Saturday 21st June 2025
12-7pm
Coastguard Cultural Centre
Tramore, Ireland
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Green shoots Film Festival
The Green shoots Film Festival 2025 will be on Saturday 21st in Tramore, Ireland at the Coastguard Cultural Centre
12-7pm. This is our third film festival featuring new and powerful documentaries on
climate change, biodiversity, ocean conservation, beautiful gardens, GIY, trees and marine protected areas, renewable energy and feminist visions of sustainable futures. Featuring panels and Q&A's with Directors, producers and
ecological activists.
Common Ground
Directed and produced by
Josh Tickell and Rebecca Tickell
Big Picture Ranch 2025
Common Ground is a feature documentary on the uplifting story of the pioneers of the “Regenerative Movement” in the farms and on the land
Farmers are giving up the toxic seeds and
the chemical sprays pushed by Big Agriculture,
multi national corporations, in order to produce
tremendous quantities of nutritionally dense food while bringing our entire ecosystem back to life.
The documentary features the experience of farmers
in the USA. Regenerative agriculture is a
revolutionary international movement which could turnaround climate change by regenerating our land.
By fusing a journalistic exposé with deeply personal stories from those in the front lines of the sustainable food movement, COMMON GROUND unveils a dark
web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. The film reveals how racist practices in the USA forged our current farm system in which farmers of all colours are literally dying to feed us.
The film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative “regenerative” models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America’s economy - and turn around global climate change, before it’s too late.
An inspiring call to action, a movement of hope, the
voice of the farmers, saving the planet,
one acre at a time
The Revolution of Regenerative Agriculture
Real food security
Farmers of Palestine and their Trees For Life
Farmers of Palestine and their trees for life are a series of short documentaries
on Fairtrade Palestinian farmers from 2019-2024.
The olive groves are a powerful symbol of resilience and hope.
Today at the height of the war, despite the unprecedented
devastation and genocide,
a few Palestinian farmers have harvested their olive crops to
produce olive oil, almonds and dates from their land.
They are part of the Palestinian and International associations of Fairtrade
farmers. Their love for their land and their vision of sustainable regenerative
agriculture, based on generations of farmers,
are the future of Palestine.
Produced by Palestinian filmmakers for the 20th anniversary of Zaytoun distributors of olive oil, dates and produce from Palestine.
Zaytoun are “a social enterprise inspired by
a love of Palestinian culture, communities and cuisine. We exist to support
Palestinian farmers through fair trade, 100% of our profits are
reinvested into delivering this mission"
Series of short documentaries
Almond farmer Elayan Abu Arra
Filmed by Alaa Badarneh Edited by M.A Production Produced by Zaytoun 3.29 2024
Elayan Abu Arra, in Aqqaba in the West Bank of Palestine, talks about his farming life, the fruitfulness of his land, the vital income he gets
from his almonds and the importance of fair trade.
Haj Bashir's Olive Harvest 2024
Filmed by Bisan Alhajhasan, Produced by Zaytoun 1.43 2024
Haj Bashir a farmer went to his farm to gather this year's olives in August 2024, and take them to be pressed into oil. Everyone is glad to
be working, to sit together to eat, and to see the first
olive oil come off the press.
Haj Rafeeq's Olive groves
Filmed by Alaa Badarneh and Mohyi Hoje Edited by M.A, Production Produced by
Zaytoun 4.52 2021
Filmed in 2021, Haj Rafeeq Hussein is a farmer from the ancient village of
Ti’innik, perched high on a terraced hill in Palestine’s West Bank.
At 77 years old he carries a wealth of farming experience and still loves tending his olive and almond trees, along with annual wheat and sesame crops. It’s a full-time job, for which Haj Rafeeq draws on the inherited wisdom of his ancestors who have farmed the same land for over
200 years. This treasure trove of traditional knowledge is proving
invaluable as he and fellow farmers face the challenges of adapting to climate change under an occupation that restricts access to
land and water resources.
Khitam Ismael Ya'oub, a Palestinian woman farmer
tells the story of the uprooting of 3,400 trees.
