Environmental Film Festival – Melbourne’s premiere showcase of environmental cinema

Melbourne’s
premiere showcase of environmental cinema, Environmental Film Festival returns
for 2026, screening more than 20 films from around the world from Sunday 25
October to Sunday 8 November.

Presented by
Environmental Films Australia, a volunteer-run not-for-profit that’s been part
of the city’s arts landscape since 2010, the program includes feature
documentaries, shorts, experimental cine-art, talks, events and the annual
festival litter-pick.

On the 20th
anniversary of Al Gore’s urgent warning in An Inconvenient Truth, this
year’s theme is getting serious, with a simple yet stirring call out: Who
Cares?

And the program
responds with a Salena Godden-inspired punch: pessimism is for lightweights.

Audiences can
expect rousing stories of communities taking stands against unbeatable odds,
eye-opening reflections on the power of care and kindness, intimate accounts of
responsibility, conservation and custodianship, and heart-tugging animations to
remind us of our interconnection with flora, fauna and the more-than-human
world.

As always, the
festival goes beyond the screen.

Events include
an activism-focused panel discussion asking ‘Is it a Crime to Care?’, a special
event at Footscray’s Trocadero Projects exploring how ‘The Future Cares’ with
the filmmakers behind 7 Seasons, and an invitation to say ‘I Don’t Care
about the Cup’ by taking part it in a community litterpick on the Melbourne Cup
Public Holiday, with multicultural queer environmental group Lalala Outpick.

On Sunday 8
November, the day after the festival, the team will run a special session of
their monthly ‘Enviro Film Club’ spotlighting the Jake Gyllenhaal 2004 disaster
movie The Day After Tomorrow.

The program
will take place at Palace Kino, Champagne Video Bar, Trocadero Projects and
Queen Victoria Women’s Centre across 25 October – 8 November.

Check out the
full listings at: environmentalfilms.org.au/eff26

Passes

Full Festival:
$116

Palace Kino
Pass: $66

Queen Victoria
Women’s Centre Pass: $36

Champagne Video
Pass: $36

Single Sessions

Palace Kino: $26

Champagne Video
Bar: $16

Queen Victoria
Women’s Centre: $16

‘We EFF’ing
Care’ Party: $6

Trocadero: Pay
As You Feel Fundraiser for Just Futures Collab – the Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Island-led giving circle activating resources for climate justice

Litterpick:
Free

Environmental
Film Festival 2026 is brought to you by Environmental Films Australia, in
partnership with Queen Victoria Women’s Centre and Ironbark Films, and is
supported by Science Gallery, Trocadero Projects, Palace Kino and Champagne
Video Bar.