Following its selection for the Wildlife Film Festival Rotterdam, we’re excited to share that Urban Persistence has also been officially selected for the Innsbruck Nature Film Festival (INFF) in Austria!
Even more exciting: the film has been nominated for Best Short Film for Kids, a category that celebrates engaging, age-appropriate storytelling for younger audiences.
Urban Persistence captures the delicate balance between life and death in an unusual setting, following a hamster’s relentless pursuit to ensure the next generation endures. The film is grounded in behavioral ecology but told through a lens that kids can relate to.
The film has been professionally dubbed in German, making it fully accessible for Austrian school audiences. It will be screened at INFF on Sunday, October 12th at 03:00 PM.
This year, INFF received over 450 submissions from around the world, so we’re incredibly proud to be among the selected few. To see a film about small city creatures resonate in such an international setting, and with a young audience in mind, feels like a huge step forward in our mission to bring science to life through film.
Whether you’re in Rotterdam or Innsbruck, we hope you’ll join us in celebrating these stories and the animals that inspire them.