The 2025 Portland EcoFilm Festival features dozens of the best new ecological films from around the world, several special presentations, community conversations with special guests, and opportunities to engage with organizations that are involved in multifaceted, broad-based ecological solutions.
Our festival season lasts several months, providing the opportunity to integrate these important films more thoroughly into the programming of the Hollywood Theatre, a beloved cultural institution.
We will announce our official selections, award winners, and more here on January 23, 2025.
The Portland EcoFilm Festival presents regional premieres of three new films by queer filmmakers about intersections of nature, ecology, disability, Indigeneity, and queerness.
The Portland EcoFilm Festival presents two new films from Latin America exploring ways that humans coexist with animals, land, family, and economy. (Approximate program running time: 84 minutes)
Features the winner of our 2025 Best Feature Film Award and Indigenous Voices selection, WAYS TO TRAVERSE A TERRITORY (FORMAS DE ATRAVESAR UN TERRITORIO)
Wonder and woe, though seemingly opposites, are deeply interconnected aspects of contemporary ecological experience. This program features new short films from around the globe, exploring the angst, awe, complexity, and joy of being in our living world.
Five new short films centering the wisdom, accomplishments, stories, and struggles of Indigenous people around the living world.
Cap off your May Day with new environmental justice films, including the winner of this year’s EcoHero Award, OUR MOVEMENT STARTS HERE, and ADIDAS OWNS THE REALITY from The Yes Men.
Four new ecological films from around the living world about different ways of being at and returning to home. This program includes two official selections from our Indigenous Voices series and the winner of our 2025 Best Conservation Film Award, WELCOME HOME.
Eight new animated ecological films from around the living world, including the winner of our 2025 Best Short Film Award, PERCEBES
Eight new short films from around the living world about humanity’s relationship with water, including four official selections in our Indigenous Voices series and a community conversation with special guests. Sponsored by the Human Access Project
In a world with so many fences, what does it mean to be free? The Portland premieres of two new films about humans, horses, buffalo, Indigeneity, and colonization. Featuring an official selection in our Indigenous Voices series, BRING THEM HOME, produced and narrated by Academy Award nominee, Lily Gladstone (RESERVATION DOGS, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON).
The Portland EcoFilm Festival is a signature program of the nonprofit Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon.
Our sustaining sponsor is the nonprofit Crag Law Center. Through a unique model of “legal aid for the environment,” Crag provides free and low-cost legal services to people who are working on the ground to protect our environment, climate and communities. Learn more and support Crag Law Center by clicking below.
