
Title :My Mom’s Co-op
Directed by Ève Lamont
Country of Origin: Canada
Runtime:01:18:00
Category: Documentary
Title: My Mother, Mary
Directed by Kayko Donald
Country of Origin: United States
Runtime:23:00
Category: Documentary
Title: NEVER KEEP SILENT
Directed by Quester Devette Hannah
Country of Origin: Israel
Runtime:01:07:00
Category: Documentary
Title :On The Ridges Of Solidarity
Directed by Nora Fontaine, Florent Chardonnal
Country of Origin: France
Runtime:30:00
Category:Documentary
Title :Part of the Pack
Directed by Isabelle Groc, Mike McKinlay
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:01:22:00
Category:Documentary
Title :Pemón
Directed by Brandon Pestano
Country of Origin:United Kingdom
Runtime:15:00
Category:Documentary
Title :Power to the Youth: Street Art for Climate and Diversity
Directed by Dominique De Villiers
Country of Origin:United Kingdom
Runtime:18:13
Category:Documentary
Title :Pre-inter-view
Directed by Kinda Youssef
Country of Origin:Belgium
Runtime:21:58
Category:Documentary
Title :Preval
Directed by Mihayl Meltev
Country of Origin:Bulgaria
Runtime:01:06:54
Category:Documentary
Title :PUSHBACK
Directed by Roel Swierenga
Country of Origin:Netherlands
Runtime:2:58
Category:Documentary
Title :Beirut ’22
Directed by Patrick H. Kohl
Country of Origin:Lebanon
Runtime:33:12
Category:Documentary
Title :Aquariums: The Dark Hobby
Directed by Paula Fouce
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:55:42
Category:Documentary
Title :Women’s Africa
Directed by Mohammed Soudani
Country of Origin:Switzerland
Runtime:01:29:00
Category:Documentary
Title :Terra Fértil
Directed by Nikolai Ricardo Klewe
Country of Origin:Germany
Runtime:59:13
Category:Documentary
Title :Following the Flow
Directed by Nicholas Allan
Country of Origin:Australia
Runtime:01:23:00
Category:Documentary
Title :FINITE: The Climate of Change
Directed by Rich Felgate
Country of Origin:United Kingdom
Runtime:01:39:33
Category:Documentary
Title :Qatar in Belgium – exploitation in the heart of Europe
Directed by Pieter De Vos
Country of Origin:Belgium
Runtime:26:00
Category:Documentary
Title :Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times
Submitted by Magdalena Perzyna
Country of Origin:Canada
Category:Documentary
Title :Quest for silence
Directed by Julien Guéraud
Country of Origin:France
Country of Origin:France
Runtime:52:00
Category:Documentary
Title :Rhythms of Migration
Directed by Stephen McNally, John Wassel
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:55:33
Category:Documentary
Title :Saving Glaciers
Directed by Ciril Jazbec
Country of Origin:Slovenia
Runtime8:32
Category/Documentary
Title :Scattered People
Directed by:John Swatland
Country of Origin:Australia
Runtime:01:00:48
Category:Documentary
Title :Ser Manguezal
Directed by Eliseu Cavalcante
Country of Origin:Brazil
Runtime:15:04
Category:Documentary
Title :So, still digging?