Filmed by Alaa Badarneh and Mohyi Hoje Edited by M.A, Production
Produced by
Zaytoun 6.47 2021
In January 2021 over 3,400 trees were uprooted in the village of Deir
Ballout in Palestine. Khitam Ismael Ya'qoub, a Palestinian farmer,
explains the impact of the destruction on her family,
their livelihood and their future.
Zaytoun plants trees, today in Palestine in 2025, you can sponsor a tree for the
Fairtrade farmers, planting hope and affirming their rights to their land and livelihood.
Zaytoun’s tree for life programme, they are planting trees for life today.
https://zaytoun.uk/plant-a-tree/
Fairtrade: A quantum leap
Filmed by Alaa Badarneh Edited by If not now Produced by Zaytoun 1.12 2019
In 2019, Khader Khader a Fairtrade farmer from Palestine, describes how proud he is that his olive oil is sold to overseas customers, and is labelled Palestinian. It wasn't always the case, however - before Fairtrade brought new direct marketing opportunities, Palestinian oil was labelled as Israeli.
Echoes of the Amazon
Directed by Lucas Rebelo
Producers Odyssey Global Media 2025
Indigenous Women Rising to Stop Line 5 and Protect Water, Communities & Our Climate
Produced by We Can 4 minutes 2024
The Great Lakes are under attack, and Indigenous women and allies are rising to shutdown Line 5. Operating 20 years past its engineered life span, Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline is threatening 20 percent of the world’s surface freshwater at a time of climate crisis. This short documentary calls for the existing Line 5 pipeline to be shut down and decomissioned, not simply re-routed and expanded, it tells the story of the communities whose homes, ecosystems and clean drinking water, a basic human right, is at risk from these industries.
We Can International 2025
Director Siobhán Cleary 15 minutes Produced by Rebel Sister Films 2025
Featuring a new interview with Osprey Orielle Lake the Executive Director and Founder of WE CAN international, the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network. In her interview she talks about We Can's
demands and plans for the cop 30 conference in Brazil
and the stories and world vision of her new book:
The Story is in Our Bones:
How Worldviews and Climate
Justice can Remake a World in Crisis
"Braiding poetic storytelling, climate justice and deep cultural analyses, and the collective knowledge of Earth-centered cultures, The Story is in Our Bones opens a portal to restoration and justice
beyond the end of a world in crisis."
Meri's rescue: A seal's second chance
Filmed & edited by Siobhán Cleary Produced by Rebel Sister Films 20 minutes 2025
In January 2025 in Ireland the climate storm Eowyn
devastated the country, destroying homes and felling thousands of trees,
hundreds of seal pups were stranded.
Meri, a three month old grey seal pup was found stranded on Tramore beach
several days after the storm. The pup was rescued by members of the
Tramore Eco Group who are trained members of
Seal Rescue Ireland Rescue Network Volunteers.
At the Seal Rescue Ireland's Centre in Courtown Harbour, she was cared
for, rehabilitated and later returned to the wild Irish sea.
This is the story of Meri and the Seal Rescue Ireland's Centre
in Ireland, whose mission is to protect all life within our seas
An experimental short documentary which takes a nostalgic journey through Santarém, Pará in Brazil, for the filmmaker an emotional landscape, from the simplest moment of a contemplation of a river, once filled with life in childhood, today, because of the devastating impacts of climate change, dry. To the echoes of families and communities, to the trees once loved, now cut down, to the sounds and sights of different animals disappearing from view, to homes and buildings once lived in, falling apart. A meditative work on the personal ecology of everyday life in the urban landscape of the Amazon in Brazil.
Lucas Rebelo is a visionary experimental audiovisual
artist behind Echoes of the Amazon, a compelling project in collaboration
with Odyssey Global Media.
