The International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival (KLEFF) is Malaysia’s homegrown environmental film festival for the past 13 years. Conceptualised and organised by a not-for-profit environmental organisation, EcoKnights, the Festival is a platform to facilitate the building of a nation of ecologically conscious businesses, individuals, and communities through on-ground activities and film screenings focused on critical environmental issues and stories.
2020 marks a new start for KLEFF as the world came to face the COVID-19 pandemic together. In order to address the physical limitations, KLEFF embarked on a new journey as the first digital environmental film festival in Malaysia last year. With new aspiration as a digital festival, KLEFF will once again be organized digitally to ensure its role as a media platform for filmmaking, story-telling and knowledge-sharing in the global transformational journey towards sustainability - in society, economy and environment.
Returning from 2020 to continue its advocacy in climate change with a call-to-action theme: Climate Change (Yourself), KLEFF seeks for thought-provoking films that inspire and empower people not only in climate change but also on a myriad of worldwide environmental topics.
Climate Change (Yourself) boils down to self-initiated changes that we can make on different levels and capacities. It's all about changing mindsets and habits, starting from ourselves. The theme encompasses films that cover the ecosystem of climate change, hence inter-related with other environmental, social and economic topics. With that, we welcome all sorts of film submissions that fall within the category of the theme this year.
The festival committee will be curating a selection of films of different genres with strong audience appeal - Documentaries, narratives, shorts, children’s films, experimental films, animations and public service announcement.
1. Best Feature Film/Full length Documentary Award
2. Best Short Documentary/TV Documentary Award
3. Best Short Film Award
4. Best Animation Award
5. Best Public Service Announcement (PSA) Award
6. Special Jury Award