ALT EFF returns with 80+ films, star power, and India’s first Rs 40 lakh fund for green cinema
A still from Farming The Revolution
If you’ve ever wished climate change conversations felt less like homework, December is about to deliver. The All Living Things Environmental Film Festival (ALT EFF) — India’s largest festival dedicated to cinema for change — returns with its 5th edition from December 4–14, with films that look climate change squarely in the eye.
The 10-day festival will see more than 80 films from across the world; producers like Zoya Akhtar, Kiran Rao and Dia Mirza backing major titles; and actors Richa Chadha, Randeep Hooda and Milind Soman joining as goodwill ambassadors. This year also marks a landmark leap with India’s first Rs 40 lakh film fund dedicated entirely to environmental storytelling.
Future Council is about children travelling on a bio-fuelled bus
The festival kicks off with a curtain-raiser in Mumbai on December 4, before rolling into a weekend of immersive experiences in Bengaluru. For the rest of the country, ALT EFF’s programming stretches across physical screenings, digital showcases, talks, workshops and cross-city collaborations, turning it into much more than a film festival.
We got the scoop on which films you shouldn’t miss out on.
Turtle Walker
Produced by Zoya Akhtar
In the late ’70s, naturalist Satish Bhaskar undertook a journey across India’s coastline and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to document and save sea turtle nesting grounds. The film digs into his life’s work, and asks: What happens to a species when its home disappears?
Snow Leopard Sisters is a story of survival, mentorship, and defiance
Panha
Produced by Dia Mirza
A drama about a Maharashtrian family on the brink of losing their ancestral mango farm to the Bullet Train project, told through the eyes of seven-year-old Vithu.
Humans in the Loop
Produced by Kiran Rao
This film follows Nehma, an indigenous woman in Jharkhand who becomes a data labeller training AI systems, and begins uncovering human biases coded into algorithms.
Future Council
Australia, Netherlands
Director Damon Gameau puts eight children on a biofuel-powered school bus and sends them across Europe to confront climate realities head-on.
A still from Panha
Snow Leopard Sisters
Nepal
This is a breathtaking Himalayan saga of two indigenous women — one a conservationist, and the other trying to escape a forced marriage, who trek across remote mountains tracking endangered snow leopards.
Farming the Revolution
India, France
The definitive documentary on India’s historic farmer protests of 2020, shot on-ground through lockdowns and police barricades. The film captures how protest sites turned into parallel cities where women emerged as equal political forces.
WHEN: Dec 4 (curtain raiser), Dec 13 and 14 (closing weekend)
WHERE: Multiple venues
PRICE: Rs 699 onwards
To Book: Urbanaut.app
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