Films screened at the Festival

Entry 24-793

Lions of the Skeleton Coast

Director Will and Lianne Steenkamp

Entry 24-271

The Nile Dam: A Dangerous Power Game

Director Sara Creta

Entry 24-461

Nenets vs Gas

Director Sergio Ghizzardi

Entry 24-297

Biocentrics

Director Fernanda Heinz Figueiredo & Ataliba Benaim

Finalist

Entry 24-819

Vertical Money

Director Martti Helde

Entry 24-298

Rowdy Girl

Director Jason Goldman

Finalist

Entry 24-249

Grasshopper Republic

Director Daniel McCabe

Finalist

Entry 24-423

Flowing Freely - In the River of Life

Director Uwe Müller

Finalist

Entry 24-173

Bearland

Director Henry M. Mix

Entry 24-214

This Is Our Everything

Director Frederik Subei

Entry 24-242

Defenseless Mountain

Director Mostafa Gandomkar

Entry 24-244

Dog Eater

Director Fathollah Amiri, Nima Asgari

Gladiators - Wild Coast

Director Will Benson

Entry 24-633

Secrets of the Enchanted Forests - Mountains

Director Andrew Zikking

Finalist

Entry 24-205

A Cheetah's Pride - EP2: Struggle to Survive

Director Hansa Winshaw

Finalist

Entry 24-200

The Storm - Wildlife in Wild Weather

Director Michael R. Gärtner, Robin Jähne

Finalist

Entry 24-604

Magnifica: Passive Intruder

Director Ville Koskinen

Entry 24-202

Raptors - A fistful of Daggers - EP2: Extreme Lives

Director Matt Hamilton

Entry 24-115

Water Lost and Returned

Director Radek Plihal

Entry 24-254

Winter Harvest

Director Amélie Dussault

Finalist

Entry 24-353

My Sweden - A Changing Wilderness

Director Zoltán Török

Finalist

Entry 24-672

Apple Cider Vinegar

Director Sofie Benoot

Finalist

Among the Wolves

Director Tanguy Dumortier, Olivier Larrey

Finalist

Entry 24-584

Welcome to the Forest - Mind the Gap

Director Jan Haft

Finalist

Entry 24-583

Welcome to the Forest - The Puzzle of Life

Director Jan Haft

Finalist

Entry 24-761

Oh Deer!

Director Frank Pizon

Entry 24-776

A Life Among Elephants

Director Nigel Pope

Finalist

Entry 24-55

Wild Port of Europe - Nature on the Edge

Director Willem Berents

Entry 24-324

Axe

Director Volodymyr Bakum

Entry 24-714

The Island of the Giant Mothers

Director Carlos Pérez Romero

Entry 24-66

Piblokto

Director Anastasia Shubina, Timofey Glinin

Entry 24-818

At The Water´s Edge

Director Mirjam Matiisen

Entry 24-121

Savage Beauty - The World's greatest Light Installation

Director Janne Tanskanen

Entry 24-135

The World According to My Dad

Director Marta Kovářová

Finalist

Entry 24-128

Operation Saimaa Seal

Director Petteri Saario

Stick Together

Director Felix Maria Bühler

Entry 24-617

Of Children and Trees

Director Natalie Pfister

Finalist

Entry 24-187

Vietnam´s Mysterious North

Director Heike Grebe, Johannes Berger, Michael Riegler, Stephan Krasser

Finalist

Entry 24-39

The Crane Dance

Director Maxence Lamoureux

Finalist

Entry 24-104

Namibia's Natural Wonders - Little Heroes, big Hunters

Director Jens Westphalen / Thoralf Grospitz

Finalist

Entry 24-379

Parents in the Wild - Mating Games and Birth Days

Director Annette Scheurich & Moritz Mayerle

Entry 24-80

Guardians of The Houm Tree

Director Mohsen Bakhtyar

Entry 24-15

Rhino Man

Director John Jurko II, Matt Lindenberg, Daniel Roberts

Finalist

Entry 24-179

A Call from the Wild

Director Asgeir Helgestad

Finalist

Entry 24-169

Unwavering

Director Chris Schmid

Entry 24-365

The Researcher

Director Paolo Casalis

Finalist

Entry 24-147

La Macchina Fissa - Clark's Garden

Director Emilio Neri Tremolada

Entry 23-1111

The Forest Maker

Director Volker Schlöndorff

Finalist

Entry 23-738

A Butterfly´s Tale

Director Jan Haft

Entry 23-392

Chasing the Rains (Ep 1 - The Fickle River)

