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Carnaval Film Festival 2025

Join us at the Redspace @droog on Sunday, July 13, as we host one of the in-person screenings for the Carnaval Film Festival 2025 – a celebration of global Carnaval traditions through the lens of cinema.

From July 11–13, this first-ever edition in Amsterdam invites you on a journey through films that capture the spirit, sound, and soul of Carnaval. With a focus on joy, resistance, and cultural memory, the festival features stories from Brazil to Trinidad, from Curaçao to New Orleans, and right back home to the Netherlands and Belgium.

This Sunday screening is part of a dynamic program across Melkweg Cinema and Droog, alongside an expansive online selection of 50+ curated titles from across the globe.

Click here to view Melkweg’s program.

Program Sunday 13th July:

 

16:00 – First Screening

Main: Van Leek noar Aouw Steek (2024, 77′, NL) with introduction and Q&A with the director

Director: Marc van der Staak
Language: Dutch
Subtitles: Dutch

Short: Oilsjt op zen best (2024, 21′, Belgium)

Link to the event page

 

Van Leek noar Aouw Steek is een documentaire over de rijke geschiedenis en levendige tradities van carnaval in Klompengat, de carnavalsnaam van Best, een stad nabij Eindhoven in Noord-Brabant, de ultieme carnavalsprovincie van Nederland. De film neemt de kijker mee op een reis door het verleden en heden van dit unieke feest, en laat zien hoe carnaval zich heeft ontwikkeld en welke impact het heeft op de lokale gemeenschap.

Oilsjt op zen best – Een levendige ode aan Aalst en haar unieke karakter. Van het beroemde carnaval tot het dagelijkse leven in de stad: deze documentaire laat zien wat Aalst zo bijzonder maakt, met aandacht voor de tradities, de mensen en hun typische Aalsterse humor.

 

19:00 – Second Screening

Main: Kurason Di Un Pueblo (2021, 87′, Curaçao) with introduction and Q&A with the director

Director: Corine Djaoen-Genaro
Language: Dutch
Subtitles: English

Short: Bubbling Baby (2025, 18′, NL)

Link to the event page

 

Kurason Di Un Pueblo – Deze documentaire van Dolph van Stapele viert 50 jaar Carnaval op Curaçao. Met interviews, archiefbeelden en kleurrijke scènes volgt de film de voorbereidingen op de ‘Gran Marcha’ en toont hoe het feest de Curaçaose gemeenschap verbindt en haar identiteit versterkt.

Bubbling Baby – In deze korte documentaire onderzoekt Sharine Rijsenburg het ontstaan van bubbling: een energiek muziek- en dansgenre dat ontstond in de jaren ’80 onder Caribisch-Nederlandse jongeren. Met DJ Moortje als pionier groeide bubbling uit tot een unieke culturele uiting en een belangrijk symbool van identiteit. De film ging in première op IFFR 2025.

Caribbean Creativity is an Amsterdam-based non-profit dedicated to showcasing Caribbean and Caribbean-themed cinema in the Netherlands. Since 2008, they’ve hosted over 300 screenings and launched the Marley75 Film Festival and YardVibes, a streaming platform featuring 100+ films by Caribbean and African filmmakers. The Carnaval Film Festival marks their second major on-location film festival.

Africadelic is a non-profit championing African and diasporic cultural creativity and activism in the Netherlands. Best known for the Africadelic Festival around International Africa Day, the organization also curates year-round events. In 2025, they celebrate a decade of festivals and co-organize the inaugural Carnaval Film Festival.

Queer Cinema for Palestine Film Festival

Join us at Red Space, Droog’s new multimedia film theatre, for a powerful evening of Queer Cinema for Palestine; a program that brings together queer narratives and collective reflection in solidarity with Palestinian liberation.