Directed by Hugo Dayan
Country of Origin:France
Runtime:01:39:36
Category:Documentary
Title :Speck. Changed Fate
Directed by Martina Scalini
Country of Origin:Italy
Runtime:23:56
Category:Documentary
Title :Teaching nature
Directed by Lucas Barragan
Country of Origin:Belgium
Runtime:01:30:00
Category:Documentary
Title :The Challengers
Directed by Rhonda Chan Soo
Country of Origin:Trinidad and Tobago
Runtime:21:00
Category:Documentary
Title :The Crossing
Directed by Juliana Penaranda-Loftus
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:40:00
Category:Documentary
Title :The Dairy Truth
Directed by Eric Thornton
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:35:16
Category:Documentary
Title :The European pond turtle. A unique relic of Polish nature
Directed by Michał Ogrodowczyk
Country of Origin:Poland
Runtime:55:38
Category:Documentary
Title :The Golden House
Directed by William Michael Day
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:5:16
Category:Documentary
Title :THE MAN OF THE TREES
Directed by ANDREA TRIVERO
Country of Origin:Italy
Runtime:18:55
Category :Documentary
Title :The Neighborhood Storyteller
Directed by Alejandra Alcala
Country of Origin:United Arab Emirates
Runtime:49:32
Category:Documentary
Title :The Newcomers
Country of Origin:Germany
Directed by Theresa Kliem
Runtime:39:53
Category:Documentary
Title :Time and Stone
Directed by Li Yue
Country of Origin:China
Runtime:01:23:00
Category:Documentary
Title :Total Disaster
Directed by Keil Orion Troisi, Molly Gore
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:11:28
Category:Documentary
Title :Turtles of Ontario Silent Cry for Help
Directed by Egor Trushin
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:30:00
Category:Documentary
Title :Ukraine: One Life At A Time
Directed by Olesya Shyvikova, Ethan Neville
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:56:03
Category:Documentary
Title :Ushiku
Directed by Thomas Ash
Country of Origin:Japan
Runtime:01:27:00
Category:Documentary
Title :Wetlands
Directed by Andrew Dubber
Country of Origin:Portugal
Runtime:14:46
Category:Documentary
Title :Voices Without Borders
Directed by Ana Haydeé Gómez Lemus, Paula María Gómez Lemus, Reneé Seijas Zamboni
Country of Origin:Guatemala
Runtime:29:13
Category:Documentary
Title :What We Choose To Remember
Directed by Guy Rex Rodgers
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:01:33:34
Category:Documentary
Title :Why On Earth
Directed by Katie Cleary
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:01:15:00
Category:Documentary
Title :Without Kerosene To Berlin (Ohne Kerosin Nach Berlin)
Directed by Roy Fochtman, Moritz Böll, Maximilian Blaß
Country of Origin:Germany
Runtime:60:00
Category:Documentary
SHORT Films
Title :13 Square Meters
Directed by Kamil Bembnista, Ayham Dalal
Country of Origin:Germany
Runtime:15:19
Category:Short Film
Title :The English Teacher
Directed by Jeremy James Fokuoh
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:11:15
Category:Short Film
Title :95 Days
Directed by Leslie Streit
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:5:07
Category:Short Film
Title :Allergic – Original Music Video by Lil Idli
Directed by Sanjana Sekhar
Country of Origin:United States
Category:Short Film
Title :amser / time
Directed by Deborah Light
Country of Origin:United Kingdom
Runtime:6:24
Category:Short Film
Title :Autoritratto all’Inferno / Self-portrait in Hell
Directed by Federica Foglia
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:3:30
Category:Short Film
Title :BIRDS EYE
Directed by Mike Daniel McKinlay
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:5:17
Category:Short Film
Title :BREARTH
Directed by JULIO DEL ALAMO
Country of Origin:Spain
Runtime:2:00
Category:Short Film
Title :Castling
Directed by Nikica Cerkez
Country of Origin Bosnia and Herzegovina
Runtime:18:05
Category:Short film
Title :Earth is Never Dry
Directed by Nikola Vučinić
Country of Origin:United Kingdom
Runtime:21:18
Category:Short Film
Title :Exceptional Talent
Directed by:Rony Efrat
Country of Origin:France
Runtime:21:35
Category:Short Film
Title :Flight
Directed by Hakim Traïdia, Frank Hartman
Country of Origin:Netherlands
Runtime:14:10
Category:Short Film
Title :Goddess, Garbage & Violence
Directed by Aristoteles Chaitidis, Alkistis Kafetzi
Country of Origin:Germany
Runtime:12:19
Category:Short Film
Title :Green Nettle
Directed by Freddie Reed, Nick Lear
Country of Origin:South Africa
Runtime:2:50
Category:Short Film
Title :In a State of Change
Directed by Donal James Boyd, Frank Nieuwenhuis
Country of Origin:Iceland
Runtime:26:00
Category:Short Film
Title :Life with Bats
Directed by David Luff
Country of Origin:Australia
Runtime:6:21
Category:Short Film
Title :Manifesting the Hidden
Directed by Jessica Gomula-Kruzic
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:6:50
Category:Short Film
Title :Now!
