Bi-annual Festival

Eden Robinson and Bénédicte Meillon laugh during the panel discussion "Writing Nature: From a Female POV — How it could save the world" on October 20, 2019, at the Nature: Through Her Eyes Festival. © Stephane Ferrer Yulianti

bi-annual festival

By giving practitioners in the natural world an opportunity to gather and share their knowledge, the Nature Through Her Eyes festival supports women filmmakers and photographers across education, access, and advocacy.

The bi-annual festival promotes new narrative projects through collaborations with industry leaders, workshops, masterclasses, and seminars. The first edition was held in Perpignan, France, and the second in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2025 the festial will travel to Arusha, Tanzania.

Online versions of the festival, with recordings from the in-person events, are run yearly on Women’s Day, March 8th. These virtual events enable Nature Through Her Eyes to deliver content and training to women worldwide.

PERPIGNAN, 2019

The inaugural edition of the Nature Through Her Eyes Festival was held in Perpignan, France, in 2019 and explored women’s perspectives in portraying the natural world and why it is essential for society as a whole.

2019 program →

CAPE TOWN, 2022

In November 2022, the second NTHE Festival took place in Cape Town. It was supported by French and South African government organizations and focused on bioacoustics and sound in natural history filmmaking. It included an ocean trip with hydrophones, a series of impactful talks led by African women, and sold-out screenings of films by female directors at the Labia Theatre. A photography exhibition was inaugurated at the French Institute and ran for over four weeks.

2022 program →

Arusha, 2024

The 2024 edition is set to take place in Arusha, Tanzania, and the 2026 festival in Bosnia Herzegovina. The NTHE Festival is a public event and is free to attend.