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The experience behind 2. El and Fantasturka returns to Ankara as the Sustainers Film Festival

BASIN BÜLTENİ 01Ağustos 2026 | Ankara Nothing in cinema is single-use Born out of the experience of the team behind 2. El Film Festivali and Fantasturka – The Turkish Fantasy and Horror Film Festival, the Sustainers Film Festival will meet audiences at CerModern in Ankara on 7–8 November 2026. Organised by the Sustainers Culture and Ecology Association, the festival sets out to bring audiences newly made films alongside work that has screened before but never found enough vis

Most of what a shoot produces never makes it to the screen

Scenes cut in the edit. Sound recordings never used. Sets and costumes put into storage — or thrown out — once the shoot wraps. Projects left unfinished because the budget ran out. Films that screened at one festival and were never seen anywhere again. None of it is spoiled. It has simply fallen out of circulation. The Sustainers Film Festival is built on that distinction. The four strands of our programme are four different answers to the same question: what do we already ha

Since the day it was founded, the Sustainers Culture and Ecology Association has maintained a hands-on ecological practice alongside its cultural work.

We collect organic waste, produce compost and worm castings, and grow saplings with the fertiliser that comes out of it. That work has taught us the concrete meaning of a concept that usually stays abstract: waste is not a substance that exists on its own. It is the name a resource takes when it isn't directed to the right place. The Sustainers Film Festival was born as the cultural counterpart of that approach. We see a structural resemblance between a film falling out of ci

Filmmaking does not end with a finished film. Every production generates images, sound, sets, costumes, locations, ideas and an enormous amount of creative labour.

The Sustainers Film Festival holds that none of this is single-use. Alongside making room for new films, it returns to circulation the work that deserves to meet an audience again, and sets out to connect unfinished projects, unused footage and leftover production materials with new work.

Nothing in cinema is single-use.

At the Sustainers Film Festival, the story begins again. The red carpet, the sealed auditorium and the single-use material give way to nature, open air and zero waste. The same love of cinema continues as an entirely different experience. And whatever the screening leaves behind is not wasted — it becomes soil, and then a sapling.

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Nothing in cinema is single-use.

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Sustainable Development Goals

These eight goals are not a badge added to the festival poster after the fact; they are the logic the programme is built on. Within a framework that runs from quality education to climate action, from reduced inequalities to responsible production, we place cinema alongside nature, build awareness through storytelling, and bring artist and audience into the same experience. Sustainability is not a destination for us — it is the answer to how this festival was put together.

Sustainers Film Festival

The experience behind 2. El and Fantasturka returns to Ankara as the Sustainers Film Festival

Most of what a shoot produces never makes it to the screen

Since the day it was founded, the Sustainers Culture and Ecology Association has maintained a hands-on ecological practice alongside its cultural work.

​Filmmaking does not end with a finished film. Every production generates images, sound, sets, costumes, locations, ideas and an enormous amount of creative labour.

Sustainers Film Festival

Festival Supporters

Media Partners

Sustainers
Film
Festival

Filmmaking does not end with a finished film. Every production generates images, sound, sets, costumes, locations, ideas and an enormous amount of creative labour.

Sustainers
Film
Festival