25 FLEFFistas write about how the festival changed their thinking, their art, their writing, and their ideas about the environment

To celebrate the festival's 25th annual edition in 2022, the 25 for 25 project marked how the festival has impacted participants and staff to think differently about the environment. Contributors recounted their experiences of FLEFF screenings, concerts, roundtables, master classes, events, and programming. The 25 for 25 team was Leah Shafer, Editor; Rachel Schaff, Assistant Editor; Rachael Geary, Editorial Assistant; and Rachel Rosenberg, Editorial Assistant.
The Counterfeiters
Die Fälscher
March 11, 2022
The Pleasures of Shared Cinephilia
By Michael Richardson, Director of the Screen Cultures Program and Chair of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Ithaca College.
America Street
AMERICA STREET
March 10, 2022
Connecting With a Global Audience
By Idrissou Mora-Kpai, an award-winning Beninese filmmaker whose films have screened at international film festivals such as in Berlin, Rotterdam, Vienna, Milano, Busan, Sheffield, Cinema du Réel, and FID Marseille.
DARK SUN SQUEEZE
DARK SUN SQUEEZE
March 9, 2022
Altered and Broadened Perspectives
By Pawel Wojtasik, internationally recognized film and video artist whose work offers visionary and poetic reflections on our environment and culture.
FLEFF
An Ecosystem of Ideas
March 8, 2022
Bridging Worlds and Imagining New Ones
By Andrew Utterson, Associate Professor of Screen Studies, Ithaca College
JERUSALEM WE ARE HERE (2016)
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
March 7, 2022
The FLEFF Ecosystem Generates Hope
By Dorit Naaman, documentarist and film theorist from Jerusalem, and Professor of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Queen’s University, Canada.
THE CHALLENGE
THE CHALLENGE
March 6, 2022
THE CHALLENGE
By Sorayya Khan, author of three novels, NOOR, FIVE QUEENS ROAD, AND CITY OF SPIES. HER MOST RECENT BOOK IS WE TAKE OUR CITIES WITH US: A MEMOIR .
Welcome
INHABIT & WELCOME
March 5, 2022
Growing Connections and Building Community
By Matthew Holtmeier, Assistant Professor in Film Studies at East Tennessee State University