Programma 17 Juni 2025

Screening Starts: 19:00

Screening Ends: 20:30

Film Program

Abgad Hawaz, Robin Riad, 1min, Canada (2024)

Audio: Arabic, English
Subtitles: N/A

Robin Riad’s short hand-drawn analogue film ostensibly teaches the pronunciation of the Arabic Alphabet in 28 easy steps. In actuality, the hand-drawn letters were printed using a laser jet printer onto the optical soundtrack of 16mm film, and what you hear in the film is the projector reading the letters, and interpreting them into sound. Riad uses humour to play with and sit with her mother tongue, offering a ‘false’ lesson in pronunciation. A response to a digital form of anti-Arab hate that Riad witnessed online coming out of the genocide in Gaza, Abgad Hawaz is a way for her to hold close to her language, culture, and roots. (Written by Tara Hakim for TQFF)

Out of Gaza, Seza Tiyara Selen, Jannis Osterburg, 9min, Germany (2025)

Audio: German, Arabic
Subtitles: English

A young Palestinian woman wants to flee from Gaza with her friends, hoping to find freedom in the West. As a talented engineer she makes escape possible, but doubts arise if it is the right decision to leave. When they cross the wall, they encounter a world they did not expect.

Blood Like Water, Dima Hamdan, 14min, Palestine (2023)

Audio: Arabic
Subtitles: English

Shadi embarks on a secret adventure, and accidentally drags his family into a trap where they only have two choices; either collaborate with the Israeli occupation, or be shamed and humiliated by their own people. Based on true stories.

a tangled web drowning in honey, Tara Hakim & Hannah Hull, 9min, Canada (2023)

Audio: English
Subtitles: English

a tangled web drowning in honey is an experiential and textural short film that invites viewers into the inner workings of a mind to ponder the ways in which we love and unlove ourselves.

Aliens in Beirut, Raghed Charabaty, 16min, Lebanon, Canada (2025)

Audio: Arabic, English
Subtitles: English

Aliens in Beirut blurs doc and fiction, exploring alienation and desire at home through scripted improv, wildlife cinematography and visual experimentation. Charabaty (who also stars in the film) reimagines events from their life leading up to the fateful 2020 Beirut Port Explosion. Returning to Beirut from Toronto, desperately in search of roots, Amir falls for a stranger by the sea. In the end, the explosion cares for nobody – leaving behind traces of unerasable desire.

Palcorecore, Dana Dawud, 8min, Internet footage from Palestine (2023)

Audio: Arabic and English
Subtitles: English

Dana Dawud’s Palcorecore (Palestine) is a hypnotic fusion of dance, archival footage, and internet-circulated videos that collapse past and present into a visceral portrait of Palestinian life. Opening with The Lovers Songs Band and excerpts from Jenin, Jenin (2003), the film assembles fleeting yet powerful images: flag-waving horseback riders, families at the beach, teenagers dancing in flames, and acts of resistance against occupation. Dawud’s deadpan narration—“I witness you witness me, we are martyrs together”—pulls the viewer into a shared act of witnessing. Through rhythmic disorder and movement, the film captures the resilience, rebellion, and everyday joys of Palestinian existence, focusing particularly on youth and women in their defiant assertion of life.

I never promised you a Jasmine Garden, Teyama AlKamli, 20min, Canada (2023)

Audio: Arabic, English
Subtitles: English

Tara, a queer Palestinian woman in her late 20s, attempts to suppress her internal emotional turbulence during a phone call with her best friend Sarab, with whom she is in love.

Don’t take my joy away, Omar Gabriel, 7min, Lebanon (2024)

Audio: Arabic
Subtitles: English

Set in Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, two friends revel in the small joys of life until violence suddenly disrupts their world. Forced to flee, they embark on a dangerous journey of survival, confronting fear, chaos, and the stark realities around them. Along the way, they must choose between remaining in the shadows or seeking the light.

 

Weaving Workshop & Queer Film Screening

Together with The Walking with Pride Project, join us for a unique participatory art project where community, craft, and queer storytelling come together.

In this series of weaving workshops, you will learn how to create fabric squares using any materials of their your choice. Each square becomes a canvas for a personal story, with a special focus on voices from queer communities and allies.

Guided by a student facilitator and introduced by university professor, each session blends hands-on making with thoughtful reflection by turning fabric into a medium for memory.

The workshop is paired with a film screening where you can weave while watching a queer film  screening.

Fabric and safety pins will be provided.

The Walking with Pride Project is a collaborative, transnational artwork that centers storytelling through textile and text. The art activism, led by international students in the Netherlands, crafts community unbound by space or place to resist and denounce the persecution of queer people globally.