Director Nigel Pope

Entry 23-1217

The Slumber of Soomaa

Director Jevgeni Zavadski

Finalist

Entry 23-660

A White Dream

Director Mathieu Le Lay

Finalist

Entry 23-550

Elusive Landscapes

Director Sulev Keedus

Entry 23-894

Planet Killers: The Prince of Carbon

Director Martin Boudot

Finalist

Entry 23-588

Cactus Hotel

Director Yann Sochaczewski

Finalist

Entry 23-850

The Raven's Tale

Director Michael Schlamberger

Entry 23-733

Natura Europa - The Return of the Aurochs

Director Michael Schlamberger

Finalist

Entry 23-345

The secret Life of Seals

Director Johan Candert

Finalist

Entry 23-540

Return of the White-tailed Eagle

Director Jouni Hiltunen

Entry 23-344

Chasing Walrus (With A Stubborn Photographer)

Director Simon Stanford

Entry 23-517

Drops Give Life

Director Farshi Azari

Entry 23-818

The Memory of Life

Director Juhani Haukka

Entry 23-1094

Tending the Garden

Director Claire Weissbluth & Jesse Dodd

Entry 23-739

What is wilderness?

Director Jan Haft

Finalist

Entry 23-1115

Mongolia, Valley of the Bears

Director Hamid Sardar

Finalist

Entry 23-525

China's Wild Empire - Tibetan Antelope: The Mysterious Migration

Director Pascal Cardeilhac

Entry 23-444

Wild Oman: Wonder of Arabia

Director Stefania Müller

Entry 23-69

Tangled In The Tides

Director Barend van der Watt

Finalist

Entry 23-68

A Hard Nut To Crack

Director Barend Van der Watt

Entry 23-1035

Feathers or Glamour

Director Eva Kübar

Entry 23-786

American Ocelot

Director Ben Masters

Entry 23-275

Wild Argentina - Land of Survivors

Director Christian Baumeister

Entry 23-276

Wild Argentina - Land of Water

Director Christian Baumeister

Entry 23-685

Where do frogs come from?

Director Hannes Rohtma

Finalist

Entry 23-12

The Illusion of Abundance

Director Erika Gonzalez Ramirez & Matthieu Lietaert

Entry 23-865

Cucurrucu - The Pigeon Rescuers

Director Lâm, Nguyễn Tiến

Entry 23-1180

Sleepless Birds

Director Tom Claudon, Dana Melaver

Finalist

Entry 23-698

The Wild West - A Prairie Dog's Life

Director Philippe Moreau

Entry 23-545

My Wild Cats - European Cats

Director Bertrand Loyer

Entry 23-808

In the Garden

Director Natacha Boutkevitch

Finalist

Entry 23-836

New Pigs on the Block

Director Jimmy Kets

Entry 23-106

The Powerful Owl

Director David Luff

Entry 23-296

Beasts of the Big Blue (Ep 1 - Tini Heke)

