BNP Paribas Green Film Festival – international ecological film festival

BNP Paribas Green Film Festival is a festival for people interested in ecology and constantly expanding their knowledge on the subject. It is an international event held in Krakow since 2018. This year it will take place from August 13 to 20, 2023.

BNP Paribas Green Film Festival is the only ecological film festival in Poland and one of the largest in the world, created in 2018 by Piotr Biedroń and Grzegorz Dukielski – founders of the Green Festival Foundation. During the festival, nearly 50 ecological-themed films are shown. Additionally, screenings are accompanied by meetings with creators, UN experts, and local climate activists. There are also numerous ecological workshops, educational meetings, exhibitions, lectures, and artistic activities aimed at enhancing a lifestyle in line with green values.

Between August 13 and 20, it's worth visiting the festival town located under Wawel, taking a free deckchair, and participating in discussions or lectures. The documentaries presented this year will address topics such as climate change and the mission to save the planet, the traps of civilizational growth, the problem of disappearing water, the future of nutrition, depleting resources, and above all, what next for homo destructus. The best films will be awarded by a jury composed of Tomasz Raczek, Ewa Ewart, and Paweł Deląg.

Below is the festival program summary and more information can be found here

• Day 1 of the BNP Paribas Green Film Festival is dedicated to the health of the planet and its inhabitants. We will consider how to design cities for comfortable, healthy living in harmony with nature. Has the widespread use of antibiotics caused the end of medicine as we know it? Are we threatened by another pandemic similar to the one from 2019-2021? What is life like in Indian Delhi where the air dust concentration is the highest in the world, and will this be our future?
• Day 2 of the festival will be dedicated to transport. We will consider how the Transport of the Future should look. Currently, transport generates nearly 25% of total CO2 emissions in the European Union. The trend is increasing as the number of cars grows and people fly more often and farther. In what direction can transport develop to not be deadly to the climate?
• Day 3 will focus on biodiversity. We will talk about the importance of biodiversity for humans and other Earth’s inhabitants, endangered ecosystems, and actions that can be taken to protect them.
• Day 4 will discuss food and its impact on the environment. What is sustainable agriculture? How devastating for the environment are industrial animal farming and the activities of large food corporations, so-called locust companies? What is our diet's impact on the environment and how will our eating habits look in the future?
• Day 5’s topic will be energy transformation. We will consider if there is an ideal way of obtaining energy. Which type of currently available energy is best for the environment? Will nuclear energy save us from the climate disaster?
• Day 6 will focus on consumption, which in today's world is a measure of quality of life. Those who do not consume are not important to the world. We are supposed to consume a lot and often without regard to actual needs or ecological and social costs. However, a system based on permanent growth cannot exist in a finite world where resources are limited. When will we come to our senses?
• Day 7 of the BNP Paribas Green Film Festival will feature various films from around the world presenting climate change issues.