The art piece is a rag-rug that reflects and evokes solidarity. Participants braid a rectangle from chosen fabrics and are invited to attach a written text reflecting on the experience. The final tapestry is a visual archive that queers storytelling and testifies to the power of art and community to resist repression, restore dignity, and celebrate humanity. It will feature in exhibitions internationally and on the Walking With pride website digitally.

Program:

Sunday 15 June 2025

16:00 – 17:00 Weaving Workshop

17:00 – 18:30 Film Screening & Weaving

18:30 – 19:00 Post Event Drinks & Hangout

Who am I? #1 Luci (2024)

Suriname and the Netherlands share a long and complex past, yet the stories, voices, and cultural contributions of Surinamese people have not been celebrated enough within mainstream narratives. By learning about Surinamese culture, we not only honor a vibrant heritage but also confront the legacies of colonialism that continue to shape both societies today. For this reason, we felt it was only fitting to begin our first edition with a focus on Surinamese identity to reflect on how histories live on in the present.

In this first edition of our cultural screening series Who am I?, we will start our program with the film Luci (2024) directed by Mathieu Wijdeven and Mateo Vega accompanied with a warm Surinamese food service and Q&A after. Luci is a short archive documentary (40 min) about the memory and legacy of the great-great-grandfather of performer and co-director Mathieu Wijdeven: the Surinamese artist G.G.T. Rustwijk (1862-1914), also known by his pseudonym Luci.

Rustwijk lived in Suriname shortly after slavery as a theater maker and performer, multidisciplinary artist, as a man of color and as an early critic of the Dutch colonial regime – before he finally fell into oblivion. This archival documentary investigates the ‘light’ of Rustwijk and what has remained of it in today’s Suriname on the basis of performance, interviews, archival material and historical locations. Luci was selected for a Gouden Kalf (debut competition) in the Netherlands Film Festival.

 

Following the screening, we will host a Q&A with co-director and performer Mathieu Wijdeven, Rustwijk’s descendant inviting reflections on identity, cultural inheritance, and the emotional complexities of returning to one’s roots.

To complement the screening, we invite guests to join us before the event for a warmly prepared vegetarian Surinamese roti roll which you can take with you to the screening. Rooted in tradition and rich with flavor, the meal offers a moment to share a communal experience. By pairing cinema with cuisine, this program aims to create a multi-sensory experience that connects storytelling to taste, history to present, and individual memory to collective culture.

The film will be in Dutch language with English subtitles.

Program:

Wednesday 14 may 2025

18:30 – 19:30 Food Service & Drinks

19:30 – 19:40 Welcome & Introduction

19:40 – 20:20 Film Screening: Luci

20:20 – 21:00 Q&A

About the Who am I? Series:

Who am I?  is a monthly curated film and cultural program that explores the layered and evolving experience of cultural identity. Curated by Alya Yumrukçal, a film and documentary programmer deeply interested in questions of belonging, this series invites audiences to reflect on where they come from, what they carry with them, and how identity is formed across time, space, and memory.

Through building a film program that explores global identities from a transnational perspective I aim to bring both national and international communities together to feel belonged and welcomed despite their physical distances from their original cultures and countries. I aim to create a dialogue between understanding our families, friends, neighbours, through connecting and thinking critically about the way our cultures shape who we are.

Watch & Do!

Vraag je je wel eens af of je iets kunt doen aan de plasticsoep? Weet je niet waar je moet beginnen om minder voedsel te verspillen? En hoeveel kledingstukken in je kast draag je nu echt?

Niets doen is makkelijk, maar wat als je morgen al zou kunnen beginnen met het veranderen van de wereld. Gewoon dichtbij?

@droog biedt je inspiratie om in actie te komen. Op maandagavond kijken we samen met andere wereldverbeteraars naar een actuele documentaire of een optreden. We beloven je dat je aan het einde van de avond met een positieve actie naar huis gaat.

Push

De tweede Watch & Do! avond kijken we samen naar Push. 

Push volgt Leilani terwijl ze onderzoekt waarom steden over de hele wereld zo onbetaalbaar worden. Huisvesting is een fundamenteel mensenrecht, een voorwaarde voor een veilig en gezond leven. Maar in steden over de hele wereld wordt het steeds moeilijker om een woning te hebben. Wie zijn de spelers en wat zijn de factoren die van huisvesting een van de meest urgente wereldproblemen van dit moment maken?