Director Judith Curran

Entry 23-486

Bucolic

Director Karol Pałka

Entry 23-1075

The Dark Side of Bright Nights

Director Tim Visser, Sander van Iersel

Entry 23-838

Jeseníky - A Mountain Wilderness Kingdom

Director Marián Polák

Entry 23-356

Gentle Mountain - The Foothills Of The Alps

Director Patrick Centurioni

Entry 23-321

The Battle For The Birds, In The Skies Of Israel

Director Cédric Chambin

Entry 23-147

Poland's Wild East

Director Jens Westphalen & Thoralf Grospitz

Finalist

Entry 23-18

Geamăna

Director Matthäus Wörle

Entry 23-113

Return of the Vultures

Director Emmanuel Rondeau

Finalist

Entry 23-150

A Rhino's Life

Director Rosie Koch and Roland Gockel

Finalist

Entry 23-142

Return of the Little Tern Seabird on the Floating Artificial Sand Islands

Director Dong-Man SHIN, Sang-Seop YEOM

Finalist

Entry 23-273

Nature's Magic Moments

Director Christian Baumeister

Finalist

Entry 23-656

Out There: A National Parks Story

Director Brendan Hall

Finalist

Entry 23-82

Wolf

Director Cees van Kempen

Finalist

Entry 23-295

Woodpeckers: The Hole Story

Director Ann Johnson Prum

Finalist

Entry 22-776

Legacy of a Legend

Director Juha Metso

Entry 22-916

Water Celery

Director Yu So-young

Entry 22-734

Nest

Director Miguel Angel Baratta

Entry 22-708

Sounds of the South

Director Hubert Neufeld

Entry 22-638

Critical Kingdoms - Stories of Hope - Ep 2: Indonesia

Director Max Serio, Radek Houska

Entry 22-625

The Song of a Little Owl

Director Mehdi Nourmohammadi

Entry 22-905

Quest for Silence

Director Julien Guéraud

Entry 22-426

The Price of seeing a Show

Director Mehdi Ghazanfari

Entry 22-424

Young Guns

Director Andreas Thaulow

Entry 22-674

Shepherds of the Earth

Director Iiris Härmä

Entry 22-395

Reaching the Birds

Director David Krøyer

Entry 22-128

Extremadura. A Natural Paradise in Europe

Director Carlos Pérez Romero

Entry 22-69

Amuka - The Awakening

Director Antonio Spanò

Entry 22-47

Preserve

Director Hadis Janbozorgi

Entry 22-979

Colonies in Conflict

Director Rajani Mani

Entry 22-632

Eyes of the Orangutan

Director Chris Scarffe, Will Foster-Grundy

Entry 22-270

12th Hour

Director Susan Kucera

Entry 22-12

Hog Haven

Director Christopher Beeson

Entry 22-669

Osprey: Sea Raptor

Director Jacob Steinberg

Entry 22-642

Secrets in the Scat

Director Ruth Berry

Entry 22-857

Ijswee

Director Okki Poortvliet

Entry 22-796

Kingdom of Fish Ep 3 - The Sea

Director Björn Tjärnberg

Entry 22-795

Kingdom of Fish Ep 2 - The Lake

Director Björn Tjärnberg

Entry 22-794

Kingdom of Fish Ep 1 - The River

Director Björn Tjärnberg

Entry 22-543

Goodbye to All Cats

Director Susan Bloom, Caleigh Waldman

Entry 22-203

FoodForest

Director Louis De Jaeger

Entry 22-578

Ode to Nature

Director Jan Haft

Entry 22-412

Journey of the Pelicans - an Australian Outback Mystery

Director Annette Scheurich

Entry 22-633

Cher and the loneliest Elephant

Director Jonathan Finnigan

Entry 22-281

Twitchers

Director Baptiste Magontier

Finalist

Entry 22-409

Beyond The White

Director Evgeny Kalachikhin

Entry 22-17

Bright Green Lies

Director Julia Barnes

Entry 22-96

Mata

Director Ingrid Fadnes & Fabio Nascimento

Entry 22-1110

Africa, GMOs and The Gates Foundation

Director Jean-Baptiste Renaud

Entry 22-1109

Food Fraud: An Organised Crime

Director Bénédicte Delfaut

Entry 22-1107

USA: Climate Wars

Director Ibar Aibar & Fanny Chauvin

Entry 22-1104

Atomic Hope - Inside The Pro-Nuclear Movement

Director Frankie Fenton

Entry 22-1103

Return Sasyk to the Sea

Director Andrea Odezynska

Entry 22-1112

Uprooted: The Olympic Tribe

Director Balint Revesz

Finalist

Entry 22-428

Black and White Big Cats

Director Mathieu Le Lay

Finalist

Entry 22-639

Born in the Rockies Ep 1: First Steps

Director Joseph Pontecorvo

Finalist

Entry 22-641

Hippo King

Director Will & Lianne Steenkamp

Finalist

Entry 22-770

Pantanal - Brazil's Natural Miracle

Director Christoph and Almut Hauschild

Finalist

Entry 22-36

Chickens, Virus and Us

Director Filip Remunda

Finalist

Entry 22-387

Neighbourhood of Infinity

Director Mark Aitken

Finalist

Entry 22-895

Waves Beneath The Water

Director Arthur de Bruin

Finalist

Entry 22-624

Houbara

Director Fathollah Amiri, Nima Asgari

Finalist

Entry 22-943

Lagunaria

Director Giovanni Pellegrini

Finalist

Entry 22-798

Life of a Mutt

Director Tanja Brzaković

Finalist

Entry 22-813

The Door was Open

Director Olivier Marin

Finalist

Entry 22-809

Mamody, the last Baobab Digger

Director Cyrille Cornu

Finalist

Entry 22-106

About the Forest

Director Peter Magnusson

Finalist

Entry 22-248

Bee Wild!

