Festival
We’ll be back soon
Unser Festival findet jährlich in der zweiten Novemberwoche statt. Während ihr auf das nächste Festival wartet, findet ihr hier Recaps zu den Festivals der vergangenen Jahre sowie eine Liste unserer Preisträger:innen.
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Festival recap 2025 – thanks for joining us!
As in (almost) every year since 2014, the Greenmotions Filmfestival once again opened its doors to cinema and sustainability enthusiasts at Kommunales Kino at Alter Wiehrebahnhof from November 5th to 9th, 2025. This year, we have once again chosen a… Weiterlesen
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Festival Recap 2024
From 6 to 10 November 2024, the Greenmotions Film Festival once again took place at the Kommunales Kino im Alten Wiehrebahnhof in Freiburg. We showed inspiring films on various topics related to the environment and sustainability. In addition to many… Weiterlesen
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Festival Recap 2023
From 8th to 12th November 2023, the ninth edition of the Greenmotions Film Festival took place at Kommunales Kino in Alter Wiehrebahnhof in Freiburg. We showed inspiring films on various topics related to the environment and sustainability. In addition to… Weiterlesen
Previous festival recaps
Our winners
Greenmotions 2025
Audience award: Wer wenn nicht du (Regie: Rosa-Lena Lange & Charlotte Weinreich)
Special Topic “Closing the Loop – Living within planetary boundaries”: L’Arbre de l’Authenticité (Regie: Sammy Baloji)
Short film award: Picus (Regie: Frédéric Doazan)
Kids movie award: Writing Home (Regie: Eva Matejovičová)
Greenmotions 2024
Audience award: We are Guardians (Directors: Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman & Edivan Guajajara) & Where We Used to Sleep (Director: Matthäus Wörle)
Special topic award “United in Change? – Striving for a Just Transition”: Cobalt Rush (Directors: Quentin Noirfalisse & Arnaud Zajtman)
Short film award: The Man Who Mends Things (Director: Ann Farcey)
Kids movie award: Pond (Director: Lena von Döhren & Eva Rust)
Greenmotions 2023
Audience award: Fashion Reimagined (Director: Becky Hutner) & FINITE (Director: Rich Felgate)
Special topic award “Climate Justice Solutions and Perspectives from the Global South”: Threatened Tapajós (Director: Thomaz Pedro)
Short film award: The Invention of Less (Director: Noah Erni)
Kids movie award: What’s up with the sky? (Director: Irene Iborra)
Greenmotions 2022
Audience award: Die Stangenbohnenpartei (Director: Patty Schmidt)
Special topic award “Frauen – Aktivismus – Umwelt”: The Ants and the Grasshoper (Directors: Raj Patel & Zak Piper) & Mama Irene – Healer of the Andes (Directors: Elisabeth Möhlmann & Bettina Ehrhardt)
Short film award: Sad Beauty (Director: Arjan Bentrjes)
Special mention: Das Kleinod (Director: Sarah Moll)
Greenmotions 2021
Audience award: Butenland (Director: Marc Pierschel)
Special topic award “Our Water”: One Word (Director: Viviana Uronia)
Short film award: Gajah Borneo (Director: Shervin Hess)
Greenmotions 2019
Audience award: Ziemlich wilde Rinder (Director: Herbert Oswald)
Special topic award “Degrowth or Green Growth”: Le temps, la terre et nous (Directors: Annina Luginbühl & Thibaut Ras)
Short film award: Peix al Forn (Director: Guillem Mirò)
Greenmotions 2018
Audience award & Jury award for feature length movies: The Reluctant Radical (Director: Lindsey Grayzel)
Special topic award “Millenials in Motion”: Don’t frack with Denton (Director: Garrett Graham)
Short film award: El Origen (Director: José A. Campos)
Greenmotions 2017
Audience award: What are we waiting for? (Director: Marie-Monique Robin)
Jury award for feature length movies: Chasing Coral (Director: Jeff Orlowski)
Special topic award “Sustainable mobility”: Kesselrollen – Wie rollt die Stadt von morgen? (Directors: Roman Högerle & Felix Länge)
Short film award: Under the Canopy of Trees (Director: Ignat Kachan)
Greenmotions 2016
Audience award: Beyond the Red Lines (Directors: Luciano Ibarra, Lorenz Bachfischer, Laure Kervyn & Sylvain Darou)
Special topic award “Flight from Klimawandel”: How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change (Director: Josh Fox)
Short film award: Story of a Spoon (Director: Sascha Kuntze)
Greenmotions 2015
Audience award: Das Achental – Auf dem Weg in eine nachhaltige Zukunft (Director: Lorenz Knauer)
Short film award: Lucens (Director: Marcell Barelli)
Greenstorming 2014
Short film award: The Windmill Farmer (Director: Joaquín Baldwin) & Up de Bank (Director: Michael Greif)