Duur: 92min

Regisseur: Fredrik Gertten

 

Programma

19.30: Korte inleiding

19.45: Start documentaire Push (Dutch subtitles)

21.15: Gesprek met Meike van de Velde, woningmarktspecialist en Bouwe Olij, voormalig stadsdeelvoorzitter Oud-West en directeur eigenaar van OSO (Olij Stedelijke Ontwikkeling).

22.00: Naar huis met concrete do

 

Pay as you like ter plaatse.

 

Ingang Groenburgwal 44, Amsterdam

 

Wil je op de mailinglijst voor deze serie of wil je je ideeën met ons delen? Stuur dan een mail naar [email protected]

Screen & Taste IV: Population Boom

The concept is simple yet tasteful. Together we experience watching a film with impact on society and enjoying a 3-course dinner. Take a seat and enjoy. 

Theme

The films will be curated to reflect on what makes cities alive, showcasing stories of climate crises, human connection and resilience, urban development, and design innovation. Together we have an interactive evening where our tasting, hearing and viewing senses will be touched. The films are selected by film curator Sofia Mourato.

Dinner

All recipes are original, created by chef Marcus Shockley and inspired by the culture and environment portrayed in the film.
The menu enhances the experience of watching a film together and tasting delicious food.
€49,50 per ticket. This includes a movie and a 3-course dinner. Drinks can be purchased separately at the bar.

“Excellent concept, the low barriers connect people. Love the living room vibes!”

– Gita

The film: Population Boom

directed by Werner Boote, AT, 2013, 94 minutes
Green | Society

There are currently about 7 billion people in the world and the number continues to rise. Are there too many people on planet Earth? Werner Boote takes on the overpopulation myth in a light-hearted global investigation. A cinematic journey with the masses between myth, facts and politics.

Watch here the movie trailer:

Program

18:30  Walk-in – take a seat.
19:00  Introduction of the concept and film by Sofia Mourato
19:10  First section of the film
19:30  Starter
19:50  Second section of the film
20:25  Main course
20:45 Third and last section of the film
21:20  Dessert
22:00  The End.

Menu

Screen&Taste’s 3-course menu is a special one. Every edition, a new menu is composed the by chef, based upon the story of the film presented. The menu is to supplement the experience of watching this specific movie. The menu is mainly vegan and sometimes vegetarian and might contain gluten and dairy.

€49,50 include movie and dinner. Excluding drinks.
Due to our time schedule, we can not take into account any allergies or dietary requirements.

About the team

Screen & Taste is organised as collaboration between Sofia Mourato (curator), Eric Haas (initiative) and @droog.

Sofia Mourato

Sofia Mourato (Lisbon, Portugal) has always been inspired by how the processes of design, cinema, architecture and technology intersect. She is interested in connecting concepts and people in order to create something new at the intersection of knowledge with emotions. She appears frequently on and off stage as the former Lisbon architecture film festival founder and director, guest curator, moderator and member of the jury at various events such as the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, the Budapest Architecture Film Days, Porto Design Biennale, Experimenta Design, AA Visiting School, One Minutes Foundation, among others. She is based in Amsterdam and works as communication ecologist, film curator and culture innovation agent. She also maintains her connection with the architecture film festival currently being held in Porto, as the  film competition coordinator.
More info: www.arquiteturasfilmfestival.com\ 

Eric Haas

Eric Haas (August 27, 1970) is a passionate social entrepreneur, initiator, out of the box thinker, concept developer, facilitator, and interim manager. He has specific expertise in co-working, heritage redevelopment, food distribution, circular economy, and ecological building. Eric works hands-on, proactive, and has a knack for building networks/communities and developing profitable, refreshing new propositions. “Screen & Taste” (a series of exclusive film dinners) was created in 2018 in Eric’s Wunderkammer in Amsterdam Oud-West, in collaboration with Sofia Mourato and Jorge Rochazul.

Screen & Taste III: Acasa, my Home

Screen & Taste: A new monthly cinematic dinner experience

The concept is simple yet tasteful. Together we experience watching a film with impact on society and enjoying a 3-course dinner. Every second Tuesday of the month @droog.
Take a seat and enjoy.

