Join us for the 27th Annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival! This year's special theme is Turbulence. Events and screenings will be held on Ithaca College's campus and downtown at Cinemapolis.

Schedule of Events:

April 1, 2024:

Sustained Turbulence: FLEFF 2024 New Media Exhibition - curated online exhibition of new media art, opens April 1 and runs throughout the course of the festival (Free)

April 2, 2024:

12:00 pm: Sustained Turbulence: Panel Discussion of FLEFF 2024's New Media Exhibition - Zoom (Free)

8:15 pm: Turbulence: FLEFF 2024 Opening Concert - Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY (Free)

April 4, 2024:

7:00 pm: Conversations Across Screen Cultures: Lauren Berliner and Jaimie Baron - Zoom (Free)

April 5, 2024:

6:00 pm: 23 Mile (Mitch McCabe, USA, 2024, 78 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY With Filmmaker Q&A

8:30pm: La Syndicaliste (Jean-Paul Salomé, France, 2022, 121 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

April 6, 2024:

1:00 pm: Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Selected Shorts (various directors, USA, various years, 88 mins) - Free screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY With Filmmaker Q&A

3:30 pm: Holding Back the Tide (Emily Packer, USA, 2023, 77 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY With Filmmaker Q&A (joining us via Zoom)

6:00 pm: Out Here: A Conversation with Community Activist Christa Núñez - Free screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

8:30pm: Green Border (Agnieszka Holland, Poland, 2023, 152 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

April 7, 2024:

1:00 pm: Phil-for-Short with live musical accompaniment (Oscar Apfel, USA, 1919, 82 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY Live Music Event With Pre-Screening Introduction

3:30 pm: Toxic Lake: A Conversation with Author Tom Shevory + Upstream, Downriver (Maggie Burnette Stogner, USA, 2022, 32 mins) - Free screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY With Filmmaker Q&A (joining us via Zoom)

6:00 pm: Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics (Ben Addelman and Ziya Tong, Canada, 2024, 84 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY With Filmmaker Q&A

8:30 pm: On the Divide (Maya Cueva and Leah Galant, USA, 2022, 79 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY more details With Filmmaker Q&A

April 8, 2024:

6:00 pm: Last Things (Deborah Stratman, USA, 2023, 50 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

7:15 pm: Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing, China, 2023, 215 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

April 9, 2024:

3:30 pm: Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil, 2023, 91 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

6:00 pm: Banel & Adama (Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Sengal, 2023, 87 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

8:30 pm: Geographies of Solitude (Jacquelyn Mills, Canada, 2022, 113 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

April 10, 2024:

3:30 pm: Colette and Justin (Alan Kassandra, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2022, 89 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

6:00 pm: The Grab (Gabriela Cowperthwaite, USA, 2022, 104 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY With Post-Screening Discussion

8:30 pm: Nome (Sana Na N'Hada, Guinea-Bissau, 2023, 117 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

April 11, 2024:

3:30 pm: Last Things (Deborah Stratman, USA, 2023, 50 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

6:00 pm: Here (Bas Devos, Belgium, 2023, 85 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

8:00 pm: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An, Vietnam, 2023, 182 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

April 12, 2024:

3:30 pm: La Syndicaliste (Jean-Paul Salomé, France, 2022, 121 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

6:00 pm: Three Promises (Yousef Srouji, Palestine/Lebanon/USA, 2023, 60 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

8:30 pm: Mother with live musical accompaniment (Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet Union, 1926, 87 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY Live Music Event

April 13, 2024:

1:00 pm: Between the Sun and the Sidewalk (Helen De Michiel, USA, 2024, 75 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY With Filmmaker Q&A (joining us via Zoom)

3:30 pm: Eastern Front (Vitaly Mansky and Yevhen Titarenko, Ukraine, 2023, 98 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY With Pre-Screening Introduction

6:00 pm: Sisterhood (Nora el Hourch, France, 2023, 101 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY With Post-Screening Discussion

8:30 pm: My Heavenly City (Sen-I Yu, USA/Taiwan, 2023, 120 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY With Filmmaker Q&A

April 14, 2024:

1:00 pm: Fracking the System: Colorado's Oil and Gas Wars (Brian Hedden, USA, 2024, 93 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY With Filmmaker Q&A (joining us via Zoom)

3:30 pm: Colette and Justin (Alan Kassandra, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2022, 89 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY With Post-Screening Discussion

6:00 pm: Jon Bowermaster Selected Shorts: Climate Gardeners (USA, 2024, 20 mins) and WindShipped (USA, 2022, 40 mins) - Free screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY With Filmmaker Q&A (joining us via Zoom)

8:30 pm: Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil, 2023, 91 mins) - ticketed screening at Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY

Dates: April 1 - 14, 2024

Location:

Cinemapolis, 120 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850.
Ithaca College, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY 14850.

Ticket Prices:

Single ticket (one festival film): $10
Five-Pass (Five Festival Films): $35
All-Access Pass (All Festival Films): $125

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