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September 3rd 2021, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest 2021 (KLEFF2021) announces the film lineup for its 14th edition, continuing its festival committee EcoKnights’ effort in creating platform for sustainability communication and education via audio-visual tools.
The festival received a total submission of 136 environmental films from 39 countries this year, whereby the festival received the most submissions from its home country – Malaysia. Entering its second time as a digital film festival with the belief that films can be screened beyond limits via the festival’s digital screening platform, KLEFFlix, 94 films have been selected to be screened this year. Other than films that tells spectacular stories under the festival’s theme ‘Climate Change Yourself’, the festival will also screen films that focus on a spectrum of sustainability topics, thus having an myriad of interdisciplinary stories that voice out the 3 pillars of sustainability – environment, social and economy.
From 24th – 30th October, KLEFF 2021 will be happening virtually at 3 platforms – KLEFFlix, International Greentech & Eco Products Exhibition & Conference Malaysia (IGEM) 2021 and the Malaysian Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.
Congratulations to the following selected films that will be screened in KLEFF 2021 (in alphabetical order):
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50 Shades of Green: The Complex Story of Palm Oil |
Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – The Forest of Limestone | OSHIKA – Winds Of Change | Ticino, a source of biodiversity |
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A Community Under Fire |
Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – The Littoral Forest; Life At The Edge | OUR 4°C-ABLE WORLD |
tripleF*** |
| A Community, Fighting | Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – The Magnificient Machinchang Forests | Painting By Numbers |
Voices of the River |
| A Coral’s Journey from Reef to Lab | Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – The Misunderstood Fig Tree | Pepperwood: Rising From The Ashes |
W.W.W.W.W |
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A journey of 1000 miles starts with a single step |
Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – The Mysterious Mangrove | Pewén: The Earth will say | We Are Nature |
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A River Reborn |
Djibril’s Forest | Poisoned Soil |
Will You Hear Us |
| A Whale’s Worth | DOKUMENTARI BURUNG WALIT | Pongo the Stolen Orangutan: How law can heal |
WORLD OF VIRUSES |
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Active (citizen) |
DOKUMENTARI SAMPAH | Pushed up the Mountain |
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Alles hat Grenzen NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT |
Emerald Forest – Return of the Tigers |
Refugio |
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As Organism (Episode 1/ BrainDagger Films Presents: Knowledge is Good) |
Episode 1: Project PULIH: Mending Broken Reefs |
ROADS TO OUR HERITAGE |
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Bablu From Babylon |
Epoch |
ROADS TO OUR HERITAGE EP 2 |
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Baghjan Reels |
Eternal Harvest |
Seaturtle watcher |
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Barricade |
Extracted: Shimulala | Shoulders Deep | |
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Birthplace |
For Tomorrow Paradise Arrives |
Spring |
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| Blinded By Love |
Forest Hymn for Little Girls |
Symbiosis |
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Cabo Verde – Island Jewel |
Gaachh : The Tree |
Terraform |
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Chimney of Death |
Gardener of the Sea |
The Bamboo Bridge |
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CHOUETTE |
Growing Peace in the Middle East |
The Broken Garden of the Sea |
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CLIMATE FOR CHANGE : Renewing Energy |
Growing Solutions |
The Circle of Life |
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CO2? CO-Nee! |
HERBA AKAR GALAK |
The Fourfold |
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Convergence |
IFANG |
The Green Amendment: New Mexico, Part One |
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Cracked |
In the name of the Olive |
The Land of Griffons |
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Day Zero |
It’s not the oil, it’s the practice |
The Naked Arctic Aventure |
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Discovering Hydrogen |
May they Fly |
The Secrets of Wild Honey |
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Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – A Walk Around Datai Bay |
Messages from the Animals: Otter Love |
The seed |
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Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – Adaptability; Lesson From Nature |
Midang Midang |
THE SHAMANS´ NIGHTMARE |
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Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – In Balance with Nature |
Netejant la Terra / Cleaning the Earth |
The Weather Diaries |
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Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – Passages Through Time |
Not Sinking, Swarming |
The Whale from Lorino |
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| Discovering Langkawi with Irshad Mobarak – The Fabulous Flying 5 | Once Upon A River: Bangladesh’s Delta Disaster | They Keep Quiet So We Make Noise |
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KLEFF 2021 film competition finalists and film screening schedule will be announced in late September. Tickets for screening will be open for sale in early October.
For more information about the Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest or its organizer, EcoKnights, please contact info@kleff.my. or the festival manager, Nabila at nabila@ecoknights.org.my. For KLEFF partnership and collaboration, you may reach our KLEFF Festival Director at fadly@ecoknights.org.my.
ABOUT THE KUALA LUMPUR ECO FILM FEST (KLEFF)
The International KLEFF is Malaysia’s first and longest-serving platform promoting sustainable living through showcases of environment-themed films, workshops, talks, exhibitions, Impact Market, local performances and other engaging activities. Organized by EcoKnights, KLEFF features groundbreaking films that kindle important dialogues, traversing the relationship between humans and their environments, challenging the way people think about the natural world and inspiring them to discuss, explore and act on important environmental issues. For more information about KLEFF, kindly visit its official page at kleff.my and for more current updates, find us on Facebook at @KualaLumpurEcoFilmFestival and Instagram and Twitter at @kleff_my.
ABOUT ECOKNIGHTS
EcoKnights is an environmental non-governmental organization (NGO) registered with the Registrar of Societies Malaysia. EcoKnights’ core focus areas are in environmental education; smart partnerships; strategic engagement and on-ground efforts as well as capacity building of youths. In these areas, EcoKnights focuses on working with key stakeholders to deliver strategically designed developmental interventions, further contributing to positive social, environmental and economic change. More information about EcoKnights can be obtained from www.ecoknights.org.my. For more current updates on what EcoKnights is up to, find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter at @EcoKnights.
For media enquiries, please contact:
Fara Amina Othman,
Digital Content Officer of EcoKnights,
fara@ecoknights.org.my / 011 – 23210492