Kriti: a development praxis and communication team

🌱🎬 EcoReels 2026 would not have been possible without the incredible community that stood behind it.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone from Kriti Film Club, who supported the festival through our fundraising marathon. Your contributions and belief in the importance of environmental storytelling helped make this edition a reality.

We are also deeply grateful to Alliance Française de Delhi for opening their doors to the 18th EcoReels Film Festival. For providing a welcoming space where filmmakers, audiences, students, practitioners, and communities could come together to watch films, exchange ideas, and engage in meaningful conversations.

While these contributions have helped us immensely, we are still short of resources to cover festival costs and bring these films and conversations to more communities. If you can, please consider contributing and helping us keep this work going.

https://milaap.org/fundraisers/crowd-fund-kriti-film-club (international & domestic)
Domestic only: http://razorpay.me/

Festivals are built not only by those on stage and screen, but by the many people and institutions that support them behind the scenes. Thank you for being part of the journey.

With gratitude,�Team EcoReels 🌿✨

To everyone who joined us at the 18th EcoReels Film Festival — Thank you 🌱

Over two days, audiences from across Delhi and beyond filled our screening halls with curiosity and thoughtful engagement. Thank you for watching films with openness, staying back for conversations, asking important questions, and sharing your own experiences and perspectives.

A special thank you to the many community audiences who joined us from different organisations, collectives, educational institutions, and grassroot groups. Your participation enriched the festival and reminded us that environmental conversations are strongest when they bring together diverse voices, and experiences.

EcoReels spirit was made possible by every audience member who showed up, listened, questioned, and engaged.

Thank you for spending these two days with us and for being part of the conversations that continue long after the screenings end.

As a festival that is entirely volunteer-run, EcoReels would not be possible without the generosity and care of so many people who come together each year to make it happen!

EcoReels remains deeply shaped by our Festival Director, Aanchal Kapur’s vision, creating spaces where cinema, social justice, and environmental engagement can come together. Her commitment continues to guide the festival & help carry it forward.

Special appreciation goes to Ayushi Alva who helped programme this festival and organised this edition with core team members Shivani Monga, leading on the ground; Kritika Mattoo who played an integral role in organising and facilitating with Gayatri Srivastava, Lata Shankar Chandra, and Lucky Neog. A special thank you also to Pragya Shorey for creating the festival’s poster and visual designs, which helped shape the identity of this year’s edition.

To our core volunteers, Shiwani Nailwal and Shivani Kumar, thank you for your dedication and energy, throughout the festival.
Thank you to our volunteers for your contributions and Manzil media lab team for documenting the festival.

A heartfelt thank you to the wider Kriti team, Lata and Umesh, for their continued guidance.
A special thank you to Nidhi Gupta for being a constant source of support behind the scenes.

Festivals are built by communities, and EcoReels is fortunate to have such a generous one around it.

🎬🌱 To all the filmmakers who shared their films with us…

Thank you for trusting EcoReels with your films, for bringing urgent and inspiring stories to our screens, and for helping us create a space where environmental issues could be explored through the power of cinema.

It was a pleasure to welcome many of you to the festival, to hear about your journeys, engage in conversations around your work, and witness audiences connect so deeply with the stories you brought to life.

Every film added something unique to this edition of EcoReels and reminded us why storytelling remains such an important tool for understanding the world around us. We hope you continue making and stories that matter. We look forward to crossing paths again in the future!

— With gratitude, from all of us at EcoReels✨

🌱🎬 Day 2 is in full swing at the 18th EcoReels Film Festival

It’s been a morning filled with powerful films, thoughtful conversations, and inspiring exchanges between filmmakers and audiences.

If you’re looking for a way to escape the heat, spend the afternoon with stories that help us understand the environmental challenges shaping our lives.

There are still plenty of screenings, filmmaker interactions coming up later today.

On till 9:30 PM
📍 Alliance Française de Delhi

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