2025 Films
2025 Festival Selections Added to Watch Now!
Looking for great new environmental films to enjoy all year-round? Over 20 Selections from our 2025 Festival are now available to stream — either on our website or via popular streaming services and on demand. These titles come from across many segments of our 2025 lineup, including our Local Waterways program, Pulitzer Center shorts, embassy presentations, and screenings focused on wildlife, oceans, food systems, environmental justice, and more.
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The Last Wild Herd
The Buffalo Field Campaign has fought on the front lines for the last 27 years against the harassment and slaughter of Yellowstone’s buffalo — the last remaining wild, migratory herd of this keystone species. This film explores the organization’s role in writing the story of the past, present and future management of buffalo in and around Yellowstone.
Aayas Joshi & Anna Connors | 13 min.

Chesapeake Rhythms
Chronicles the essential rhythms of Chesapeake Bay: wind, tides, migrations of tundra swans, Monarch butterflies, shorebirds and eels. These ancient migrations, annual rituals repeated repeated for millennia, weave a tapestry that enriches our lives and oblige Chesapeake dwellers to maintain our hugely important way station in this vaster scheme of comings and goings.
David Harp | 30 min.
Wild Hope: Mission Impossible
Tells the inspiring story of how a late-career epiphany led “wacky genius” Pat Brown to abandon his academic career and commit himself to fighting global warming and biodiversity collapse, starting with a surprising product – an impossibly delicious plant-based hamburger.
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios | 39 min.
Upstream, Downriver: Uniting for Water Justice
The 1972 Clean Water Act introduced landmark regulations significantly reducing water pollution in America. However, it did not serve many disadvantaged communities most vulnerable to our climate crisis. From Washington, DC to Los Angeles, this new film takes you on a journey into the heart of the struggle for water justice and equity.
Maggie Burnette Stogner | 58 min.
Sol in the Garden
After 16 years of incarceration, Sol is released from prison, when she discovers that her freedom can be as challenging as living behind bars. Through a community gardening collective of formerly incarcerated horticulturalists in East Oakland, Sol strives to recover her humanity and sense of self.
Emily Cohen Ibañez | 21 min.
More 2025 Festival Selections Now Available for Streaming!
Some can be viewed directly on dceff.org, others are available via VOD or on streaming services like Disney+ and Amazon Prime.