Directed by Betsy Stern
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:1:04
Category:Short Film
Title :Our Garden
Directed by Natasha Nutkiewicz
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:9:04
Category:Short Film
Title :Our land
Directed by Loula Burnus
Country of Origin:Belgium
Runtime :19:02
Category :Short film
Title :Outside the Aquarium
Directed by Alex Mello
Country of Origin:Germany
Runtime:24:56
Category:Short Film
Title :Rise Up
Directed by Antonia Charlotte Paquin, Austin Lang
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:15:02
Category:Short Film
Title :Shoreline Socialites
Directed by Inder Nirwan
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:10:00
Category:Short Film
Title :Silverspot: The Flight To Recovery
Directed by Julia Johanos, Samantha Derrenbacher
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:16:51
Category
Short Film
Title :ZPR 359
Directed by LIAM BRANAGAN
Country of Origin:Australia
Runtime:9:12
Category:Short Film
Title :The Forest, the Punan & the Tree Dress
Directed by Vibeke Sorensen
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:7:30
Category:Short Film
Title :The Land of the Bear
Directed by Constantinos Christou
Country of Origin:Italy
Runtime:24:50
Category:Short Film
Title :The Roundabout
Directed by Carmen Tortosa
Country of Origin:Spain
Runtime:18:49
Category:Short Film
Title :The Silken City
Directed by Thomas Pickarski
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:12:58
Category:Short Film
Title :Two Kinds of Water
Directed by Dan McDougall
Country of Origin:United Kingdom
Runtime:22:29
Category:Short Film
Title :Watch The Feet
Directed by Sashko Danylenko, Laura Tufariello
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:6:08
Category:Short Film
Title When Worlds Collide
Directed by Patricia Seaton
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:7:23
Category:Short Film
Title:Who Speaks For The Butterflies?
Directed by Anny Tubbs
Country of Origin:Belgium
Runtime:17:43
Category:Short Film
Title :Ancestral Land
Directed by Gabriel Bissonnette
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:6:19
Category:Short Film
Title :【How are you, R’ra】
Country of Origin:Taiwan
Runtime:18:41
Category:Short Film
Title :Stuck
Directed by Jan Hamshoro
Country of Origin:Germany
Runtime:9:11
Category:Short Film
Poetry Films
Title : ~ songs of the butterfly and the chimes
Directed by Maria Pinn Young Chan
Country of Origin:Hong Kong
Runtime:20:00
Category:Poetry
Title :30/900
Directed by Shirin Maleki
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:8:52
Category:Poetry
Title :Awaken
Directed by Rosie O’Regan, Paul Casey
Country of Origin:Ireland
Runtime:7:23
Category:Poetry
Title :Elegy of Lost Things
Directed by Stefano Mazzotta
Country of Origin:Italy
Runtime:47:51
Category:Poetry
Title :Elements
Directed by Manel Cebrian
Country of Origin:Spain
Runtime:19:52
Category:Poetry
Title :Farsh-e-Parandeh (Flying Carpet)
Directed by Leila Honari
Country of Origin:Australia
Runtime:6:24
Category:Poetry
Title :flint, michigan ‘skinny’
Directed by Jim Hall
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:1:40
Category:Poetry
Title :Frantic Ghosts
Directed by Kent Ameneyro
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:3:04
Category:Poetry
Title :Immigrants Open Shops
Directed by:Pat Boran
Country of Origin:Ireland
Runtime:5:00
Category:Poetry
Title :LIGHT
Directed by Karla Santa Anna
Country of Origin:United States
Category:Poetry
Title :Merry
Directed by Fiona Tinwei Lam, Lara Renee Renaud, Quinn Kelly
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:1:26
Category:Poetry
Title :Neighborhood
Directed by Jack Cochran, Pamela Falkenberg
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:4:12
Category:Poetry
Title :Arrogance
Directed by Tova Beck-Friedman
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:3:04
Category:Poetry
Title :Nowhere to go but on
Directed by Janet Lees
Country of Origin:Isle of Man
Runtime:3:33
Category:Poetry
Title :Plasticnic
Directed by Fiona T Lam, Tisha Deb Pillai
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:1:16
Category:Poetry
Title :Plasticpoems
Directed by Fiona Tinwei Lam
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:2:16
Category:Poetry
