Wild and Scenic Film Festival

Schedule of Events

9:30 AM - Wild Child at Del Oro Theatre

This family-friendly session showcases several shorts and a feature film curated for kids and adults alike.

Like the Snail
Freya
Attacks!
Tule
Cactus Hotel

10:00 AM - Farming Tales at Oddfellows Nevada City

This sessions has films focused on people with dirt under their nails and the intersection of farming, food systems, and the environment.

It's Time
Nevada County: A Case Study for Legal Cannabis
To Be a Good Home
The Hard Part
Solar Punk Diaries I : SOLAR PUNK FARMS

10:00 AM - Wildlife Conservation at The Stone House

This session is full of films featuring wildlife and the efforts being made to help preserve them and their habitats

Tahlequah the Whale: A Dance of Grief
Managed to Extinction
Lead It Go
Wingspan
Polar Bear Country

10:30 AM - Stream Journeys at Center for the Arts - Cal Solar Main Stage

Adventurous journeys through open water and down rivers.

Obibini
Mother River
About Damn Time
River Mamma
Canyon Chorus
Open Water

10:30 AM - Solutions at Nevada Theatre

Films in this session highlight the brilliant minds around the globe helping to create solutions to the problems we face.

Freetown: Cooling a City
Black Water
Designed by Disaster
Wild Hope: Mission Impossible (full length)

11:00 AM - Honoring Heritage at Sierra College NC Building N12

Films featuring indigenous voices from around the globe.

Preserve our Culture
Indai Apai Darah (Mother, Father, Blood)
Meet Me at the Creek
The Spirit Who Swims

1:30 PM - Land Legacy at The Stone House

Explore stories of preservation and restoration and see how humans are working to restore and preserve lands for generations to come.

Reforesting California after Wildfire
The Fire Poppy
Dos Rios: A Story of Renewal
Decades in the Making
Regen-a-Nation: Farming For Our Future
Against the Herd

2:00 PM - Youth Workshop: Intro to Stop Motion Film at Center for the Arts - Studios

Youth Workshop: Intro to Stop Motion Film

Are you interested in filmmaking? Join SYRCL's Education Director, Monique Streit, to learn how to create a mini stop-motion animated film. Chaperones are welcome for free - bring your Phone if you have one.

2:00 PM - Wild at Heart at Oddfellows Nevada City

A session full of films that embody the 2025 theme of Wild at Heart.

Half Life
JAMIE
Between the Lines
hitoláayca (Going Upriver)

2:30 PM - Champions of the Golden Valley at Center for the Arts - Cal Solar Main Stage

Winner of the Baff Grand Prize and Audience Choice, Champions of the Golden Valley captures the spirit of a classic underdog sports story with the heartfelt portrait of a community finding hope amid disrupted dreams. Revealing a stunning unseen side of Afghanistan, it is an uplifting exploration of what it means to be a champion – in all its forms.

In the remote mountains of Afghanistan, a newfound passion for skiing attracts young athletes from rival villages to the slopes. With minimal gear and makeshift wooden skis, the determined coach Alishah Farhang organizes a ski race like no other that unites the community in a moment of joy and triumph, just before the country's collapse.

Both & Neither | Ambos y Ninguno
Champions of the Golden Valley

2:30 PM - A Call from the Wild at Nevada Theatre

Filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad documents the state of nature at his home country Norway, where he has photographed all his life. From the lives of bees at his farm, to wild reindeer on the high mountains, and puffins at the ocean's edge, he shows the beauty of threatened nature and tracks down human actions responsible for its decline. This is a personal story on our connection with the non-human world, the relations between the small and the big, and a reminder of nature's strength and vulnerability.

For You
Local Climate Solutions: Biodiversity & Forest Conservation in the Sierra Gorda
A Call from the Wild

2:30 PM - Turtle Walker at Sierra College NC Building N12

In the late 1970s, Satish Bhaskar embarked on an epic journey along India's coastlines and the spectacular Andaman and Nicobar islands, where he uncovered the vital nesting beaches of sea turtles. During his death-defying quest, he unravels mysteries surrounding these enigmatic ocean creatures – and sets out to save them from extinction. After a devastating tsunami strikes in 2004, Bhaskar grapples with a pressing question: What happens to sea turtles when their nesting beaches disappear?

Clean Up Sayu
TURTLE WALKER

6:00 PM - Fight the Power at Oddfellows Nevada City

Stories of activism and bravery in the face of climate change and environmental damages, this session embraces the roots of what Wild & Scenic is all about.

Boca Chica
People of Red Mountain: Life Over Lithium
VALVE TURNERS

6:30 PM - Outdoors Adventure at Center for the Arts - Cal Solar Main Stage

From mountain biking to kitesurfing, this session embraces Wild at Heart through action and adventure!

CANAFORNIA
One Inch From Flying
Above Sinai
Rhythm of Water
2 Legs is 2 Easy
Unseen Peaks
Ride to Slide
The Forgotten Coast

6:30 PM - Mollie's Pack at Nevada Theatre

On January 12,1995 wolves returned to Yellowstone, 50 years after their extirpation. Mollie Beattie, director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, carried the first Canadian born wolf into The Park's experimental acclimation enclosure, Alpha Female Wolf No. 5. From that day forward, their lives would be forever connected. This is the true story of Mollie's Pack.

6:30 PM - Dinner and a Movie - Saturday at The Stone House

A special event at The Stone House in Nevada City. Limited seating - must reserve your ticket with your Watershed Pass, or purchase an individual ticket.

Flora, Fauna, Funga
Worm Land
Wild Hope: Mission Impossible (short cut)
Tides of Tradition
Surf and Turf

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