Exploring Risk Film Festival 2025

The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience at Durham University, UK, Center for Disaster Studies, Institute of Engineering (CDS-IoE), Tribhuvan University, Nepal, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, India, are proud to present the Exploring Risk Film Festival 2025!

We asked for submissions of one to three-minute videos showing 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.

A panel from the host universities selected a long list of 15 videos for the festival, and then each university chose a winner. On Tuesday, 20 May, we hosted the online Exploring Risk 2025 Film Screening, which included a screening of all the selected films and an awards ceremony.

Winning films:

Wreckage by the Roshi River‘ by Ananda Kumar Shrestha chosen by the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi.

Living in the shadow of a landslide‘ by Kiran Bhandari chosen by Center for Disaster Studies, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University.

The flood‘ by David Tessier chosen by the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience at Durham University.

Selected films:

Film nameDirectorCountrySubject
Wreckage by the Roshi RiverAnanda Kumar ShresthaNepalMountain disasters
Road cut slope design guidelinesEllen RobsonNepalMountain disasters
Living in the shadow of a landslideKiran BhandariNepalMountain disasters
Life Amidst the LandslidesKiran BhandariNepalMountain disasters
The DreamAlireza SadeghiIranClimate change
Vargem das FloresTiago ShiamkurBrazilClimate change
Counter Climate Crisis, Save Coral ReefsIntje HajriFijiClimate change
Between the polarsYunus TopalTurkeyClimate change
ECOMIXIvo PinkUKPollution
Ladakh through the eyes of a motorcycle: Cost of progressSerena AuroraIndiaDevelopment
The floodDavid TessierFranceDevelopment
L.I.F.EVickey GyaduIndiaMountain disasters
LIFE in HimachalAsmit KumarIndiaMountain disasters
Our community, Our SafetyShuvangi KhadkaNepalMountain disasters
Mountains in PerilPrabin KhadkaNepalMountain disasters