*THURSDAY*
Disco Boy by Giacomo Abbruzzese
eco competition | Dutch premiere | 2023 | France, Italy, Belgium, Poland | 92’
After joining the French Foreign Legion young Belarusian Aleksei departs for the Niger Delta to protect oil companies' investments against revolutionary activist Jomo. Awarded at the Berlinale for its visual impact, Abbruzzese’s haunting ode to Beau Travail poetically contrasts a brutalised Nigerian landscape with the Parisian club scene by means of a pulsating score and European cinema posterboy Franz Rogowski.
Sprouts Film Festival 2024 | May 9-12
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? Go to sproutsfilmfestival.com or follow us on Instagram @sproutsfilmfestival and Letterboxd @sproutsff.
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Eco Shorts POLLUTED
*This Eco Shorts program will be accompanied by two introductions: by Rens de Jong (NDSM Cleans Up, 10’) and Marianne Hendriks (about air pollution, 10’)
The Veiled City by Natalie Cubides-Brady
Dutch premiere | 2023 | United Kingdom | 13’
Archival footage of London’s Great Smog of 1952 speaks to us in this eerie final warning from a dystopian future.
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Flatastic by Alice Saey
2024 | France, Netherlands | 17’
Manta rays, fed up with our plastics, start a revolution in this symphonic eruption of sound, bright colours and anthropomorphism.
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Dérive by Fanny Chesnel
Dutch premiere | 2023 | France | 17’
A toilet floating in the Seine becomes the centre of attention in three heated arguments between passers-by at the shore.
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Wild Summon by Karni Arieli, Saul Freed
2023 | United Kingdom | 14’
Confrontational spin on the natural history documentary about the dramatic life cycle of the wild salmon, depicted as a woman.
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The Great Endeavor by Liam Young
Dutch premiere | 2023 | United States, Australia | 9’
Humans will need to decolonise the atmosphere on a planetary scale in order to avert the worst of climate change. Fans of Dune will be drawn to Young’s awe inspiring world building and sneak peak into the foreseeable future, accompanied by Lyra Pramuk’s sublime music. An imposing elevator pitch about what would be the most challenging engineering project ever undertaken.
****SATURDAY ****
LIVE AV SHOW: ANOTHER DEEP (TRY-OUT)
by Mark IJzerman & Sébastien Robert
Another Deep immersively explores the impending deepsea mining in Svalbard (Spitsbergen), along with the ensuing tensions on the island. Beyond industrialization and resource exploitation, climate change also threatens the region. IJzerman and Robert bring to life the ecological, geopolitical, and Indigenous implications of mining activities and aim to
initiate a nuanced discussion about this largely unseen process.
LIVE AV SHOW:LIVE AV SHOW: VAULT OF GLASS
by Jorijn de Jonge & Yopo
The Vault of Glass is a place unlike anywhere else. It serves as a meeting point between the past, present, and future. It is where all timelines converge and where every moment of time exists in one instance.
*This show will be accompanied by a screening of the film The Great Endeavor (9’), which is part of or free Eco Expo
**** SUNDAY ****
The End We Start From by Mahalia Belo
out of competition | 2023 | United Kingdom | 102’
A loving couple from London find their joy about a newborn child instantly rivalled by survival mode when floodwaters cause the derailment of British society. In Belo’s light version of the post-apocalypse, disaster mostly happens offscreen. Instead, she places emphasis on the strength of motherhood and will to move forward. A sensitive ecological debut dominated by Jodie Comer’s forceful performance.
*Before the screening there’ll be an award ceremony (20’) and a screening of the winning Eco Short (5’-28’)
Sprouts Film Festival 2024 | May 7-12
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? Go to sproutsfilmfestival.com or follow us on Instagram @sproutsfilmfestival and Letterboxd @sproutsff.
Eco Expo at MACA
free to visit
Thu. May 9 | 13:00 -19:30
Fri. May 10 | 13:00 - 19:30
Sat. May 11 | 15:00 -19:30
Sun. May 12 | 13:00 -17:00
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