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

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

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