Theme

The films will be curated to reflect on what makes cities alive, showcasing stories of climate crises, human connection and resilience, urban development, and design innovation. Together we have an interactive evening where our senses will be touched. The films are selected by film curator Sofia Mourato. When possible, the filmmaker will be present for a Q&A, moderated by Sofia.

“Excellent concept, the low barriers connect people. Love the living room vibes!”
– Gita

Dinner

All recipes are original, created by chef Marcus Shockley and inspired by the culture and environment portrayed in the film.
The menu enhances the experience of watching a film together and tasting delicious food.
€49,50 per ticket. This includes a movie and a 3-course dinner. Drinks can be purchased separately at the bar.

About the film: Acasa, my Home

directed by Radu Ciorniciuc, RO FI DE, 2020, 55 minutes (English subtitles)
Human Interest | Society

For 20 years, nine children and their parents lived in the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, in perfect harmony with nature, until they are chased out and forced to adapt to the big city. With an empathetic and cinematic eye, filmmaker Radu Ciorniciuc offers a compelling tale of an impoverished family living on the fringes of society in Romania, fighting for acceptance and their own version of freedom.

“Heart-breaking and relevant”– Cineuropa
“An emotional journey” – Roger Ebert
“Lyrical and provocative” – The Hollywood Reporter

Watch here the movie trailer:

Awards

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography Sundance 2020
Main Competition DOK.international Award DOK.fest München 2020
Special Jury Award Thessaloniki Doc Fest 2020
Golden Horn for the Director of the Best Film in the International Documentary Competition Krakow Film Festival 2020
Best Moral Approach Award MakeDox 2020
Special Mention Focus Competition Zürich Film Festival 2020
Human Rights Award Sarajevo Film Festival 2020
Ulysse Price for Best Documentary Cinemed 2020
EFCA Doc Award Filem’On IFF 2020
Special Mention Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary Denver FF 2020
Human Rights Award “Balkan Horizons” Free Zone International Film Festival 2020
Golden Key Award for Best Feature Documentary Kasseler Dokfest 2020
Best Documentary Trieste FF 2021
Cine Junior Award Cine Junior 2021
Best Documentary Dublin International Film Festival 2021
Best Documentary Sofia International Film Festival 2021
Best Cinematography German Camera Award 2021

Program

18:30  Walk-in – take a seat. There are some appetizers on the table in case you are hungry.
19:00  Introduction of the concept and film by Sofia Mourato
19:10  First section of the film
19:30  Starter
19:50  Second section of the film
20:10  Short break
20:20  Main course
20:40  Third and last section of the film
21:00  Dessert – during and after the dessert, a talk will be guided by Sofia Mourato and Eric Haas.
21:45 The End.

Menu

Screen&Taste’s 3-course menu is a special one. Every edition, a new menu is composed the by chef, based upon the story of the film presented. The menu is to supplement the experience of watching this specific movie. The menu is mainly vegan and sometimes vegetarian and might contain gluten and dairy.

€49,50 include movie and dinner. Excluding drinks.
Due to our time schedule, we can not take into account any allergies or dietary requirements.

About the team

Screen & Taste is organised as collaboration between Sofia Mourato (curator), Eric Haas (initiative) and @droog.

Sofia Mourato

Sofia Mourato (Lisbon, Portugal) has always been inspired by how the processes of design, cinema, architecture and technology intersect. She is interested in connecting concepts and people in order to create something new at the intersection of knowledge with emotions. She appears frequently on and off stage as the former Lisbon architecture film festival founder and director, guest curator, moderator and member of the jury at various events such as the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, the Budapest Architecture Film Days, Porto Design Biennale, Experimenta Design, AA Visiting School, One Minutes Foundation, among others. She is based in Amsterdam and works as communication ecologist, film curator and culture innovation agent. She also maintains her connection with the architecture film festival currently being held in Porto, as the  film competition coordinator.
More info: www.arquiteturasfilmfestival.com\

Eric Haas

Eric Haas (August 27, 1970) is a passionate social entrepreneur, initiator, out of the box thinker, concept developer, facilitator, and interim manager. He has specific expertise in co-working, heritage redevelopment, food distribution, circular economy, and ecological building. Eric works hands-on, proactive, and has a knack for building networks/communities and developing profitable, refreshing new propositions. “Screen & Taste” (a series of exclusive film dinners) was created in 2018 in Eric’s Wunderkammer in Amsterdam Oud-West, in collaboration with Sofia Mourato and Jorge Rochazul.

