Animals·Nature·Future Film Festival
Stay tuned for ANFFF 2025!
Life Resonance | Ecological Future
We are thrilled to announce the theme for ANFFF2025:
Life Resonance | Ecological Future
This year, we're expanding beyond film to become a vibrant, cross-disciplinary platform. Through cinema, visual art, music, performance, and interactive installations, we'll explore the profound connections between all life forms and our shared ecosystem.
"Life Resonance" is our commitment to amplifying visionary voices and connecting them with global audiences. By partnering with cinemas, institutions, and communities, we create a sustainable ecosystem for ecological creativity.
This year's key visual begins with a door, slowly opening to an unseen world. Snake-scale textures and ruin-like fragments evoke hidden energy, time, and memory. At the centre, deep green and the railing-like #ANFFF suggest both restraint and surging vitality. The poster becomes an experimental vision of how the future ecology may be reimagined.
Join us on this resonant journey between disciplines, between voices, and between life and the future!
ANFFF 2025
Film submissions concluded
This year's festival also boasts a remarkable international presence, with 226 films presented in 49 languages, a significant increase of 12 compared to last year. Filming locations spanned 69 countries and regions, demonstrating remarkable geographical and cultural diversity. The filmmakers also displayed a diverse background. Sixty-two of the films were debuts, highlighting the creative energy of emerging filmmakers. Fifty student projects contributed significant academic perspectives. The gender composition of the directors was relatively even, with 92 male and 91 female, with 43 directors choosing not to disclose their gender. Regarding film length, 50 films were 30 minutes or longer, while 143 short films under 30 minutes dominated the competition.
The ANFFF film competition has been held for three years now, adhering to its core principle of "presenting the inherent experiences of animals and their ecological relationships in an authentic, respectful, de-anthropomorphic, and exotic way." The 226 films from around the world not only embody diverse perspectives and profound reflections, demonstrating the immense creative potential of their creators, but also underscore the necessity and urgency of exploring multispecies coexistence. The festival's organizing committee will carefully select the shortlisted works and looks forward to engaging audiences in a deep dialogue about the interplay of humanity, nature, and life within the ecological network during subsequent screenings.