NL Van 30 oktober tot en met 3 november kruipt de Amsterdam Film Meeting uit de stoelen van Filmhuis Cavia om innovatieve verhalen en experimentele vormen te vertonen. Fictie, non-fictie en performance worden samengevoegd tijdens de eerste editie van een festival gewijd aan onafhankelijke cinema(s). Met een mix van oude en nieuwe films, in aanwezigheid van hun makers, hopen we betekenisvolle gesprekken en sterke cinematische ontmoetingen te stimuleren. MEER→
EN From October 30 to November 3 the Amsterdam Film Meeting crawls out the seats of Filmhuis Cavia to screen innovative storytelling and experimental forms, blending fiction, non-fiction and performance at the first edition of a fest dedicated to independent cinema(s). With a mix of repertory and new films, in the presence of their makers, we’re hoping to foster meaningful conversations and strong cinematic encounters. MORE→
Vrijdag 8 november, 20:30
EXPERIMENTAL
Surrender Your Horns + Q&A
Bryony Dunne | 2022 | Ierland | 61’ | English
NL Als zacht nagesprek van het Amsterdam Film Meeting festival in Cavia hebben we Surrender Your Horns geprogrammeerd, gevolgd door een Q&A met regisseur Bryony Dunne. Een docufictie over een eenzame Ier die na het snuiven van gepoederde hoorn een Kafkaiaanse metamorfose ondergaat in een man met het hoofd van een neushoorn. Hij belichaamt zowel de jager als de gejaagde en leidt ons naar een reeks echte en fantasiewerelden. Documentairebeelden smelten samen met de Theatre of the Absurd-achtige voorstellingen van eenhoorn-nachtclubbers, voortplantingsbiologen en hoornsmokkelaars. Deze tragedie komt in existentiële focus als neushoorns niet alleen in levenden lijve worden bejaagd, maar ook in de dood.
EN As a gentle after-surrealistic slide from the Amsterdam Film Meeting festival at Cavia, we have programmed Surrender Your Horns, followed by a Q&A with its director Bryony Dunne. A docu-fiction about a lonely Irishman who, after sniffing powdered horn, undergoes a Kafkaesque metamorphosis into a man with the head of a rhinoceros. Embodying both the hunter and the hunted, he guides us into a series of real and fantasy worlds. Documentary footage merges with the Theatre of the Absurd-style performances of unicorn nightclubbers, reproductive biologists, and horn smugglers. This tragedy comes into existential focus as rhinos are not only hunted in life but also in death.
Zaterdag 9 november, 18:00
EXPERIMENTAL
Split Vision: selected films by Astrid Ardagh & Michael Bucuzzo + Q&A
EN In celebration of being awarded the Young Amsterdam Art Support Award, Michael Bucuzzo and Astrid Ardagh are showcasing a selection of their films at Filmhuis Cavia. The lineup provides a thought-provoking journey across various thematic terrains, from the existential crisis of a hijacked airplane to the omnipresence of the Arctic winter. Expect a mixture of experimental visuals, personal reflections on memory, and philosophical inquiries into our relationship with technology, nature, and identity. The directors will be present for a Q&A after the screening.
Stress Eating Time
Michael Bucuzzo | 2023 | NL | 11’ | no subs
Crushed under the unbearable weight of time, an airplane has an existential crisis and hijacks itself. Air travel cinema is reappropriated to explore the suspended zone between arrival and departure, life and death, technology and spirituality.
Har du sett ho
Astrid Ardagh | 2023 | Norway | 15’ | EN subs
Set on a remote Arctic island where the sun doesn’t shine for two months every winter, the film is a poetic investigation into our relationship to darkness and the cycles of nature.
A sneak peek of Astrid Ardagh’s film
Astrid Ardagh | 2024 | Norway | 20’ | EN subs
Eudora
Michael Bucuzzo | 2015 | US | 10’ | no subs
Eudora explores the family home through the eyes of a returning spirit: my grandfather. Eudora uses its images as a resurrection force to examine the ambiguity of memory and reality, and its further degradation through the act of recollecting.
We Always Aim Higher
Michael Bucuzzo | 2022 | NL | 10’ | no subs
In a flow of digital feeds, a dedicated manager enforces the company credo: We’re more than a team. We’re greater than a family. Every day we improve, correct, and optimize. We Always Aim Higher.
A forgotten childhood
Astrid Ardagh | 2022 | NL | 11’ | EN subs
Compiled from home movies shot by Astrid’s father during her childhood, the film takes the viewer on a journey through time and place. Drawing parallels from different cultural and historical perspectives the narrator questions where our lost memories go.
Zondag 10 november, 14:00
DOCU
Asian Movie Night: Don’t Feed the Stray Cats
+ Aftertalk with the director
Kim Heeju & Jeong Juhee | 2020 | KR | 79’ | Korean, EN subs
EN Don’t Feed the Stray Cats is part of Asian Movie Night Autumn Edition titled Cat Got Your Tongue.
With a surprise visit of the Director Jeong Jugee, this is a special screening of this heartwarming film in Amsterdam.
Na Young is a "cat mom" caring for stray cats day and night. Due to her disability and worsening conditions, she cannot afford to arrange her meals, yet she continues to care for cats. People blame her for it, but Na Young continues to live and care in this way. The director found Na Young through her diary postings on an online cat mom community. Her writings contained various emotions and experiences of companionship with non-human beings. This film questions what social care is, and how we can go beyond a human-centric ableist sense of caring and belonging.