 

Screen & Taste II: Thank you for the Rain

Screen & Taste: A new monthly cinematic dinner experience

The concept is simple yet tasteful. Together we experience watching a film with impact on society and enjoying a 3-course dinner. Every second Tuesday of the month @droog.
Take a seat and enjoy. 

Theme

The films will be curated to reflect on what makes cities alive, showcasing stories of climate crises, human connection and resilience, urban development, and design innovation. Together we have an interactive evening where our senses will be touched. The films are selected by film curator Sofia Mourato. When possible, the filmmaker will be present for a Q&A, moderated by Sofia.

Dinner

All recipes are original, created by chef Marcus Shockley and inspired by the culture and environment portrayed in the film.
The menu enhances the experience of watching a film together and tasting delicious food.
€49,50 per ticket. This includes a movie and a 3-course dinner. Drinks can be purchased separately at the bar.

About the film: Thank you for the Rain

directed by Julia Dahr, UK, 2017, 59 minutes
Green | Human Interest

Over the last five years Kisilu, a smallholder farmer in Kenya has used his camera to capture the life of his family, his village and the impacts of climate change. He has filmed floods, droughts and storms but also the more human costs – his kids are sent home from school when he can’t pay the fees; men are moving to towns in search for jobs; and family tensions rise.

Following a storm that destroys his house Kisilu starts building a community movement of farmers fighting the impacts of extreme weather and he takes this message of hope all the way to the UN Climate Talks, in Paris, COP21. 

Here, amid the murky cut and thrust of politics at the biggest environmental show on earth, Kisilu and Norwegian filmmaker Julia Dahr’s relationship takes on a remarkable twist, shedding a powerful light on the climate justice movement and the vastly different worlds they represent.

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Watch here the movie trailer:

Awards

Best Feature Documentary FICMEC 2017
Pangolin Power Film Award SGEFF 2017
Osiris FAO Prize Int. FF Agrofilm 2017
Jury Award Another Way Film Festival 2017
Fethi Kayaalp Grand Award BIFED 2017
Ethos Jury Prize, Best Cinematography Prize Social Impact Media Awards 2018
WWF Award Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2018
Best Movie Nuovi Sguardi 2018
The Objectif d’Argent – Prize for sustainable development Millenium International Documentary Film Festival 2018
The Main Prize of the Minister of the Environment IFF Ekofilm 2018
Sim Award for Best Cinematography in a Feature Women in Film & Television Vancouver FF 2019

Program

18:30  Walk-in – take a seat. There are some appetizers on the table in case you are hungry.
19:00  Introduction of the concept and film by Sofia Mourato
19:10  First section of the film
19:30  Starter
20:50  Second section of the film
20:10  Short break
20:20  Main course
20:40  Third and last section of the film
21:00  Dessert
21:30  The End.

Menu

Screen&Taste’s 3-course menu is a special one. Every edition, a new menu is composed the by chef, based upon the story of the film presented. This time, you can expect a menu inspired on Kenian cuisine. The menu is mainly vegan and sometimes vegetarian and might contain gluten and dairy.

€49,50 include movie and dinner. Excluding drinks.
Due to our time schedule, we can not take into account any allergies or dietary requirements.

About the curator Sofia Mourato

Sofia Mourato (Lisbon, Portugal) has always been inspired by how the processes of design, cinema, architecture and technology intersect. She is interested in connecting concepts and people in order to create something new at the intersection of knowledge with emotions. She appears frequently on and off stage as the former Lisbon architecture film festival founder and director, guest curator, moderator and member of the jury at various events such as the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, the Budapest Architecture Film Days, Porto Design Biennale, Experimenta Design, AA Visiting School, One Minutes Foundation, among others. She is based in Amsterdam and works as communication ecologist, film curator and culture innovation agent. She also maintains her connection with the architecture film festival currently being held in Porto, as the  film competition coordinator.
More info: www.arquiteturasfilmfestival.com\

Special thanks to Eric Haas.

