special festival events
14 - 20 April
SHIFTING HORIZONS
Our cultural program aims to deepen the ecological and social dialogue initiated by our festival. Featuring an Eco Expo and a live audiovisual concert, it offers rich material for contemplation and discussion. Through woven textures, shifting sands, and sonic landscapes, the Eco Expo explores land as memory, movement and sound. Weaving, erosion, and sound shape stories of strength, change, and place—inviting us to reflect on connection and resistance.
live audiovisual show
Wednesday 16 April | 21:00 | Studio/K
As we cycle through exhaustion, apathy, hope, and collapse, we slip into the fractures of late-capitalist existence. orah’s distorted visuals bleed into Chinnamasta’s sonic echoes, decays, and glitches. This immersive A/V performance follows these traces, asking—can we coexist or resist? Will we dream, or will we disappear?
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fundraiser for Gaza
screening: TO A LAND UNKNOWNStudio/K | screening + after talk | 18:45 | April 17
Panel on migrant justice, within both the local (Dutch) context, the situation in the Mediterranean region, and with a specific focus on the realities faced by Palestinian refugees, with Hidaya from Amsterdam City Rights, Roos from MiGreat, and Esme from No Name Kitchen.
Kriterion | Food by Palestine Kitchen + screening | | April 17
Artist Ahmad Mallah will give an introduction before the film to speak from the perspective of a Palestinian artist and maker living and working in the diaspora. The film starts at 21:00, while you can get food from Palestina Kitchen from 19:00.
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ECO EXPO - shifting horizons
Exhibition tours
16 april | Studio/K | 19:30-21:00The three artists will show you their work and tell you more about their ideas,
visions and inspiration. After this you can join the
AV-show in SK3.
︎︎︎ the eco expo is free to visit︎︎︎
Walkshop: SONGS OF THE HORIZON
On Saturday 19th of April Werner de Valk and Sifra Coulet organise a Walkshop. In this walking workshop, you can visit some locations that are part of the artwork Songs of the Horizon by Werner de Valk, which will also be shown at Sprouts. We’ll walk with the artist to Flevopark and listen to some fragments while witnessing the current corresponding horizons. This will set the ground for a conversation in the park about the impact of digital progress on the experience of space, both environmental and psychological.
Saturday 19 April | 16:00 – 18:00
Location: start at Studio/K
Want to attend the free walkshop? Let us know that you want to join via sproutsfilmfestival@gmail.com
repair cafe
On the 15th of April you can come to Studio/K with your broken-down electronics that have been sitting in the back of the closet because they need fixing but you don’t know how. The handymen from Repair Café de Meevaart will be ready with their tools at Studio/K from 19:00 and will teach you everything they know about fixing your electronics and in the meantime fix your broken items together with you for free!
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Festival locations
Studio/K
Timorplein 62
Amsterdam Oost
Filmtheater Kriterion
Roetersstraat 170
Amsterdam Oost
De Uitkijk
Prinsengracht 452
Amsterdam Centrum