Camilo de Catro, Brad Allgood | 2023 | Nicaragua, USA | 84’ | EN subs
ENPatrol is a character-driven documentary that follows communities on the frontlines of an intensifying environmental conflict in Nicaragua. On one side, the Rama Indigenous people, in alliance with the Afro-descendant Kriol community, are fighting to stop illegal cattle ranchers from destroying the virgin rainforests of the Indio Maíz Biological Reserve.
Armando John, a quiet but brave young man, Margarito, a philosophical father of six, and Rupert Allen Clair Duncan, a leader within the territory, form part of a Forest Ranger squad. They have teamed up with Christopher Jordan, an American conservationist. Christopher came to the Indio Maíz Reserve to study how local cultures interact with wildlife and quickly fell in love with the generosity of the Rama and Kriol people and the incredible beauty of the Reserve.
Interwoven into the narrative is the story of Carmen and Chacalin—illegal cattle ranchers who have moved deep into the jungle. They have deforested a large parcel of land in order to bring in cattle and are helping other families invade the Reserve. While on an expedition to confront illegal ranchers, the Rangers discover a large cattle farm deep inside their territory. An unknown but wealthy rancher has deforested 400 acres and moved in 80 young bulls, all with ear tags and branding. Teaming up with undercover Nicaraguan journalists, the Rama and Kriol discover the rancher’s identity —and his connection to the government— and launch a coordinated campaign to remove him.
Zondag 5 oktober, 20:30
SPECIAL
Solidarity Screening
Mesoamerican Caravan for Climate and Life
EN On the 5th of October we (Gira Holanda, Perrx and Debt for Climate NL) organize a movie screening at Filmhuis Cavia to support the Caravan for Climate and Life.
This caravan will travel from Mexico to Brazil to use the platform of COP30 to amplify the stories and demands of communities defending their land and fighting for environmental justice. As they respond to the war on life by uniting struggles, raising a collective voice and traveling together for climate justice and debt cancellation. We ask you to come and join and support the Caravan and enable the strengthening of the ties of our siblings in Mesoamerica.
You can read more about the Caravan for Climate and life: here
We are screening three documentaries that show the resistance of indigenous and local communities against extractivist projects in Mexico, as well as the struggle for life and climate justice.
- Doors open at 20:00
- Documentaries start at 20:30
- There will be Q&A after each documentary.
The South Resists
Ricardo D'Aguiar | 2023 | 29’ | EN subtitles
This documentary follows a protest caravan of the indigenous women-led resistance against the megaproject of the interoceanic corridor in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in southern Mexico. It sheds light on recurring development plans implemented by the Mexican government, resulting in land dispossession, income loss, precarization of labor, migration, and environmental degradation. The caravan is met with intimidation and an escalation of violent repression as it threads its way through small villages and towns in the region, to alert and mobilize the population.
We are the Wind: Resistance on the Isthmus to Mareña wind park
Kolectivo Kolibri | 2013 | 35’ | EN subtitles
This documentary shows the conflict generated by the intention to establish the San Dionisio del Mar Wind Park on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, focusing on the realities and opinions of the inhabitants of the region and giving voice to people who don’t appear in the commercial media. The film also shows the logic of the wind parks in a more global vision, briefly explaining what lies behind corporate promises of “green energy” and “clean development”.
In the waist of Mexico: Interoceanic Corridor
Gloria Muñoz Ramírez | 2019 | 35’ | EN subtitles
Twelve indigenous peoples live along the 260 kilometers of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the waist of Mexico, distributed among more than 500 Chinantec, Chochoco, Chontal, Huave, Mazatec, Mixtec, Mixe, Zapotec, Nahuatlaca, Popoluca, and Zoque communities. All of them have resisted the projects presented to them in the name of so-called progress. And today is no exception. An interoceanic corridor conceived by yesterday's and today's rulers is once again being planned on their territories. “It may be the last battle,” they feel in the Isthmus. This documentary is part of the project “Right of reply: The people speak,” produced by Desinformémonos. Grassroots journalism.