Next Up

Screen & Taste III: Acasa, my Home – May 9th

Screen & Taste I: A World to Shape *sold out*

SOLD OUT

Screen & Taste: A new monthly cinematic dinner experience.
The concept is simple yet tasteful. Together we experience watching a film with impact on society and enjoying a 3-course dinner.

Theme

The films will be curated to reflect on what makes cities alive, showcasing stories of climate crises, human connection and resilience, urban development, and design innovation. Together we have an interactive evening where our senses will be touched. The films are selected by film curator Sofia Mourato. When possible, the filmmaker will be present for a Q&A, moderated by Sofia.

Dinner

All recipes are original, created by chef Jorge Rocha and inspired by the culture and environment portrayed in the film.
The menu enhances the experience of watching A World to Shape by offering a combination of Portuguese and Dutch cuisine.
€49,50 per ticket. Including a movie and a 3-course dinner.

Drinks can be purchased separately at the bar.
The menu for this film will be vegan.

About the film: A World to Shape (2022) 

By opening the series, we introduce you to the film A World to Shape (2022), directed by Ton van Zantvoort. This film is about two of the new generation’s most passionate designers, Nienke Hoogvliet (1989) and Dave Hakkens (1988), using design to tackle the world’s biggest problems.

directed by Ton van Zantvoort, 52 minutes, Dutch, English subtitles

Nienke Hoogvliet (1989) and Dave Hakkens (1988) represent a new generation of contemporary Dutch Designers. This generation is acutely aware that raw materials are depleting, energy is scarce, and globalization is driving new forms of small-scale production. As makers, they don’t care about existing boundaries between art, design and science.

In A World to Shape, director Ton van Zantvoort guides you through the respective ingenuity of Nienke and Dave. Though they think differently, they are set on improving the world in their own inimitable ways. Nienke’s mission is to make the world’s second most polluting industry – the clothing industry – more sustainable. She is currently working on sustainable applications of seaweed, such as using it to make paint.

Dave’s ambition is equally ambitious. His Kamp project attempts to establish a living and working community that uses a minimal carbon footprint. He is building this community in Portugal, where he has bought nine hectares of land. He has created a blueprint for a new society and made it open source so that anyone can adopt and improve it, and the system can be used worldwide.

Where many people might see problems, Nienke and Dave envisage solutions. But how realistic are their ambitions? To find out, we join Dave and Nienke on their audacious quests.

The film is in Dutch with English subtitles. 

Watch the movie trailer

Program March 14

18:30  Walk-in – take a seat. There are some appetizers on the table in case you are hungry
19:00  Introduction by Sofia Mourato, Jorge Rochazul and the filmmaker Ton van Zantvoort
19:15  First section of the film
19:35  Starter
19:55  Second section of the film
20:15  Main course
20:35  Third and last section of the film
20:55  Dessert
21:15  Q&A with filmmaker Ton van Zantvoort, moderated by Sofia Mourato
21:45  The End.

About the curators

Screen & Taste is organized by Sofia Mourato (curator) and Jorge Rocha (chef).
Special thanks to creative strategist Eric Haas.

Sofia Mourato

Sofia Mourato (Lisbon, Portugal) has always been inspired by how the processes of design, cinema, architecture and technology intersect. She is interested in connecting concepts and people in order to create something new at the intersection of knowledge with emotions. She appears frequently on and off stage as the former Lisbon architecture film festival founder and director, guest curator, moderator, and member of the jury at various events such as the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, the Budapest Architecture Film Days, Porto Design Biennale, Experimenta Design, AA Visiting School, One Minutes Foundation, among others. She is based in Amsterdam and works as a communication ecologist, film curator, and culture innovation agent. She also maintains her connection with the architecture film festival currently being held in Porto, as the film competition coordinator.

More info: www.arquiteturasfilmfestival.com

Jorge Rocha

Jorge Rocha is an Amsterdam-based Portuguese artist and gastronomy researcher. His artistic approach is centered on food and culture. Back in Portugal, he began a cross-functional project combining art, gastronomy, and heritage, in which he collaborated with archaeologists to build many food talk presentations in various ancient sites, resulting in two exhibitions. Since moving to Amsterdam, he has discovered a passion for fermentation, and he presently works as a Sous-Chef at Collins.

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Screen & Taste II: Thank you for the Rain – April 11th