Sprouts Film Festival
ecocinema & debut films
7
- 12
MAY 2024
In times of a glitching world, with weather extremes and inhumane conflicts intensifying, it can be tempting to avert your gaze. Instead, Sprouts wants to make the cinema a site for peaceful protest by showing newly released ecocinema and socially critical debut films. All selected features and shorts are fiction, because it is our belief that through the power of imagination we can alter our behaviour for the better and rethink our relationship with the more-than-human world. We are here to make you wonder, to inform, to spark resistance and to nurture fresh talent.
SproutsFF24, our third edition, will be bigger than ever. Our festival locations this year are Studio/K, MACA, Kriterion and Zone2Source. Want to learn more about our SproutsFF24 programme, which also includes a free Eco Expo, a queer club night and a live ecological AV-show? Follow us on
︎ @sproutsfilmfestival and Letterboxd @sproutsff.
About the festival
Everyday our lives are flooded by crises, not least of all a seemingly ever-growing climate crisis. It is therefore no surprise that Dutch society has seen a proliferation of protests. Sprouts wants to make the cinema a site of protest by addressing these crises at hand through fiction film, because the power
of the imagination can help us battle polarization and foresee effective ways of living together harmoniously with one another and the
more-than-human world.
As a festival we strive towards a greener and more diverse alternative to the regular films on offer in Amsterdam. Cinema can make tangible how our current global extinction crisis is never isolated. Battling racism and xenofobia, fighting for LGBTIQ+ and women’s rights, decolonizing Europe, adressing mental health, these issues and more all intersect and find a voice at Sprouts.
French philosopher Gaston Bachelard wrote of our imagination as being botanical. Like a rooted tree that can connect the sky and the earth, the real and the dreamed. At Sprouts we could not agree more. Fiction makes up our festival DNA. That many of our selected eco films are also first works attests to the importance felt by a new generation of filmmakers to better take care of what we have. Sprouts wishes to nurture these brave trailblazers. We hope that you too will give them your full support.
Throughout the year Sprouts is dedicated to offer more. This website functions as a running archive voor fictional ecocinema in order to broaden the category, because there is more than The Day After Tomorrow (2004). Now we need it more than ever. We also organise monthly screenings at Studio/K.
Contact & info
︎ sproutsfilmfestival@gmail.com
︎ Instagram
︎ Letterboxd
︎ LinkedIn
Festival locations:
Studio/K
Timorplein 62
Amsterdam Oost
MACA | Moving Arts Centre Amsterdam
Ms. van Riemsdijkweg 61
Amsterdam Noord
Filmtheater Kriterion
Roetersstraat 170
Amsterdam Oost
Zone2Source
Amstelpark 4
Amsterdam Zuid
Movie W
Wilhelminaweg 3A
Wageningen
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Artistic Director Thomas Streekstra
Managing Director Veerle van Lieshout
Board Elin Boijens (President), René Wolf (Secretary),
Jeroen Groot (Treasurer)
KvK 92198600 - Stichting Sprouts Film Festival
Managing Director Veerle van Lieshout
Board Elin Boijens (President), René Wolf (Secretary),
Jeroen Groot (Treasurer)
KvK 92198600 - Stichting Sprouts Film Festival