Director Jan Haft

Finalist

Entry 22-1115

The Great Swamp

Director Remek Meel

Finalist

Entry 22-1105

Pleistocene Park

Director Luke Griswold-Tergis

Finalist

Entry 22-1114

Lumi and Leenu

Director Mirjam Matiisen

Finalist

Entry 22-473

The Elephant & the Termite

Director Mark Deeble, Victoria Stone

Finalist

Entry 22-637

Wolverine - One Tough Mother

Director Alexander Sletten

Finalist

Entry 22-568

Raccoons, survival Warriors

Director Emma Baus

Finalist

Entry 22-422

Superbirds - The Secret Life Of Tits

Director Yann Sochaczewski, Marlen Hundertmark

Entry 22-1113

Duty of Care - The Climate Trials

Director Nic Balthazar

Entry 21-945

Confluence

Director Eva Otsing

Entry 21-77

On thin Ice

Director Henry M. Mix

Entry 21-185

Of Mosquitoes and Men

Director Madis Ligema

Entry 21-875

The Whale from Lorino

Director Maciej Cuske

Entry 21-290

Hempman vs. the State

Director Sampsa Huttunen

Entry 21-944

Green Warriors: Cursed Uranium

Director Martin Boudot

Entry 21-908

Snow Leopards and Friends

Director Xi Zhinong, Zi Ding, Da Jie, Qu Peng

Entry 21-907

Nature’s Networks

Director Susanne Lummer, Andreas Ribarits

Entry 21-906

Rare Survivors - China's Iconic Wildlife

Entry 21-904

The Alps EP 1: The High Life

Director Otmar Penker

Entry 21-900

America´s Arctic - A Refuge Imperiled

Director Martin Mészáros

Entry 21-899

Corona - The Pandemic and the Pangolin

Entry 21-898

Dehesa - Forest of the Iberian Lynx EP 2

Director Joaquín Gutierrez Acha

Entry 21-897

Dehesa - Forest of the Iberian Lynx EP 1

Director Joaquín Gutierrez Acha

Entry 21-643

Cows on the Roof

Director Aldo Gugolz

Entry 21-131

The Wind. A Documentary Thriller

Director Michał Bielawski

Entry 21-502

Buromsky Island

Director Olga Stefanova

Entry 21-800

Monkeys and more. Our closest Relatives

Director Oriol Cervera Subirats, Juan Luis Santos, Juan Antonio Rodríguez Llano

Entry 21-215

Echoes of the Ice Age

Director Jan Haft

Entry 21-222

Remedy

Director Jakub Šipoš

Entry 21-912

Looking for Bears

Director Mahdi Chalani

Entry 21-576

TripleF***

Director Simona Theoharova

Entry 21-496

What the Trees whisper about

Director Rita Takács

Entry 21-808

Bleeding Ice: Antarctica, The Final Chapter

Director Willem van den Heever

Entry 21-379

Darwin in Times Square - The Science of Urban Evolution

Director Martin Gronemeyer, Michaela Kirst

Entry 21-679

Stolen Fish

Director Gosia Juszczak

Entry 21-661

Lost - Birds of the Countryside

Director Heiko De Groot

Entry 21-151

A Hundred Year Journey

Director Antti Tuomas Seppänen

Entry 21-735

The Magical Four - Our Seasons

Director Annette Scheurich, Alexandra Sailer, Steffen Sailer, Klaus Scheurich

Entry 21-348

Entangled

Director David Abel

Entry 21-176

Accidental Wilderness - Europe's Everglades

Director Christian Baumeister, Max Meis

Entry 21-9

Return to the lost Eden

Director Adriano Zecca

Entry 21-883

Dunes of Nõva

Director Aare Baumer

Entry 21-346

Salto is the King

Director Pavol Barabas

Entry 21-294

The Frozen Kingdom of the Snow Leopard

Director Frédéric Larrey

Entry 21-942

Fast Fashion: The Real Price of Low-Cost Fashion

Director Gilles Bovon, Edouard Perrin

