The (un)bearable lightness of media. Critical approaches to sustainability in film and audiovisual production, circulation and preservation

Sustainability has entered the film festival circuit as a new horizon of meaning and practice. On the one hand, the environmental transition is a contemporary trend in the European film festival context, leading to a rethinking in the exploitation of resources and to the reduction of carbon emissions toward climate-neutral events. On the other hand, film festivals constitute a space of discursive elaboration that has developed guidelines and parameters and has opened this notion beyond environmental issues. This contribution intends to investigate how the European film festival circuit addresses the issue of sustainability and if this is leading to a new phase in the evolution of film festivals.