Societies worldwide are confronted with escalating risks from hazards such as floods, landslides, earthquakes, and water pollution, as well as mounting social pressures driven by migration, population growth, and urbanisation. In response, we are enhancing our resilience to these challenges through innovative local initiatives, such as community-driven action, nature-based solutions, and novel financial strategies. The Exploring Risk Visual Arts Festival 2025 is about documenting, capturing, and inspiring the transition from being impacted by hazards to being resilient. 

Exploring Risk 2025 (see exploringrisk.org.uk for past years) explores stories of increasing resilience through visual arts approaches. We are looking for visual depictions of how communities and individuals adapt, endure, and thrive amid complex global shifts from environmental to societal crises. These could be stories from global scientists, practitioners, and artists' perspectives about our responses to, for example, floods or climate migration. 

We welcome short, one to three-minute videos, still photography, artwork, comics, and computer graphics. Participating in the Exploring Risk Festival offers an opportunity to showcase your perspective on resilience in today’s complex world in a global collection of visual narratives. Whether you are a scientist, practitioner, student, artist, or anyone engaged in risk research, Exploring Risk 2025 allows you to engage a diverse audience and contribute to a broader dialogue on the challenges and possibilities of resilience in the face of global change.

Awards & Prizes

The publicly visible Exploring Risk 2025 website will indicate the winning entries; each winner will receive a PDF certificate.

Rules & Terms

Videos can be in any visual style, including but not limited to, photographic video or computer-generated animation.

Videos must be between 60 and 180 seconds long.

Any video format is acceptable that is supported by YouTube / Vimeo (MP4, MOV, WMV, AVI, FLV, and M4V)

Videos must be of good quality and have a minimum resolution of at least 720P (HD). Higher resolutions, including 1080P, 4K, 6K, and 8K, are also accepted and encouraged.

The audio needs to be of excellent quality to enable the automation of captioning and translations.

Although not required, if subtitles are used, please do these in English

The audio can be in any spoken language supported by Vimeo / YouTube

Silent films are welcome

The festival considers all visual styles
2 Reviews
Overall Rating
Quality
Value
Communication
Hospitality
Networking
  • Ben David Garza

    We are so grateful to have our film, Najil Aak, included in the IHRR Exploring Risk Film Festival. The communication with festival host, Dr. Sim Reaney, and follow-up has been warm and efficient.

    May 2022
    Helpful
  • tebogo chologi

    Hello i am Tebogo from South Africa,an independent filmmaker.The experience at the Exploring risk film festival was great even thou i did not attend physically.It is so great that an ordinary filmmaker like me could get recognition in such a prestigious festival.Thank you for an award also its awesome.

    May 2022
    Helpful