Entry 21-943

Green Warriors: Soil Threat

Director Martin Boudot

Entry 21-727

They Came to Stay - Our Alien Animal Neighbors: Rheas

Director Herbert Ostwald

Entry 21-298

After the Fires

Director Cian O'Clery

Entry 21-728

They Came to Stay - Our Alien Animal Neighbors: Coypus

Director Herbert Ostwald

Finalist

Entry 21-873

The Shamans´ Nightmare

Director Natalie Halla

Finalist

Entry 21-896

Pumas - Legends of the Ice Mountains EP 2: Rebirth

Director Dereck Joubert, Beverly Joubert

Finalist

Entry 21-895

Pumas - Legends of the Ice Mountains EP 1: Birth

Director Dereck Joubert, Beverly Joubert

Finalist

Entry 21-833

Feast of the Killer Whales

Director Alexis Barbier-Bouvet, Didier Noirot

Finalist

Entry 21-801

The Otter, a Legend returns

Director Hilco Jansma

Finalist

Entry 21-739

Wolves at the Borders

Director Martin Páv

Finalist

Entry 21-619

Animals

Director Jonas Spriestersbach

Finalist

Entry 21-572

Rebirth

Director Chia-Lung Chan

Finalist

Entry 21-412

Earth: Muted

Director Mikael Kristersson, Åsa Ekman, Oscar Hedin

Finalist

Entry 21-397

Worlds of Water. 3 Episodes

Director Petteri Saario

Finalist

Entry 21-344

A young Crane´s long Journey

Director Jouni Hiltunen

Finalist

Entry 21-333

Overland

Director Elisabeth Haviland James, Revere La Noue

Finalist

Entry 21-284

Leopard Legacy

Director Will Steenkamp, Lianne Steenkamp

Finalist

Entry 21-173

When the Snow melts down

Director Aleksei Golovkov

Finalist

Entry 21-170

Under Control

Director Ville Koskinen

Finalist

Entry 21-207

Wild Horses - A Tale from the Puszta

Director Zoltan Török

Finalist

Entry 21-825

My Dragon River

Director Dagmar Hilfert-Rüppell, Georg Rüppell

Entry 21-722

Hotter than Climate Change

Director Adrien Bordone, Bastien Bösiger

Finalist

Entry 21-909

What a colorful World

Finalist

Entry 21-216

Nature´s Nurseries

Director Jan Haft

Finalist

Entry 21-901

Santa´s wild Home

Director Matt Hamilton

Entry 20-785

Wombstone / Special Screening

Director Kersti Uibo

Finalist

Entry 20-784

Backwoodsman / World Premiere

Director Maaja Hallik

Entry 20-783

Banquet of the Beasts – The Cycle of Life

Director Daniela Pulverer, Boris Raim

Finalist

Entry 20-782

Bear-Like

Director Roman Droux

Entry 20-778

Gan Fód

Director Dermot O'Hanlon

Finalist

Entry 20-777

The Beauty of Being

Director Jaan Tootsen

Entry 20-768

America's Wild Seasons: Spring

Director Jeff Morales

Finalist

Entry 20-759

Lions & Hyenas: Owners of Death, Guardians of Life

Director Nacho Ruiz

Entry 20-749

Aether

Director Ruken Tekeş

Entry 20-737

Green Blood

Director Arthur Bouvart, Jules Giraudat & Alexis Marant

Entry 20-729

Days of Summer

Director Annette Scheurich, Alexandra & Steffen Sailer

Finalist

Entry 20-710

A Song for Love - An Ape with an App / Opening Film

Director Mark Fletcher

Entry 20-708

Under Cover - Every Body needs a Coat

Director Ivo Filatsch

Entry 20-707

Seasons in the Wild - Episode 2: Autumn

Director Martin Mészáros

Entry 20-706

Seasons in the Wild - Episode 1: Spring

Director Martin Mészáros

Entry 20-704

Taiwan Grass Owls

Director Shou-i Yang, Chun-ming Wan

Entry 20-610