Title :Such Complexity/Air & Wood
Directed by Pamela Falkenberg, Jack Cochran
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:4:44
Category:Poetry
Title Suspended Particles
Directed by Claire Rosslyn Wilson, Ross McLennan
Country of Origin:Spain
Runtime:3:04
Category:Poetry
Title :Tales of the Kosmic Monkey : Amerindia
Directed by Bastián de luka
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:53:03
Category:Poetry
Title :The answering voice
Directed by Janet Lees
Country of Origin:Isle of Man
Runtime:5:39
Category:Poetry
Title :Utility Pole
Submitted by Mary McDonald
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:2:58
Category:Poetry
Title :Ask The Water
Directed by Laura Hirch
Country of Origin:Germany
Runtime:5:26
Category:Poetry
Title :Weather Diary
Directed by Dani Salvadori
Country of Origin:United Kingdom
Runtime:1:51
Category:Poetry
Animation
Title :A Message from Migrant Workers
Directed by Cristina Cayat, Lyn Lopez, Maria Christina Anire, Jonalyn Molina, Marichel Tomines, Justyna Kabala, Tom McCaughan
Country of Origin:United Kingdom
Runtime:16:35
Category:Animation
Title :Feeling the Apocalypse
Directed by Chen Sing Yap
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:7:02
Category:Animation
Title :Loto. A jungle tale
Directed by Antonio Aracil García
Country of Origin:Peru
Runtime:6:02
Category:Animation
Title :Mothers of the World
Directed by Vaishnavi Sundar
Country of Origin:India
Runtime:16:51
Category :Animation
Title :Once a Green Planet
Submitted by Kiro Kelada
Country of Origin:Egypt
Runtime:1:00
Category:Animation
Title :Tomorrow We continue
Directed by Abdullah Ghanem
Country of Origin:Syrian Arab Republic
Runtime:12:00
Category:Animation
Title :Uprooted: An Afghan Evacuee Story
Directed by Samaritan’s Purse
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:3:12
Category:Animation
Title :We are the Earth
Directed by Zoé Rose
Country of Origin:France
Runtime:5:00
Title :Guardian of nature
Directed by NIKOLOZI INASARIDZE
Country of Origin:Georgia
Runtime:2:19
Category:Animation
Title :Frontier Friends
Directed by Adam Bourne
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:2:00
Category:Animation
Title :The Protectors of the Wood – Dreamstone Warriors
Directed by John KixMiller, Tamara Kachelmeier
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:21:47
Category:Animation
FEATURE FILMS
Title :Citizen of Moria
Directed by Jawad Mir, Ahmad Ebrahimi
Country of Origin:Canada
Runtime:01:15:00
Category:Feature Film
Title:Endlight
Directed by Robert von Wroblewsky
Country of Origin:Germany
Runtime:01:27:59
Category:Feature Film
Title :I Am Mine Alone
Directed by Richard Douglas Jensen
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:01:24:24
Category:Feature Film
Title :Letters2Maybe
Directed by Yehuda Sharim
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:01:31:47
Category:Feature Film
Title :THE FIELD OF FORGOTTEN
Directed by Komla Roger GBEKOU
Country of Origin:Togo
Category:Feature Film
Title :The Minuscules
Directed by Khristine Gillard
Country of Origin:Belgium
Runtime:02:30:00
Category:Feature Film
Title :The pool of the Nobodies
Directed by José Luis Solís Olivares
Country of Origin:Mexico
Runtime:01:21:00
Category:Feature Film
Title :The Prairie Dog That Met the President
Directed by Shandra McDonald
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:48:48
Category:Feature Film
Title :TRAVELS INSIDE FOREIGN HEADS
Directed by Antonio AMARAL
Country of Origin:France
Runtime:01:59:32
Category:Feature Film
Title :Water We Doing? The Global Mission to Clean Water
Directed by Daniel Gartzke
Country of Origin:United States
Runtime:01:06:00
Category:Feature Film
Title :Sould
Directed by Thomas Kriechhammer
Country of Origin:Austria
Runtime:40:00
Category:Docu- Drama
Title :OUR VOICES ARE FREEDOM.
Directed by Laurence DOUMIC, Jo BERANGER
Country of Origin:France
Runtime:60:00
Category:Docu- Drama
We believe that this year’s selection of films will spark important conversations about migration and environmental issues, and we’re excited to share them with a global audience.
We hope you’ll join us from June 5-11 for this inspiring virtual festival.
Stay tuned for more information on how to access the films and participate in our online events!
