The UK Green Film Festival (UKGFF) 2013 returns for a third year ready to inform, entertain, challenge and inspire a UK-wide audience of cinema-goers.

Sponsored by Friends of the Earth the UK’s only environmental film festival, UKGFF will be held in more than 50 screenings, across 15 cities nationwide including Clapham Picturehouse.

The screening programme brings local and global environmental issues, such as waste, climate change, sustainable cities and technology, to a wider audience and offers seven feature-length films, including three UK premieres.

Programme highlights include the UK premiere of Oscar-nominated director Markus Imhoof’s visually stunning look at the world bee crisis More Than Honey, multi-award-winning documentary Trashed featuring Jeremy Irons, two very different love stories blurring the lines between the real and the imagined Valley of Saints and Future My Love as well as UK Premieres of Erik Schmitt’s quirky and surprising green-doc meets road-movie Solar Taxi.

Daniel Beck, festival director, says: “The UK Green Film Festival provides a platform for films that deal with environmental issues, not just the global issues of climate change and energy but also our personal connection to our environment, how we can better understand and ultimately protect the world around us.”

Discussion, interaction and the opportunity to challenge and explore issues raised by the films is at the heart of the festival with talks, discussions and Q&As throughout.

Joe Jenkins, from Friends of the Earth, says: “As film is an immersive and entertaining medium, it is the perfect vehicle for inspiring and engaging even more people to take action on the issues facing us and our planet.”

For the past two years this annual film festival has been showcasing some of the best films and documentaries that highlight climate change and other environmental issues.

All films screened at the festival are in competition for UK Green Film Festival Awards, including the Palme Verte for best film and UKGFF Audience Award.

The winners will be announced at the closing night on June 8.

Clapham Picturehouse, Clapham High Street; Solar Taxi, June 2, 4pm; Big Boys Gone Bananas, June 6, 9pm; Peak, June 8, 6pm; £10.50 each; picturehouses.co.uk.