Award Winning Films from the 2026 Frome International Climate Film Festival

THE FILM ROOM – COMMUNITY CINEMA, supporting new and current filmmakers locally and from around the world, because everyone should have a voice. Non mainstream cinema which matters.

23rd September Films
FILM 1 – OBRONI WAWU – DEAD MAN’S CLOTHES: Obroni Wawu, meaning “dead white man’s clothes”, follows Ghanaian creatives and traders as they confront the environmental and social toll of second hand clothing dumped from the Global North.
FILM 2 – SAURY SEAWEED: The Korean Peninsula is a land where the Cold War never died. As oceans warm, the southern survival limit of a mythic marine plant is relentlessly retreating north. The species is vanishing from the South.

21st October Films
FILM 1 – A FOOD STORY: There is a place in Tenerife where humans and animals sustain themselves with a simple yet extraordinary resource: food waste. They collect, segregate, cook, store, and create compost from it, by sustaining up to 40 people and 400 animals each day using just the waste from a single supermarket
FILM 2 – INTO THE WILD: INTO THE WILD explores the American West and its unique ecosystems, where iconic species such as mustangs and coyotes are under threat. Alongside zoologist Yvan Kereun, the film blends science, Indigenous knowledge, and conservation practices

18th November Films
FILM 1 – WHEN SOLAR LIGHTS UPON THE COMMUNITY: In a timeworn community in Shanghai, a group of Green Housewives has turned the neighbourhood into a stage for renewable energy. When solar lights upon the community, the players step forward: a mother of three who studied renewable power in Scandinavia; an artist who creates gallery-worthy sculptures with the community from recyclables; China’s first household-solar pioneer; a high-schooler who runs the community garden’s irrigation on renewable energy.
FILM 2 – WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WILDLIFE IN THE CITY: The city is like a living organism. Healthy and in perfect balance, it can make its inhabitants happy, people as well as animals and plants. If it gets out of balance, it becomes ill and with it all the creatures that live in it. It is a valuable habitat for animals such as hedgehogs, rhinoceros beetles and swallowtails. But cities are under pressure.

16th December Films
FILM 1 – ROOTED IN RESILIENCE: In an economy often built on extraction, the women in Rooted in Resilience offer a powerful alternative built on reciprocity. This documentary captures the journey of Indigenous entrepreneurs who treat the land as a relative rather than a resource.
FILM 2 – WASTED 2025: Wasted prompts us to re-examine who we are and our values — to re-think our relationship with the world around us. We cannot continue to extract and exploit our ecosystems at unprecedented rates and continue down the path of wasting our precious natural resources. We want to inspire action across business, policy and individuals to clean up our communities, cities and natural habitats and create healthy, thriving economies.