Nature inFocus 2025 Bengaluru: A festival celebrating the wild

Just implicit a decennary ago, a festival to observe the enactment of Nature photographers was organised. Titled Nature inFocus, it aimed astatine bringing unneurotic respective artistes to collaborate alternatively than conscionable grounds their work. Little did the squad cognize that this festival would germinate “into thing acold much all-encompassing, a spot wherever individuals from assorted professions travel unneurotic due to the fact that of their communal appreciation of the earthy world”, says laminitis Rohit Varma. Now, the two-day lawsuit besides brings unneurotic filmmakers, storytellers, scientists, conservationists, activists, journalists, legislators, eco-influencers, students, and naturalists.

The upcoming variation slated for adjacent week is each acceptable to big these experts by mode of talks, sheet discussions, movie screenings, workshops, a photography exhibition, creation installations, and a euphony performance by Indian Ocean.

Rohit says the festival — themed connected Blurring Boundaries — has been offering caller concepts, tales, and experiences, and 2025 is nary different. “Building connected 10 years of discussions, ingenuity, and community, this year’s lawsuit feels peculiarly breathtaking arsenic it introduces caller viewpoints done speakers, films, and talks. These components are tied unneurotic by this year’s taxable that invites viewers to recognise the adjacent transportation betwixt our lives and the earthy world,” helium says of the variation they started organising six months ago. 

Elaborating connected the theme, Rohit says it acknowledges that Nature is simply a portion of our lives, cities, and cultures alternatively than existing extracurricular of them. “The taxable besides recognises the predominant overlap betwixt quality and chaotic spaces, demonstrating that coexistence is simply a information of life. By highlighting tales of individuals, groups, and adjacent municipality areas that are intricately entwined with the earthy world, this taxable hopes to service arsenic a reminder that conservation is not constricted to far-off forests but alternatively is ingrained successful the places we telephone home.”

Speakers astatine the lawsuit see Sudhir Shivaram, Aathira Perinchery, Vidya Athreya, Dhritiman Mukherjee, Romulus Whitaker, Janaki Lenin, and the Bedi Brothers. Rohit’s not-to-miss itinerary for this twelvemonth inclues movie screenings, which helium says are an fantabulous mode to spot however stories of Nature are being told done assorted lenses. And if you are a first-timer, “attend a fewer talks to perceive from salient figures successful wildlife and conservation; and research the Photography Awards Exhibition, and drawback the Bengaluru premiere of Wild Tamil Nadu, a movie that beautifully captures the State’s bonzer biodiversity.” Also portion of the line-up are screenings of Cauvery: A River of Life and respective different abbreviated films that item unsocial conservation stories from crossed the country.

A caller summation this twelvemonth is the Conscious Corner pavilion that showcases conservation projects and sustainable brands. The Naturalist Academy, India Hemp Organics, Nature Conservation Foundation, Current Conservation, Tinctoria, and ReCharka are conscionable a fewer of the companies and organisations that volition beryllium showcased this year, says Rohit, who plans connected making this a regular diagnostic astatine aboriginal festivals. “Visitors person the accidental to larn astir and interact with goods, concepts, and movements that enactment an environmentally conscious mode of surviving astatine the pavilion,” helium adds.

On November 15 and 16 astatine Jayamahal Palace. Tickets connected festival.natureinfocus.in/2025/