Film the Vegan farmer

Film the Vegan farmer

A personal portrait about the split of vegan livestock farmer Ruud Zanders. Film evening with optional vegan dinner plus an aftertalk with Ruud! (subject to change)

In the film De Vegan Veehouder, renowned photographer and documentary filmmaker Kadir van Lohuizen follows Limburg poultry farmer Ruud Zanders. Ruud started a smaller-scale and more sustainable business after his large-scale poultry farms went bankrupt. This new concept, Kipster, is now garnering worldwide attention and it is on the eve of an international breakthrough. But in the meantime, the livestock farmer himself is increasingly questioning why he keeps animals for food. He now abandons meat, dairy and eggs as much as possible for his own consumption. Do we really need animals in the global food system?

Maker Kadir van Lohuizen meticulously captures the internal struggles of ideal versus practice in his frame. Are you doing well enough if you have developed the best possible chicken house for animal welfare and circularity? Or does that mean you are actually perpetuating the system? What do activist George Monbiot and scientist Imke de Boer think of Ruud's quest, and where do you stand yourself?

With again the possibility of a delicious vegan meal at the restaurant SEC Eten en Drinken, opposite the theater. With organic vegetables from Tuin de Es, of course!