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Sustainable Future Award

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The Sustainable Future Award amplifies voices for environmental progress.

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The Sustainable Future Award, with a cash prize of $40,000, is the largest environmental film prize in the world. It is made possible through philanthropic support from a syndicate of passionate climate activists. The award recognises a narrative or documentary film of any length that deepens our knowledge and awareness of the impact of the global climate emergency

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The End
Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon star in Joshua Oppenheimer’s (The Act of Killing, SFF 2013) daring narrative debut – a post-apocalyptic musical about the last family on earth.
Documentary
Floodland
A deeply moving story of love and loss set in the northern NSW town of Lismore, Australia’s most flooded postcode and site of the nation’s most costly climate disaster.
How Deep Is Your Love
In this awe-inspiring and visually rich documentary, scientists race to explore the ocean floor – one of Earth’s last frontiers – before deep sea-mining destroys it forever.
Documentary
Lowland Kids
With their island home sinking into the sea, America’s first climate refugees must make an impossible decision. A raw, redolent doc produced by Darren Aronofsky, CPH:DOX 2025.
Documentary
Nechako – It Will Be A Big River Again
Memory and resistance flow through this meditative, visually striking doc chronicling Indigenous peoples’ 70-year struggle to restore Canada’s Nechako River and a way of life.
Documentary
Only on Earth
Hypnotic scenes from a horrific summer wildfire season in Galicia become a haunting, urgent illustration of the interdependency between humans and animals. Berlinale 2025.
Short
Rolly: A Story Of My Father
This tender, meditative portrait of ancestral wisdom and resilience follows one man’s life-long stewardship of land, tradition, and identity in the face of a changing climate. Screens with Nechako - It Will Be A Big River
Documentary
The Wolves Always Come At Night
A Mongolian family must leave their nomadic desert life after a devastating storm in Gabrielle Brady’s stunning, Toronto-selected follow-up to her multi-award-winning debut.
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