Growing Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Okla Hina Ikhish Holo Network in Bvlbancha & the Gulf South
Filmmaker Teena Pugalia Produced by We Can 5 minutes
In the Mississippi River Delta, Indigenous territories are disappearing at one of the fastest rates on earth, due to a legacy of extractive practices and a changing climate, globally, 80% of biodiversity is existing within Indigenous territories. At the end of the Mississippi River, in the place the Chahta (Choctaw) call Bvlbancha, The Okla Hina Ikhish Holo, People of the Sacred Medicine Trail, a network of femme and nonbinary Indigenous gardeners are working urgently to respond to the climate crisis.
Okla Hina Ikhish Holo are re-establishing old trade routes and networks while adapting and co-designing new future paths for tradeways that strengthen decentralized systems of support, build circular economies, and support local biodiversity, food sovereignty, and stewardship of their traditional territories. The Indigenous women provide the central backbone of their communities, holding vast knowledge and skill gleaned through their traditional role as healers, culture shapers, and caretakers of water and land. This short documentary charts their vision as they defend, protect and work to restore their lands and water.
Breathing New Life Into The Iberian Highlands
Director Emmanuel Rondeau 15 minutes 2023
Produced by Rewilding Europe and White Fox Pictures
Rewilding is transforming the outlook for communities and nature in eastern Spain's Iberian Highlands. This documentary is a beautiful and intimate portrayal of this revitalisation. It focuses on the relocating of 10 Przewalski's horses from the Monts D'Azur Biological Reserve in France, originating in Mongolia and once at home in the Iberian Highlands. This is part of wider efforts by the Iberian Highlands rewilding team, to recover nature and reinvigorate communities across the landscape in May 2023, in the east of Spain.
Rewilding Europe wants to make Europe a wilder place, with much more space for wildlife, wilderness and natural processes. Bringing back the variety of life for us all to enjoy and exploring new ways for people to earn a fair living from the wild.
Soy story: From trough to truth
Director Simon Wood Produced by Ravenshill Films for Friends of the Earth 5:07 2025
From trough to truth is a short animation, demystifying how we feed animals reared for meat in Northern Ireland for large scale profits, by Big Agriculture and
multi-nationals undermining local farmers and regenerative agriculture.
A5 Upgrade, The Facts.
Director Simon Wood Produced by Ravenshill Films 5 minutes 2025
A5 Upgrade is about the facts on the planned dual carriageway to Donegal which will destroy 3000 acres of land, cost 1.2 billion of public funds and devastate an already fragile ecosystem in the North of Ireland. The short documentary is the voice of environmentalists campaigning against the plans.
Munster Express 10th June Film Review in Arts and Expression
Munster Express 8th July full page review of The Green Shoots Film Festival
WLR FM Interview with Director Siobhán Cleary broadcast 15th July 2025 On the Fringe Gemma Delaney
Green Shoots Film Festival Programme and Schedule
Saturday June 21st 2025 12-7pm
12pm Opening of The Green Shoots Film Festival
00:15 - 00:25
Echoes of the Amazon
00:25 - 00:35
Growing Indigenous food sovereignty
00:35 - 00:45
We can International interview 2025
00:50- 00:55
Indigenous women rising to stop line 5
00:55 - 01:00
A5 Update, the facts
01:00 - 01:30
Lunch, tea and coffee break
01:30 - 02:00
Farmers of Palestine and their trees of life
02:00 - 02:45
Meri's rescue: A seal's second chance
02:45 - 3:15
Q&A Panel with filmmakers, directors, producers and environmentalists
03:15 - 03:30
Tea and coffee break
03:30 - 03:45
Soy story: from trough to truth
04.00 - 05:15
Common Ground
05:15 - 05:30
Breathing new life into the Iberian Highlands
Closing reception of Green Shoots Film Festival
VENUE
Coastguard Cultural Centre
Upstairs Gallery, Tramore
Coastguard cultural centre
Upstairs Gallery
Doneraile, Tramore West,
Co. Waterford, X91 HP63
Access details
Ramp into building
One flight of stairs
Lift available with wheelchair access
Bicycles welcome
Café
Lunch, teas, coffee and cakes.
Café on ground floor
Festival day tickets on Eventbrite
https://greenshootsfilmfestival2025.eventbrite.ie
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