The Moving Waters Film Festival (MWFF) featuring several award-winning international films and expert talks will be held at the Alliance Francaise on February 16 and 17.

According to a press note, the MWFF explores all that makes ours a blue planet — the rivers, lakes, oceans and the life they support.

For the third year running, the event will have talks by conservationists, researchers, activists, artists and citizens on issues that affect the aquatic environment.

The Puducherry event will have a selection of visually-appealing, hard-hitting films and expert talks to help the audience navigate these tricky waters.

2019 shortlist

The 2019 shortlist features, amongst others, Jeff Orlowski’s Chasing Coral, a story about a team of divers, photographers and scientists on an adventure to understand the decline of coral reefs around the world and to reveal the underwater mysteries to the world, NRS films’ The Coast and Cascada and DamNation, by Ben Knight and Travis Rummel about the state of dams across America and the changing attitudes towards them.

Speakers including acclaimed nature and conservation filmmaker Shekar Dattari, Chaitanya Krishna from InSeason Fish, Aurofilio Schiavina, a Puducherry native and Suneha Jagannathan will participate in the two-day event.