BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:25418@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Sprouts Film Festival: Aquatic Short Stories DTSTAMP:20260730T194049Z DTSTART:20260821T180000Z DTEND:20260821T204500Z DESCRIPTION:On Friday 21 August\, Framer Framed invites Sprouts Film Festiv al for a special\nevening of short films reflecting on the exhibition Wild Waters: Dams and Deltas\nAfter Modernity. Film screenings and conversatio ns explore our relationship with\nwater\, aquatic histories and speculativ e fiction.\n\nSince 2022\, the interdisciplinary Sprouts Film Festival has focused on fictional\necocinema and socially critical debut films. In a w orld increasingly marked by\nclimate extremes and inhumane conflicts\, it can be tempting to look away.\nInstead\, Sprouts sees cinema as a space fo r peaceful protest. The festival’s\nfilm selection reflects its belief tha t the power of imagination can inspire\nchange and push us to rethink our relationship with the more-than-human world.\nSprouts aims to provoke curi osity\, inform\, inspire resistance and nurture\nemerging talents.\n\nThe first part of the programme consists of screenings of short films Beneath\ nWhich Rivers Flow and Last Night I Dreamed It Was Raining Fish. Following the\nsecond screening\, moderator and artistic director of Sprouts Thomas Streekstra\nwill be joined (online) by director Shraddha Khanna for a Q&A .\n\nThe second part consists of screenings of the short films Acid City a nd Wild\nSummon. This will be followed by a conversation between moderator Thomas\nStreekstra and interdisciplinary artist and artistic researcher E rik Peters.\nTheir work The World’s Green is Rotting Lime\, is an ecopoeti c audiovisual\ninstallation that speculates on future ecologies emerging f rom plastic\npollution. The work follows the discovery of a new parasitic flower\nmorphospecies that has evolved to adapt to the infiltrating amount s of\nmicroplastics found in the earth’s layers.\n\nProgramme\n\n20:00 Doo rs open\n20:30 First part\n\nBeneath Which Rivers Flow by Ali Yahya\n2025 | Iraq | 16’\nIn the tranquil marshlands of southern Iraq\, young Ibrahim lovingly tends to his\nbuffalo\, but disruption looms on the horizon.\n\nL ast Night I Dreamed It Was Raining Fish by Shraddha Khanna\n2025 | India | 17’\nIn Worli Koliwada\, one of Mumbai’s oldest fishing villages\, the se afaring Koli\ncommunity strives to safeguard its harmonious relationship w ith the sea\, even as\nthe city steadily engulfs its surroundings.\n\n21:3 0 Second part\n\nAcid City by Jack Wedge & Will Freudenheim\n2026 | USA | 12’\nA self-sufficient island city rises from a vast acidic ocean beneath apocalyptic\nred skies. In this travelogue from the future\, Acid City’s e clectic residents\ntake life as it comes.\n\nWild Summon by Karni Arieli & Saul Freed\n2023 | United Kingdom | 14’\nA confrontational spin on the na tural history documentary\, depicting the\ndramatic life cycle of the wild salmon through the body of a woman.\n\nSign up here [https://framerframed .stager.co/shop/default/events/111684558].\n\nInfo & Credits\n\nFramer Fra med is supported by the Ministry of Education\, Culture and Science\;\nthe Amsterdam Fund for the Arts\; the City of Amsterdam\; and the VriendenLot erij\nFund.\n\nLocation\n\nFramer Framed\nOranje-Vrijstaatkade 71\n1093KS\ , Amsterdam URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/sprouts-film-festival-aquatic-short-sto ries GEO:52.3568405;4.9323245 LOCATION:Framer Framed - Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71\, 1093KS Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-oost,community,dapperbuurt,documentary,eclectic,ecolog y,exhibition,festivals,film,stories X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:On Friday 21 August, Framer Framed invites Spr outs Film Festival for a special evening of short films reflecting on the exhibition Wild Waters: Dams and Deltas After Modernity. Film scr eenings and conversations explore our relationship with water, aquatic his tories and speculative fiction.

Since 2022, the interdisciplinary Sp routs Film Festival has focused on fictional ecocinema and socially c ritical debut films. In a world increasingly marked by climate extremes an d inhumane conflicts, it can be tempting to look away. Instead, Sprouts se es cinema as a space for peaceful protest. The festival’s film selection r eflects its belief that the power of imagination can inspire change and pu sh us to rethink our relationship with the more-than-human world. Sprouts aims to provoke curiosity, inform, inspire resistance and nurture emerging talents.

The first part of the programme consists of screenings of short films Beneath Which Rivers Flow and Last Night I Dreame d It Was Raining Fish. Following the second screening, moderator and artistic director of Sprouts Thomas Streekstra will be joined (online) by director Shraddha Khanna for a Q&A.

The second part consists of screenings of the short films Acid City and Wild Summon. This will be followed by a conversation between moderator Thomas Streekst ra and interdisciplinary artist and artistic researcher Erik Peters. Their work The World’s Green is Rotting Lime, is an ecopoetic audiovis ual installation that speculates on future ecologies emerging from plastic pollution. The work follows the discovery of a new parasitic flower morph ospecies that has evolved to adapt to the infiltrating amounts of micropla stics found in the earth’s layers.

Programme

20:00 D oors open
20:30 First part

Beneath Which Ri vers Flow by Ali Yahya
2025 | Iraq | 16’
In the tranquil marshlands of southern Iraq, young Ibrahim lovingly tends to his buffalo, but disruption looms on the horizon.

Last Night I D reamed It Was Raining Fish by Shraddha Khanna
2025 | Indi a | 17’
In Worli Koliwada, one of Mumbai’s oldest fishing vil lages, the seafaring Koli community strives to safeguard its harmonious re lationship with the sea, even as the city steadily engulfs its surrounding s.

21:30 Second part

Acid City by Ja ck Wedge & Will Freudenheim
2026 | USA | 12’
 A self-sufficient island city rises from a vast acidic ocean beneath apoca lyptic red skies. In this travelogue from the future, Acid City’s eclectic residents take life as it comes.

Wild Summon by Karni Arie li & Saul Freed
2023 | United Kingdom | 14’
A confrontational spin on the natural history documentary, depicting the dr amatic life cycle of the wild salmon through the body of a woman.

Si gn up here.

Info & Credits

Framer Framed is supp orted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; the Amsterdam Fun d for the Arts; the City of Amsterdam; and the VriendenLoterij Fund.

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