Wildlife Conservation Film Festival 2025

Wildlife Conservation Film Festival 2025

The Wildlife Conservation Film Festival (WCFF) is a global film festival that showcases and supports independent films dedicated to the protection of wildlife and the conservation of Earth’s biodiversity through interactive and engaging events.
Founded in 2010 by award-winning filmmaker Christopher J. Gervais, the festival brings together an international community of films, filmmakers, advocates, and scientists committed to preserving wildlife and global biodiversity.
It provides a platform for hundreds of filmmakers to connect and engage in meaningful discussions with attendees from the global conservation, education, wildlife film, and travel industries. Our mission is to inform, engage and inspire audiences about the upmost need and importance of the protection of global biodiversity.
WCFF is excited to announce a strategic alliance with Ecoflix, the first not-for-profit streaming channel dedicated to protecting animals and the planet. This partnership offers filmmakers the optional opportunity to participate on the online Ecoflix platform, providing increased global access to submitted films

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Wildlife Conservation Film Festival 2025
  • Peixinho (Little Fish) WCFF 2025

    In a remote coastal village in Mozambique, where the ocean is both a lifeline and a force of nature, one young man dares to rewrite the narrative of his community. Peixinho is an inspiring tale of resilience and transformation, following the journey of a local hero as he bridges generations and r...

  • The Leap Beneath WCFF 2025

    Narrated by Coyote Peterson, this film dives into the hidden world beneath the forest floor. Follow a springtail’s clumsy quest for food through a bustling ecosystem where mites, beetles, and other tiny creatures keep the forest alive.
    Roman Willi is an award-winning wildlife filmmaker and photog...

  • Zubr WCFF 2025

    Don, a bison ranger, embarks on a journey to the Białowieża Forest in Poland, where he uncovers how these gentle giants are transforming ecosystems.
 Armed with these insights, he returns to the UK with a new appreciation of what it means to live alongside wildlife, furthering his work to restore...

  • The American Southwest WCFF 2025

    The American Southwest is a wild and unforgettable journey down the mighty Colorado River. Narrated by Quannah Chasinghorse, the film beautifully showcases the region’s abundant wildlife, confronts the ecological impacts of dams and river depletion, and boldly advocates for increased water and w...

  • Gazing at Mount Da-Jian WCFF 2025

    A young digital media graduate student returns to her hometown to document the nature of Kenting. Behind the camera, she rediscovers the land she once took for granted and unexpectedly witnesses her father's transformation from a hunter into a guardian of the environment. This is a story of inter...

  • Leave a Legacy WCFF2025

    Leave a Legacy, a film by Black Bean Productions, tells the story of the Chem Chem Association’s mission to restore Tanzania’s Kwakuchinja Corridor. Once devastated by logging, poaching, and overgrazing, the land had lost its vital wildlife migratory routes, sparking conflict between people and a...

  • War Zone Otter WCFF 2025

    Soldiers left. Otters returned. Once scarred by war, Kinmen became Taiwan’s last otter stronghold.
    Born to shellfire, a local man unexpectedly documented these endangered creatures thriving among abandoned bunkers.
    As the world marks the 80th anniversary of WWII’s end, Otter emerges as a peaceful...

  • A Clawsome Tale WCFF 2025

    This whimsical, entertaining short documentary dives into the wondrous world of The National Lobster Hatchery in Cornwall (UK). The National Lobster Hatchery opened in 2000, to help prevent a collapse in European Lobster populations in the region, following similar collapses in Scandinavia and th...

  • Penguins of the Point WCFF 2025

    Penguins of the Point is a short wildlife documentary that explores the daily lives of penguins at Volunteer Point in the Falkland Islands, showcasing the resilience of these remarkable birds as they face both predators and modern threats such as climate change, commercial fishing and avian influ...

  • Return Of The Predators WCFF 2025

    Devastated by a decades-long civil war, Mozambiques Gorongosa National Park suffered immensely, with its top predators nearly wiped out and the ecosystem thrown out of balance. After years of critical restoration work by a dedicated team, the park has reached a pivotal moment. Now, painted wolves...

