Princeton Environmental Film Festival (PEFF)

04/23/2025

Check out our Top 10 books for adults piublished in the past year exploring our environment.

04/22/2025

is inviting everyone to to "Party Like it's your Earth Day" on Sunday, April 27 from 11-3

04/17/2025

Did you know that the PEFF selects a 'Top 10' list each year of the latests books that explore our environment?
Here are our Top 10 for kids

04/14/2025

Our Natural World in 8×8 – An Art and Poetry Exhibition
This year PEFF invited community members to create art inspired by poetry and over 50 of our community members participated!
You can see art from ages 5 to grown on the first and 3rd floors of the library through the end of the week!

04/12/2025

Did you see Chasing Ice? Do you remember the deeply impactful photos of icebergs disappearing? That was the work of James Balog and his team . Chasing Time is a film about that incredibly impactful project, and the ways in which it will be carried forward.
If you're in NJ/NY/PA you can see it until Sunday evening!

04/11/2025

Don't miss your chance to see this NYC centric, experimental film, Holding Back the Tide. (The virtual fest closes Sunday!)

A woman swallows a pearl. A subway car falls to the ocean floor. A deluge bursts through the cracks of New York City. In every borough, oyster shells are pried apart and carefully returned to sea. A chorus of farmers, diners, sous chefs, fishmongers, activists, and landscape architects colloquializes the oyster’s many lifecycles. These educational snapshots about the bivalve’s ecological role, mating habits, communal living, and historical presence take on new meaning and flirt with the mythic. Underwater dances and poetic addresses blend the human and nonhuman worlds. The oyster as a water filter, carbon capturer, storm barrier, and habitat maker transcends its environmental promise and becomes a q***r icon of New York City’s unlikely survival story.

Retracing cyclical ecologies for the largest metropolitan area in the United States calls upon an existential reimaging of a sustainable future. Out with the narratives of bootstraps and capitalist urban individualism; in with the water-bound, the intergenerational, the q***r collectivity. Once New York City was built by the oysters. Now, it is built anew.

04/11/2025

Bird Safe is a great, local, 10 minute film about how Princeton Students worked to make their world a safe place for birds. And maybe how YOU can too!
Hundreds of millions of birds die each year in the United States after crashing into buildings.

A small group of Princeton University students witnessed this problem on their own campus. Then they got to work figuring out a solution, and convincing the university’s administration to adopt it. This is a small but important story that shows how young people can make a positive difference in the world, and inspire others to do the same.

Presented in partnership with Charles Rogers Wildlife Refuge

04/10/2025

Do you have 9 minutes?
The Way of the Shepherd is a beautiful short | Away from his family for up to 3 years at a time, Peruvian shepherd, Christian Aliaga works the hillsides of northern California with a massive herd of goats and two exceptional Border Collies. Together they roam the land conducting wildfire mitigation with their old-world, natural approach to vegetation management. Christian shares his affinity for nature, the animals he works with, and a glimpse at his timeless trade in the modern age.

04/10/2025

The PEFF continues this week on PEFF.eventive.org -
What would you sacrifice to save the planet? Gianluca Grimalda, university researcher, is the first employee ever fired for having refused to catch a plane for environmental reasons. He did an act of civil disobedience to save 5 tons of CO2 and to raise awareness on the causes of climate change. Was it worth it?

04/08/2025

The documentary "Karuara, People of the River" won two awards at the 28th Lima Film Festival: the Audience Choice Award and the Best Peruvian Film from the festival jury
This film will remind viewers that each river, lake and stream is sacred and that our planet’s fragile water resources must be protected.
https://vimeo.com/464028951
NJ folks can see it too through April 13th on our virtual platform. (link below)

Beneath the waters of Peru’s Amazon lies a world of spirits led by the Karuara, the'people of the river'. A brave indigenous woman confronts powerful…

04/07/2025

We've wrapped the in person portion of the festival, but the virtual fest continues!!
The Volunteers: Mountain Rescue Brings Us Home

04/06/2025

Day 3 of PEFF kicks off with Been Here, Stay Here at 11am. Filmmaker, David Usui will. be joining us and the post Q&A promises to be thought provoking!
See how things have been going in our Flickr

The Princeton Environmental Film Festival enters it's 19th year...

04/05/2025

So pleased to collaborate with Yassine Ait Ali and the Princeton French Film Festival on this morning's screening, "Hvaldimir, Conversation with a Whale"

04/05/2025

Off to a great start with our opening night film, FLOW.

There were tears and lots of appreciation for thus beautiful film that could be enjoyed intergenerationally.

04/04/2025

There are so many great events this weekend and incredible films to watch the following week! We hope you join us!

03/27/2025

We grieve.
When great trees fall...
Dorothea was a (there arent words.)
A kind and brave heart
An intellectual, curious, and illuminative mind
An incomparable partner
An extraordinary and treasured human.
Our love goes to her family and friends and our beloved community.

This week we have said farewell to our dear store founder, Dorothea von Moltke. She was a great force for good in the world, and we know that all of you share our sense of profound loss at this sad news.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to Médecins Sans Frontières / MSF and Resistencia en Acción NJ.

03/26/2025

Way of the Shepherd was one of the first films the PEFF Committee selected for the 2025 Festival. You all will be able to see it virtually on peff.eventive.org starting April 7!

03/25/2025

Some films will only be available on our virtual platform, PEFF.eventive.org. Holding Back the Tide is an excellent film with a local twist -NYT wrote, "A Film That Makes the Stationary Lives of Oysters Into a Wondrous Tale"