A City without Water

Director Dorothe Dörholt & Antje Christ

Entry 20-600

Elementa

Director Richard Sidey

Entry 20-594

Acid Forest

Director Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė

Entry 20-530

Food For Change

Director Benoît Bringer

Entry 20-529

The People vs. Agent Orange

Director Kate Taverna & Alan Adelson

Entry 20-527

Seeds of Profit

Director Linda Bendali

Entry 20-517

Wild Portugal

Director Christian Baumeister

Finalist

Entry 20-509

Picture of His Life

Director Yonatan Nir, Dani Menkin

Entry 20-507

Wild Innsbruck - Between Culture and Alpine Nature

Director Patrick Centurioni

Entry 20-475

Me & My Tuk-tuk - Searching for the Elephants of Paradise

Director Stefan Quinth

Entry 20-470

Island of the Hippos

Director Carlos Pérez Romero

Entry 20-417

One Word

Director Viviana Uriona

Entry 20-389

To Raise and Rise

Director Oliver Dickinson

Entry 20-328

Oso, Wild vision from Asturias

Director Vincent Munier, Laurent Joffrion

Entry 20-327

Ever Slow Green - Re-afforestation in Auroville

Director Christoph Pohl

Finalist

Entry 20-288

Mt. Suswa - Life in a Volcano

Director Oliver Goetzl

Entry 20-285

Wild Cats Of India: Masters of Disguise

Director Sandesh Kadur

Entry 20-257

Heartwood

Director Stefano Petroni

Entry 20-237

Wild Forests, Wild Crags - In Search of the Phantom

Director Szabolcs Mosonyi

Entry 20-220

A Fistful of Rubbish

Director David Regos

Entry 20-135

Wild Shetland: Scotland’s Viking Frontier

Director Jackie Savery

Entry 20-128

Lamalera

Director Karsten Tadie

Entry 20-118

83° Ski The North

Director Matthias Mayr

Finalist

Entry 20-113

Animus Animalis. A Story About People, Animals and Things

Director Aistė Žegulytė

Entry 20-44

Fatei And The Sea

Director Alina Rudnitskaya, Sergey Vinokurov

Entry 20-17

The Highlands

Director Andrea Zambelli, Andrea Zanoli

Finalist

Entry 20-283

Animal Image

Director Perttu Saksa

Finalist

Entry 20-37

Going Nuts - Tales from the Squirrel World

Director Yann Sochaczewski

Finalist

Entry 20-761

Frozen Islands

Director Stefania Muller

Entry 20-735

252 Days of Solitude

Director Kaidor Kahar

Finalist

Entry 20-728

Land of the Far North - Polar Day

Director Steffen and Alexandra Sailer

Finalist

Entry 20-727

Land of the Far North - Polar Night

Director Steffen and Alexandra Sailer

Finalist

Entry 20-705

Cantábria – Spain’s magical Mountains

Director Joaquin Gutierrez Acha

Entry 20-647

I Am Lion

Director Jürgen Jozefowicz

Entry 20-523

Generation Greta

Director Simon Kessler & Johan Boulanger

Entry 20-460

Wild Nights - When Animals Awake

Director Uwe Müller

Finalist

Entry 20-430

Okavango: River of Dreams

Director Dereck & Beverly Joubert

Finalist

Entry 20-356

Sockeye Salmon. Red fish

Director Dmitriy Shpilenok

Finalist

Entry 20-350

The Season, when Velvet Antlers get Ripe

Director Galina Leontieva

Finalist

Entry 20-264

Northern Wind can be Warm

Director Aleksei Golovkov

Entry 20-249

Menorca Biosphere Reserve

Director Jordi Escandell & Toni Escandell

Finalist

Entry 20-191

The Meadow - Paradise Lost

Director Jan Haft

Finalist

Entry 20-164

Nomads

Director Emiliano Ruprah

Finalist