“The INNSBRUCK NATURE FILM FESTIVAL is a 5 star experience for filmmakers.My best experience amongst all the other prestigious festivals where our film won.”
— Filmmaker, AUSTRALIA
Winner: Best Film On The Topic Of Soil 2018
(THE KINGDOM)
23rd Innsbruck Nature Film Festival
9th – 13th October 2024
Metropol Cinema, Innsbruck, Tyrol
THE FILM FESTIVAL
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INNSBRUCK NATURE FILM FESTIVAL (INFF) is THE film festival with focus on nature and the environment in Austria. In 2024, the INFF will take place for the 23nd time.
The INFF hosts an international film competition and became important cultural event in the Tyrol and the city of Innsbruck.
In addition to the high-quality cinematic art aspect, it simultaneously raises important aspects on the topics of nature, ecology and sustainability to an international stage.
As an environmental film festival in the middle of the Alps, the INFF pays special attention to European networking and values in the sense of the European Green Deal. It sees itself as a European platform for the exchange of filmmakers, production companies and broadcasters from all over the world. In the spirit of multilateral cultural exchange, the Innsbruck Nature Film Festival cooperates with IUCN CEC (Commission on Education and Communication), the Alpine Convention and the Green Film Network.
Hear from our community
“The films shown at the INNSBRUCK NATURE FILM FESTIVAL allow me to dive into different worlds, travel to foreign countries, but also make discoveries in my own backyard that excite and touch me.”
— Leitung Cine Tirol Film Commission, ÖSTERREICH
“The INNSBRUCK NATURE FILM FESTIVAL is an exemplary gem of sustainability through the arts, with a remarkable selection of films and collateral events.”
— Filmmaker, journalist, artist, ITALY
“Hosted by inspirational and enthusiastic programmers, who select Innovative Film and Documentaries, that celebrate the natural world and our place in it. Couldn’t have asked for a better festival.”
— Filmmaker, IRELAND
Winner: Best Environmental Documentary 2018
(THE SILVER BRANCH)
“The INNSBRUCK NATURE FILM FESTIVAL is one of my absolute favourites, because you can feel the sweat, tears and passion that go into it, the program is diverse and the atmosphere in the amazing theatre in the city of Innsbruck amidst the Alps is unique!”
— Filmmaker, GERMANY
Winner: Best Nature Documentary 2018
(WHITE WOLVES – GHOSTS OF THE ARCTIC)
“Coming to the Innsbruck Nature Film Festival feels like diving into another world for some days. Being surrounded by so many nature lovers, creative directors from all over the world, a passionate Festival-team and the beautiful Alps is very inspiring and I enjoy the variety of films as much as the discussions with the Jury and the public.”
— Editorial journalist at GEO and 360°GEO-Reportage/ARTE, GERMANY
Annamaria Talas
Johannes Köck
Chiara Isabella Spagnoli Gabardi
Katrina Costello
Oliver Goetzl
Katja Trippel
Five categories and four Special Awards
INFF is awarding commendations in five categories and four special awards and this year once again expresses its sincere gratitude to the sponsors who make it possible to award the winning films with prizes totalling € 18.000,-.
THE
PRIZES
GRAND PRIZE FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY & GREEN FICTION FILM
Innsbruck is the capital of Tyrol and deeply committed to a careful approach to nature. In this respect, we are also very pleased in 2022 to have reliable partners in the City of Innsbruck and Innsbruck Tourismus, who will award the main prizes for the two categories Nature Documentary and Environmental Documentary.
„GRAND PRIZE FOR THE BEST NATURE DOCUMENTARY”
worth € 3.000,-
„GRAND PRIZE FOR THE BEST ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTARY”
worth € 3.000,-
„GRAND PRIZE FOR THE BEST GREEN FICTION FILM”
worth € 2.000,-
SHORT FILMS
We very much value this cinematic art form and therefore nominate short films to let them take their rightful place on the big screen.
„AWARD FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM“
worth € 1.500,-
sponsored by IVB
„AWARD FOR THE BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM“
worth € 1.500,-
The jury will award the following special prizes to selected films from the Short List:
WILD WOMEN AWARD
We celebrate women directors and/or cinematographers in the field of nature/environmental documentary with this new award.
