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FROME INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE FILM FESTIVAL CIC We are Changing the World
Connecting, Sharing, Supporting and Inspiring Positive Change through Film, Music and Art
Welcome
A warm welcome from James Godman - Festival CEO, Creator & Director, the Festival Judges, Volunteers, Collaborators and Supporters to the WORLDS FIRST, FREE, INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DEDICATED TO CLIMATE AND THE ENVIRONMENT.
Together we are changing the World
Community World Cinema - 2026 Festival Films
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Director: Adlai Salcedo
Country: Canada, Colombia
Film Title: From the Mountain to the Sea
On the east coast of Bali, coral reefs are disappearing at an alarming rate, but a local diving centre refuses to let this happen. Instead, they’re bringing the very community that depends on these waters into the heart of the restoration effort.
From the Mountain to the Sea is a film born from a simple truth: ecosystem restoration doesn’t succeed in isolation. It thrives when local communities are empowered to lead it. At the heart of this story is Claudia Koch, founder of We Do Ocean, whose work reveals what true community-led restoration can look like. Through her sustainable diving centre, more than 275 square meters of coral reef have been revived, and new full-time restoration jobs have been created, many of them held by local women. The film follows the restoration process intimately, while also showing how travellers can contribute meaningfully to this fragile ecosystem.
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Director: João Carrilho
Country: Portugal
Film Title: The Guardians of Ria Formosa
Drawing on the visual language of Japanese anime, this animated short documentary explores Portugal’s Ria Formosa Natural Park through the journey of an iconic seahorse. Blending panel-based compositions, decorative patterns, and cinematic landscapes with scientific research from the University of Algarve, the film reveals the dramatic 90% decline of the world’s once-largest seahorse population.
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Director: Zeynep İkra SEZGİN
Country: Türkiye
Film Title: Saplings of Hope
For years, Bülent Kilercioğlu has been growing oak saplings with his own resources and returning them to nature. This love of nature, inherited from his father, has gradually transformed into a movement that inspires those around him. Students documenting his story are now teaching elementary school children the hope and responsibility of growing saplings. "Saplings of Hope" is a documentary that explores how one person's efforts take root in new generations.
NEWS - EVENTS - PROJECTS - COLLABORATIONS
FESTIVAL NEWS - EVENTS
EVENTS & OPPORTUNTIES
Dorothy House Charity - Living Christmas Shop Window (1st time for Frome)
We created, supported and had fun in the live shop window to help to raise funds for the Local Hospice Home - Dorothy House - All part of the Frome Christmas Extravaganza
Art by the Lake in November
Join us at Langford lakes for inspiring art, films, music, talks and wonderful company
The Climate Film Festival supported the Sustainable Fashion Week and the Wardrobe Collective Classic Clothes Swap September
FOR OTHER EVENTS SUPPORTED IN 2025 PLEASE GO TO THE EVENTS SUPPORTED PAGE.....
FESTIVAL NEWS - FILMS
The Climate Film Festival screened films at Victoria Park in Frome in October and at Langford lakes in November to promote the Directors and their films.
The Little Tree Community World Cinema
We are now running six screens via our website, see below, for Climate Film Festival Submissions on YouTube and other Guest Films which align to our mission to promote the Directors and their films.
Exclusive films from the 2025 Frome International Climate Film Festival
Some wonderful festival films are now available to book at in-person events.
Please contact the festival to arrange free film screenings of these festival films where we have the Directors permissions to screen.
COLLABORATIONS
The Climate Film Festival is now collaborating with Wiltshire College & University Centre supporting : UAL L3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production & Technology
Wiltshire College & University Centre
One Minute World: Your Voice
People are interesting: they have interesting stories to tell on topics they care deeply about. That’s the ethos behind the One Minute Wonder series on Vimeo and YouTube. It’s also why the Frome International Climate Change Festival was set up.
As an aspiring content creator looking for work in Wiltshire, you want to show that you can find those stories in your area and present them to an audience in an engaging way. Your client has set you the challenge of producing a one-minute piece about a person living or working in Wiltshire to show off your skills.
That person will have an active interest in environmental issues, such as sustainability or the natural world.
Three of the films made will win a cash prize from the Frome Climate Change Festival’s founder, James Godman, who will act as your client.
COLLABORATION
The Climate Film Festival is now collaborating with Saint Charles College in Argentina.