  • Red Wolf In Time Out WCFF 2025

    An 11 year old Narrator and her stepdad's animation (an award winning duo) present a fast paced series of events and misconceptions that lead to the deliberate eradication of the American Red Wolf. It also highlights the negative fallout caused by their absence in the ecosystem. An elementary sch...

  • Choiba, The Dance Of The Humpback Whale WCFF2025

    Based on an ancient legend and guided by the millenary song of the humpback whale, Choibá: The Dance of the Humpback Whale tells the story of a group of documentary filmmakers who decide to learn from the great journey of this cetacean, following its sacred migration from the coasts of the Colomb...

  • 313 WCFF 2025

    313 is a two minute micro-short inspired by one of many David Attenboroughs quotes, exploring the relevance and legacy of animals on our planet. Decades or centuries down the line when generations past and when and time rewrites itself, will our wild neighbors become victims of vague assumptions,...

  • El Huemul De DiCaprio WCFF 2025

    When Leonardo DiCaprio shared a camera trap photo of a huemul deer from Chilean Patagonia on Instagram, the image went viral overnight. For most, it was just another fleeting post in the social media scroll. But for filmmaker and geographer Diego Ramos Merino, it was the spark to uncover the real...

  • Return Of The Fireflies WCFF 2025

    Amid the motorbikes, neon cafés, and restless energy of Bali, a quiet revolution glows in the shadows. For three years, Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde and local Balinese collaborators have worked to bring back a species that had almost disappeared: the firefly. In Indonesia, these small beacons ar...

  • The Detectorists WCFF 2025

    Wildlife ecologist Lee Jenkins from South Wales is on a mission to protect one of the UK’s most elusive and endangered species—the otter. Alongside his trusted German Pointer, Neo, and Cariad, a young pup in training, Lee searches the rivers and wetlands of rural Wales for hidden signs of otter a...

  • Wild Spirit WCFF 2025

    Witness the incredible story of the WRCNU (Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah) and their fight to continue saving Utah's wildlife after suddenly losing their building for the ironic expansion of Ogden's dinosaur park. We follow the founder, DaLyn Marthaler, as she navigates the 6 mon...

  • Kāinga Tupu WCFF 2025

    Kāinga Tupu ("Homeland") is a 2D hand-drawn film that brings attention to New Zealand’s endangered forest parrot, the Kākāpō. This story follows the bird as he explores his home. But, something doesn't seem right. Noises and lights in the distance seem to be coming faster and faster. The forest m...

  • Catapults to Cameras WCFF 2025

    In Catapults to Cameras, Kolkata-born wildlife filmmaker Ashwika Kapur sets out on a deeply personal quest to uncover the roots of an illegal wildlife hunting festival in the forests of her home state West Bengal. Each year, thousands of protected animals are massacred here in an illegal blood sp...

  • Artificial Planet WCFF 2025

    For the past 50 years, wildlife documentaries have been an integral part of conservation efforts, helping people connect to the natural world and raising awareness of contentious environmental issues. At the same time, technology, social media, and nearly universal access to cameras, have complet...

  • The Kluane Compositions WCFF 2025

    The Kluane (kloo-AH-nee) Compositions is an epic music film featuring original music by award-winning musicians Diyet and Matthew Lien, and a grand piano airlifted into the ice-fields, glaciers and front ranges of Canada's Kluane National Park in the Yukon Territory. The film celebrates wildernes...

  • Whisper of Estuary WCFF 2025

    West of Chandpur, where Bangladesh’s earth narrows to a spearpoint, rests Molehead. A defiant triangle of silt and spirit, it meets the sacred confluence of three river-giants—Padma, Meghna, Dakatia—whose currents descend from Himalayan snows to embrace the sea. Its name, Molehead, whispers of st...

  • The Opportunist, The Victim and The Cuprid WCFF 2025

    In the neighboring meadow, an opportunist takes advantage of the mistake of a careless human. An innocent victim pays the price. In nature, nothing is ever lost, everything is transformed — even in the most tragic stories.
    This short story, filmed like an old western, confronts us with our indiff...