Sustainability

Our goal is to encourage students to sustainably acquire subject-specific, artistic, and scientific knowledge, skills, and perspectives and to enable them to tackle new challenges in a collaborative and interdisciplinary manner. In this context, we attach great importance to promoting their interest in new insights and experiences as well as critical (self-)reflection. In addition to providing students with subject-specific expertise, degree programs also aim at identifying, analyzing, and evaluating the ecological, social, cultural, economic, and political challenges of the present and future.

The Film University aims at making life on campus eco-friendly, resource-efficient, family-friendly, gender-equal, inclusive, health-friendly, and diverse. Our campus is characterized by harmonious, fair, and equitable interaction between university members, an orientation to the principle of global justice, and a future-oriented approach to the environment and natural resources.

In the film and television industry, green production offers an enormous potential for CO2 savings. For this reason, the Film University supports sustainable film production, e.g., as a member of the "Green Film Initiative". The initiative provides information on environmentally friendly film production and connects filmmakers who produce, or would like to produce, films in a more ecologically sustainable manner with climate scientists, experts involved in other initiatives, and activists in the different film crafts. Meanwhile, producers, film support initiatives, and media politics have discovered "green film production" and encourage filmmakers to voluntarily produce in a more sustainable manner. Major players in the German film industry have already set a good example, showing that producing films in an efficient and environmentally friendly manner is possible without increasing costs.