Vrijdag 15 november, 20:30
EXPERIMENTAL
The River Flows Both Ways: a collective screening of new films by NL-based artist-filmmakers
A collection of films by Jasper Coppes, Lucy Cordes Engelman, Anami Schrijvers, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Annemarie Wadlow, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Veronica Munteanu, Karin Nakajima, Sara Ouljour, and Jasper Philipse.
Still from Heavenly and Harrowing, 2024 HD
EN “We tend to think of a film like a river, flowing in a single direction – but rivers are known to occasionally change their direction according to tidal estuaries, geological movements, or human intervention… and like a shifting river, film as a medium can spiral, circle, move backwards through memory, or spill outwardbin unexpected directions. A film is a landscape we enter – a place which is not linear either; it reveals itself in myriad ways and holds multiple histories. In these recent films from Netherlands-based artists and filmmakers, the flow of meaning unfolds in many directions and across numerous landscapes.” MORE→
Gratis toegang / free entrance
Woensdag 20 november, 20:30
CONTEMPORARY
Your Bros. Filmmaking Group: selected short films
With the presence of film curator i-hsuan and filmmakers
EN Your Bros. Filmmaking Group is a Taiwanese filmmaking group, formed by contemporary artist So Yo-hen, architect Tien Zong-yuan and art historian Liao Hsiu-hui in 2017. They focus on the experiences of modern migrant workers, with a unique artistic approach grounded in field research, conversations, performative workshops, and dynamic on-the-spot editing to continually (re)shape cinematic narratives. MORE→
Vrijdag 22 november, 20:30
DOCU
Polish Prayers
Hanka Nobis | 2022 | Zwitserland, Polen | 84’ | Polish, EN subs
NL Antek, 22 jaar, groeit op in een diepgelovig en rechtsradicaal gezin in het hedendaagse Polen. Katholicisme, nationalisme, homofobie en het celibaat bepalen zijn wereld. Gedurende een aantal jaren volgt filmmaker Hanka Nobis hem, zijn vrienden en zijn familie met haar crew. Ze ziet Antek genieten van zijn groeiende macht in de Broederschap, een kleine groep gelijkgestemde jonge mannen. Maar als hij verliefd wordt begint hij te twijfelen - eerst over het verbod op seks voor het huwelijk, dan over zijn kijk op de LGBTQ-gemeenschap en uiteindelijk over het bestaan van God.
EN Antek, 22, grows up in a deeply religious and radical right-wing family in contemporary Poland. Catholicism, nationalism, homophobia and celibacy define his world. Over several years, filmmaker Hanka Nobis follows him, his friends and his family with her crew. She sees Antek enjoy his growing power in the Brotherhood, a small group of like-minded young men. But when he falls in love, doubts begin to set in – first about the prohibition of premarital sex, then about his view towards the LGBTQ community and ultimately about the existence of God.
If you missed this film, it's available to stream on Vimeo as video on demand through this link.
Woensdag 27 november, 20:30
DOCU
F/1.4: When Photographs Normalise Violence
+ Q&A with the director
Seyed Saeid Mir Mohammadi | 2023 | Iran | 53’ | Farsi, EN subs
NLF/1.4 onderzoekt de complexe erfenis van de oorlog tussen Iran en Irak (1980-1988) door de lens van fotografie, en onderzoekt haar dubbele rol als documentatie en propaganda. De iconische oorlogsfoto's, die door het autoritaire leiderschap van de Islamitische Republiek werden gebruikt om verlies en geweld te herkaderen als daden van religieuze toewijding en opoffering, worden opnieuw bekeken in retrospectieve gesprekken met negen oorlogsfotografen en vier Iraanse wetenschappers. Aan de hand van 101 archieffoto's samen met journaals en kritische perspectieven van de naoorlogse generaties, legt de film spanningen bloot tussen kunst, propaganda en herinnering, waarbij zowel esthetische als ethische keuzes in de context van de oorlog worden herzien en uitgedaagd.
ENF/1.4 delves into the complex legacy of the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) through the lens of photography, examining its dual role as documentation and propaganda. Used by the authoritarian leadership of the Islamic Republic to reframe loss and violence as acts of religious devotion and sacrifice, the iconic war photographs are being revisited in retrospective conversations with nine war photographers and four Iranian scholars. Using 101 archival photographs alongside newsreels and critical perspectives from the postwar generations, the film exposes tensions between art, propaganda, and memory, revising and challenging both aesthetic and ethical choices in the context of the war.
Vrijdag 29 november, 20:30
SEX-POSITIVE
Kissable Screens: From Okinawa with Love
Hiroshi Sunairi | 2022 | Japan, USA | 101’ | EN subs
EN Kissable screens is a monthly sex-positive screening at Cavia; a social, political and also very personal engagement that seeks to change cultural attitudes and norms around sexuality.
From Okinawa with Love tells the story of Okinawan photographer Ishikawa Mao, who spent her early 20s working as a barmaid in establishments that catered specifically to African-American soldiers stationed in Okinawa. She captured impressions of her surroundings with her camera and published three photo books, starting with 1982’s Hot Days in Camp Hansen, that contains collections of friends and lovers—mainly Okinawan bar girls and their Black American boyfriends in casual entwined poses. Looking back on these photographs and on Okinawa in the wake of its return to Japan in 1972 after U.S. rule, Mao takes us on a journey through her life as a passionate photographer and shares a personal and intimate point of view.
NL Toegang 5 euro, tenzij anders vermeld.
We accepteren ook de Cinevillepas.
Reserveren is niet mogelijk. Kaartjes kunnen vanaf een half uur voor aanvang aan de bar gekocht worden.
EN Entrance 5 euros, unless stated otherwise. We also accept the Cineville card.
It's not possible to make reservations. Tickets can be bought at the bar, half an hour before the film starts.