„WILD WOMEN AWARD”
worth € 2.000,–
„CHRISTIAN BERGER CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD”
Personally selected by Christian Berger, Academy-Award nominated cameraman and producer.
„CHRISTIAN BERGER CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD”
Non-cash-prize worth € 2.770,-
Swarovski Optik Pure NL binoculars
SPECIAL AWARD „BEST FILM ON THE TOPIC OF SOIL
A healthy soil is the basis of a healthy life – for plants, humans and animals. This award, which is being presented for the sixth time this year, shall remind us of this.
worth € 2.000,-
donated by Fröschl, province of Tyrol and University of Innsbruck
„BEST SHORTFILM FOR KIDS AWARD” by TIROLER TAGESZEITUNG
Our long-standing partner, the Tiroler Tageszeitung, has the strongest reach in the country as a print and online medium. With this award, it promotes filmmakers who tell visual stories for young people – whether with a professional camera or a smart phone.
worth € 1.000
BEST FILM ON THE TOPIC OF BIODIVERSITY
worth € 2.000
BEST FILM ON THE TOPIC OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE ALPS
donated by the Alpine Convention
worth € 2.000
THE
JURY
It’s in the mix
Comparing artistic works such as films, each one a jewel in itself, evaluating them and in the end choosing the winners is an especially difficult task and requires particularly sensitive and attentive people. Here we present the high-calibre members of this and last year’s INFF jurys.
AWARD JURY 2023
Felicitas Schwarz
TV Editor Department Wissen, arte
Rickey Welch
Director of Production at WaterBear Network
Johannes Kostenzer
Tyrolean Environmental Obudsman, Festival director INFF, Innsbruck (AT)
Diana Garlytska
IUCN Commission on Education and Communication, Regional Vice Chair Western Europe, Vilnius (LTU)
Birgit Skulski
TV Editor at ORF Universum
Ruskin Hartley
Conservationist & Executive Director Dark Sky International
Max Bale
Head of RFI Planète Radio, Radio France International
Stefanie Pontasch
Biologist
Ivana Jovčić
Green Fest Festival, Executive director Environment Improvement Center Belgrad
Yaz Ellis
Wildlife Filmmaker and Cinematographer
Victor Santos
Sustainability Officer European Film Academy
Patrick Centurioni
Wildlife Filmmaker & Cinematographer
SPECIAL JURY FOR BEST FILM ON THE TOPIC OF SOIL 2023
Thomas Peham
Soil-Expert (“Soilist”) Government of Tyrol, Innsbruck
Heribert Insam
Head of the Institute for Microbiology, University of Innsbruck
Judith Ascher-Jenull
Scientific Associate at the Institute of Microbiology / University of Innsbruck
Maria Gomez-Brandón
Senior Researcher for Microbiology, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Andreas Baumgarten
Chairman of the Pedological Society Austria, Head of Department for Soil Health and Plant Nutrition at AGES (Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety), Vienna
SPECIAL JURY FOR CHRISTIAN BERGER CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD 2023
Christian Berger
Director of photography, producer, director and professor, Oscar nomination for director of cinematography for DAS WEISSE BAND (2010), Vienna
„BEST SHORTFILM FOR KIDS“-Audience voting TIROLER TAGESZEITUNG 2023
SELECTION JURY 2023
fltr: Manuel Stabentheiner (Naturführer), Manon Megens (INFF), Silvia Prock (Universität Innsbruck), Verena Doskar (WWF), Christina Schmölzer (Ferrarischule), Carsten Loeb (natopia), Ana Valero (WET), Andreas Hudler (INFF), Elisabeth Stark (INFF), Alexander Kröll (Innsbruck Marketing), Manuela Mariacher (Tiroler Umweltanwaltschaft), Julia Ecker (INFF), Katja Trippel (INFF), Daniel Labach (Land Tirol), Nina Feistmantl (INFF), Christian Anich (Tiroler Landesmuseen), Ramona Steixner (Naturführerin), Markus Knitel (OeAV), Juliane Mayer (Universität Innsbruck), Johannes Kostenzer (INFF) (not on the photo: Amber Catford (INFF), Andreas Jedinger (natopia), Eva Müller (Universität Innsbruck), Andre Costa (Filmmaker), Nina Genböck (genböck PR)
