Festival 2026.
Special Topic
“Recognition: Shining a Light on the Invisible”
You can find our full programme here.
Our Jurys
Shorts-Jury
Noah Erni
Filmmaker
He is the co-founder of the animation collective Studio uuuh! in Zurich in 2020.
Sigrid Faltin
Filmmaker
She works as a book and film author and as a producer for television programmes and documentary films.
Bernward Janzing
Specialised journalist
Freelance journalist and author, specialized on renewable energies and related technical and ecological topics.
Special Topic-Jury
Sarah Moll
Freelance writer and certified documentary filmmaker,
director and producer,
Head of the children’s film festival “Coole Suppe”
Lucía Perona
Filmmaker from Argentina
Prof. Dr. Marcus Stiglegger
Professor for Film- and Media cultural studies in Regensburg and Ludwigsburg, PD at the University of Mainz
Moira Trüb
M. Sc. Environmental Governance
Expert for global health and climate change
Press material
Press notice
Festival portfolio
Our previous winners
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)
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)
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)
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)
2021
Audience award: Butenland (Director: Marc Pierschel)
Special topic award “Our Water”: One Word (Director: Viviana Uriona)
Short film award: Gajah Borneo (Director: Shervin Hess)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)