Images Cinema announces the 2025 Earth Month Film Festival, a celebration of our home, the Earth. 2025’s theme is Animals & Us, thinking about how people care for animals and animals care for us, from both an agricultural standpoint as well as from a therapeutic standpoint, as well as how caring for and protecting key species allows animals to care for the planet.  The festival consists of four documentaries and two feature films shown between March 25 and April 22.

Singing Back the Buffalo – Richly visualised and deeply uplifting, Singing Back the Buffalo is an epic reimagining of North America through the lens of buffalo consciousness and a potent dream of what is within our grasp.  In a time of immense environmental degradation and global uncertainty, the buffalo can lead us to a better tomorrow. After a dark recent history, the buffalo herds of North America are awaiting their return, aided by dedicated Indigenous activists, leaders and communities, including award-winning Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard (nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up). Together with Blackfoot Elder Leroy Little Bear, Hubbard weaves an intimate story of humanity’s connections to buffalo and eloquently reveals how their return to the Great Plains can indeed usher in a new era of sustainability and balance. On her journey, Hubbard explores the challenges faced by buffalo allies and shares the positive steps already taken towards the ultimate – but uncertain – goal of buffalo rematriation.