CFF in Paris: Get Tickets + See the Full Film Program @Jeu de Paume

Tickets are live for our pop-up festival at Jeu de Paume, Paris.

Bienvenue à Paris! Later this month, CFF heads to Paris for a special three-day pop-up at Jeu de Paume, one of France’s leading contemporary art institutions. We’ll be hosting a mini-Climate Film Fest: a curated selection of films to complement the museum’s blockbuster exhibition of photographer Martin Parr, Global Warning.

Read on to explore the full lineup and get tickets.

In this Newsletter:

• 🎟 Get Tickets to CFF @ Jeu de Paume

• 🎬 CFF @ Jeu de Paume Film Program

• 🌱 Opportunities & Events

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🎬 CFF @ Jeu de Paume

Will you be in Paris from April 24 to April 26? We’d love to see you for one, two, or all three days of our mini-fest!

📆 When: Friday, April 24 through Sunday, April 26

📍 Where: Jeu de Paume, Tuileries Garden, 1 Pl. de la Concorde, 75001 Paris, France

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Jeu de Paume Opening Night: Friday, April 24

Searching for Amani (2024, dir. Nicole Gormley, Debra Aroko)

📆 19:30

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In Searching for Amani, a young aspiring journalist investigates his father’s mysterious murder within the boundaries of one of Kenya’s largest wildlife conservancies. As a ravaging drought encroaches, his quest to find the killer shifts as the collateral damage of a warming world is revealed. Winner of CFF’s 2024 Best Documentary Award.

After the film, attendees of the opening night film screening will be welcome to join a reception for guests, filmmakers, and partners!

Language: In Swahili and English, with French subtitles.

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Jeu de Paume Program: Saturday, April 25

Soft Rains, Hard Truths: Narrative Shorts from CFF 2025

📆 11:30

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Mythical creatures, mushroom trips, alien archaeologists, and mutating children—this collection of short narrative films bends time, genre, and logic to explore the wild edges of climate collapse. Darkly funny and deeply felt, these stories imagine the legacies we pass down—of culture, resistance, and survival—when nature starts talking back. This block will feature the following films:

• “Everything is Fine” (2024, dir. Areeya Jitaree)

• “HOT SODA” (2023, dir. Nello DiGiandomenico)

• “There Will Come Soft Rains” (2025, dir. Elham Ehsas)

• “Kuhaan” (2025, dir. Vinati Makijany)

• “Kataw” (2024, dir. Alyssa Ashley Manugas)

• “The Human Fossil” (2024, dir. Rebecca Huang)

• “The Persistence of Memory” (2025, dir. Genevieve Hannelius, Zulema Young-Toledo)

Languages: Original versions, in English or with English subtitles.

To Hold a Mountain (2026, dir. Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić)

📆 14:30

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In To Hold a Mountain, set in the pristine mountains of Montenegro, a mother and daughter defend their herding tradition and land from becoming a NATO military training ground while facing ongoing violence against women and nature in the region.

Language: In Montenegrin, with French subtitles.

Ghost Elephants (2025, dir. Werner Herzog, avant première)

📆 19:30

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Announcing the French avant première of the newest project from acclaimed director Werner Herzog! For over a decade, Dr. Steve Boyes, conservation biologist and National Geographic Explorer, has been in search of a mysterious, elusive herd of Ghost Elephants in the highlands of Angola, deep within its forests. Herzog’s Ghost Elephants follows Boyes on an epic journey as he sets out with some of the best master trackers in the world, in pursuit of an animal long believed to be a myth.

Language: In English, with French subtitles.

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Jeu de Paume Program: Sunday, April 26

Tectonics: Experimental Shorts from CFF 2025

📆 11:30

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Through temporal imagery and fragmented narratives, the first edition of CFF’s Tectonics program offers meditations on the intangible undercurrents of the Anthropocene. These experimental works foreground subjectivity, non-human perspectives, fictional possibilities, and rhythmic structures that expand conversations about climate into broader socio-political terrains. The program includes:

• “Dear Phonocene” (2024, dir. Mélia Roger)

• “Common Pear” (2025, dir. Gregor Božič)

• “Alheio” (2024, dir. Pedro Paulo Araujo)

• “O Jardim em Movimento” (2024, dir. Inês Lima)

• “The Instability of Clouds” (2024, dir. Zazie Ray-Trapido)

• “Dreamland” (2024, dir. Tehya Jennett, Maxfield Biggs)

• “Extra Life (and Decay)” (2025, dir. Stéphanie Lagarde)

Languages: Original versions, in English or with English subtitles.

Yanuni (2025, dir. Richard Ladkani, avant première)

📆 15:00

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YANUNI (avant première) follows the extraordinary journey of Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous chief from the Brazilian Amazon, as she rises from a remote village in Xipaya territory to the political frontlines of climate justice. Spanning years of activism and personal sacrifice, the film captures Juma’s historic appointment as Brazil’s first Secretary of Indigenous Rights under President Lula. Told with intimate access and cinematic urgency, YANUNI is both a love story and a call to action. It illuminates one of the world’s most critical environmental and human rights struggles through a deeply personal lens. At once epic and intimate, YANUNI is a powerful portrait of resilience, Indigenous sovereignty, and the fight to protect the world’s largest rainforest—for future generations and the planet we call home.

Language: In Portuguese and English, with French subtitles.

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🌱 Opportunities & Events

• 4/13: Sundance Institute Documentary Fund & Sandbox Films: Sandbox Fund

• 4/13: Berkeley Film Foundation, 2026 Documentary Grant Program

• 4/14: Woodman Family Foundation, Housing Stability Grant for Artists

• 4/14: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Climate Comedy Show, Hosted by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

• 4/15: Science New Wave Fund III

• 4/15: South Street Seaport Museum, The Keeper Film Screening

• 4/16: CFF Pop-Up Screening at LA Climate Week

• 4/16: Rhizome Fellowship: Pathways for Regenerative Futures Application Deadline

• 4/16: May 14: Human Impacts Institute Exhibition: 2026 Creative Climate Awards, Collective Power

• 4/17: Catapult Film Fund & True/False Film Fest: Rough Cut Retreat Application Deadline

• 4/18: Co-Creation Studio and Agog: The Immersive Media Institute, 2026 WORLDING INCUBATOR on Climate Futures

• 4/18: Rockaway Film Festival Earth Day Celebration: Trash Pickup at Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary and Free Screenings at Arverne Cinema

• 4/18: CFF Screening of The Unfixing & Panel Discussion (sold out)

• 4/19: CFF Screening of The Unfixing & Panel Discussion (second screening—tickets available!)

• 4/20: CFF & WE ACT Solar Solutions Earth Week Screening & Panel

• 4/20: Catapult Film Fund Development Grant Application Deadline

• 4/21: Films of Return: Special Climate Short Film Screening + Q&A

• 4/22: CFF Earth Day Screening: Oceania at NYU

• 4/24 - 4/26: CFF Pop-Up at Jeu de Paume, Paris

• 4/25: Hahapocalypse: A Comedy Show to Support Climate Activists Under Attack

• 4/29: Chicken & Egg Films, 2027 (Egg)celerator Lab

• 5/14: The 2026 Redford Center Grants Open Call Deadline

• 5/15: Climate Film Festival Open Call Submission Deadline

• 5/20: Center for Craft, Craft Archive Fellowship

• Ongoing: Northeast Historic Film, the Chicago Film Archives, & the Lesbian Home Movie Project, The Woman Behind the Camera

• Ongoing: Pulitzer Center Work/Environment Reporting Grants

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