Home - Saint Charles - A Complete Educational Proposal
'On behalf of our school community, we would like to sincerely thank you for the wonderful opportunity to connect with you and for the inspiring words you shared with our Junior 4 students. It was a unique and enriching experience for them to learn, interact, and feel motivated by your encouragement. We are truly honoured to have received the certificate:
“Frome International Climate Film Festival AWARD – Membership of the Global Film Family for Climate and the Environment.”
This recognition means a lot to us, as it strengthens our commitment to creativity, collaboration, and raising awareness about the environment through education. We deeply appreciate your generosity and support, and we hope to continue building bridges that inspire our students to imagine, create, and take action for a better world.
Regards, Daniela Maset English Head EPSaint Charles College
COLLABORATION
The Climate Film Festival is now collaborating with the Royal Geographical Society (South West) Royal Geographical Society | Advancing geography and GENSOC at the University of Gloucestershire University of Gloucestershire
The Festival held an event - Landscapes of Hope - at The Park Campus at Gloucestershire University on the 1st December screening a selection of inspiring films from France, Kenya and Brazil with a guest lecture/ talk by the Festival Creator & Director James Godman.
The event concluded with a Q&A session.
More events are planning in the coming months and if you would like to see some of the inspiring films from around the world then please contact the festival team
COLLABORATION
The Climate Film Festival Partnership with NATOURALE film festival in German.y NATOURALE
The Natourale festivals mission is to "Inspire people about the environment, nature, and sustainable travel"
The Festival is Now Truly Global
2025 SUBMISSIONS OPEN - LET'S GET FILMING
We are now in our 4th year and the 2025 Festival and we are growing and connecting to more and more countries and film makers around the world and helping their voices to be heard.
The Climate Festival Film screenings this year were held on the 18th May in the Cheese and Grain in Frome, Somerset and the Awards and Celebrations Day, a dedicated day, was held at Rook Lane Chapel in Frome on the 25th May,
In 2025 we finally received had 1150 films, which included a pause for 1 week of not accepting submission, from over 100 countries with the Top 10 countries being:
- Iran – 93
- India – 87
- UK – 77
- USA - 74
- Brazil - 68
- Turkey - 52
- Italy - 46
- France - 46
- Spain - 38
- Mexico – 30
We are so honoured to accept so many films from around the world, we are here to help you the Directors and those involved to have a voice, to share your stories and to inspire others to change.
During 2025 for all of those selected we will aim to show your films during the year with your/ the Directors permission at in person screenings and we will showcase films already available on YouTube in our NEW Little Tree Community Cinema
How to Support and Donate
OUR MISSION
To connect, share, support and inspire green change through film and the wider arts. Supporting and promoting those who are taking positive climate and environmental action around the world.
OUR AIMS
1.To make the need to change visible through positive, inspiring and educational films and the wider arts from around the world and to support the creators.
2. To create educational outreach programmes to support green change locally and
globally through knowledge exchange, storytelling, filmmaking, the media, gaming, technology,
and the wider arts.
3.To support local green community groups through helping them to make films to support their cause and to train the next generation of filmmakers.
4. To set up dedicated climate film collaborations, locally and globally through a 'Global Film Family’ and to make ‘The Climates’ original films, as together we are stronger.
5. To encourage the public, people, families, organisations, businesses to THINK GREEN
in all that they do and to BE GREEN and to create a Climate Charter with % GDP enshrined.
How to Donate
If you would like to donate or to sponsor to the Climate Film Festival to help us to deliver our mission, detailed below please click the donations button below
Sponsorship Packages include....
Time to Change = £10
This donation is also about your personal commitment to pause and reflect on your daily life and to think about, little steps and little changes to have a more sustainable lifestyle.
Make It Visible = £50
This donation will help in the delivery of the annual Climate Film Festival and campaigns. The festival costs circa £3,500 a year all run by volunteers.
Protect Our Future = £100
This donation will be targeted at the development and delivery of the educational outreach programme, campaigns and the bursary programme for young filmmakers
Protect Our Planet = £250
This donation will be targeted at the development of the website, database and infrastructure required to connect the local and global Film Family to support each other, to share knowledge, experience and best practice around the world as we don't have time to all learn from the start
Note: The Frome International Climate Film Festival is a Transparent Trader (TT) (a new concept developed by the festival for openness to prevent greed and exploitation) so wages, activities, payments, donations and any profits can be seen on request, we have no secrets, we are one family with a passion to deliver change through film.
Note: All donations must be from an ethical source