Free entrance
Donderdag 9 oktober, 20:30
SEX-POSITIVE
Kissable Screens:
Retrospective of Sakura Ardila Ortíz + Q&A
Sakura Ardila Ortíz | 2022-2025 | 60’ | EN subtitles
ENSakura Ardila’s films are an exploration of porn history, dating back to 18th-century novels to 20th-century porn films. Her work delves into the archives of humanity’s sexual pleasures through homage. She sees pornography as a tool for arousal and entertainment, and criticises the erasure of those intentions as a homogenising force under political agendas. People’s sexual tastes and kinks represented by pornography are a memory of our sexuality’s diversity. Therefore, Sakura’s work is made for arousal, full of stories that couldn’t be shown in any other way but as porn. They make you laugh, cry, and get horny. She does this while poking on topics such as online sex work in Colombia, and the complexities of human relationships. MORE→
Woensdag 15 oktober, 20:30
SPECIAL
Working Progress: Filmmakers’ Community Event
EN Working Progress is a series of screenings that enable filmmakers to present their unfinished works to meet audiences with the aim of receiving feedback, generating a conversation and network for filmmakers and other film people! Filmmakers and works are chosen through an open call on a monthly basis. For interested parties, please email: workingprogress.ams@gmail.com
The screening will present 3 work in progress films or audiovisual works, with each filmmaker or artist receiving up to 30 minutes to present their unfinished work and talk to the audience about the work. More details about the selected projects to follow in the week before the screening.
Entrance: Donation-based
Vrijdag 17 oktober, 20:30
DOCU
Cows on the Roof (Anche stanotte le mucche danzeranno sul tetto)
EN All true crime stories start with a mysterious body emerging and follow up with the inevitable investigation. Your average Netflix movie would approach the subject with exploitative sensationalism and would use the victim’s suffering as an excuse for your throwaway background entertainment while you’re consuming your TV-dinner. Swiss farmer docu-drama Cows on the Roof isn’t your average Netflix filler, so it takes a different approach to the story without ignoring the original mystery element.
Instead, it chooses to use the Macedonian season worker’s death as an excuse to look behind the scenes of what is happening at a farm in Switzerland. How come an undocumented poor Balkan immigrant died in one the world’s wealthiest countries during his seasonal job? Is Fabiano, the Swiss hippie farm owner, to blame, or is he a victim of capitalism since he is also struggling to make ends meet by selling his quality handmade cheese under manufacturing price in the nearby town? What circumstances turn someone into a hippie farmer in a banker's country to begin with?
Cows on the Roof might not spoonfeed these answers to you, but it gracefully allows you to look behind the curtains, invites you to explore the harsh realities of farming and asks you questions about its sustainability, all without ignoring the whodunit aspect.
NL Spiros is de laatste overgebleven motoracrobaat die optreedt in de Cirkel des Doods. Hij leidt een nomadisch leven met zijn familie, zijn karavaan en een team rijders dat hem vaak in de steek laat. Zijn vader was een legende in de Cirkel des Doods, net als zijn grootvader, oom en broer – een familietraditie die al meer dan 50 jaar standhoudt. Zal Spiros in het huidige onzekere Griekenland de eindjes aan elkaar kunnen knopen, en krijgt dit verdwijnende beroep een nieuw elan? Zijn zijn zonen bereid om het stuur over te nemen? Een menselijk portret van een old school liefhebber van snelheid en risico in een snel veranderende wereld. Een van de twee regisseurs, Lino Kafidas, zal ook aanwezig zijn.
EN Spiros is the last remaining motorcycle acrobat performing in the Circle of Death. He lives a nomadic life with his family, his caravan, and a team of riders who often abandon him. His father was a Circle of Death legend, as were his grandfather, uncle and brother – a family tradition unbroken for over 50 years. In today’s uncertain Greece, will Spiros manage to make ends meet, and will this vanishing profession get a second wind? Are his sons willing to take the wheel? A human portrait of an oldschool lover of speed and risk in a rapidly changing world. One of the two directors, Lino Kafidas, will also be present.
EN In a country that prides itself on democracy, a group of peaceful activists, known for chalking messages and holding signs, faces a terrifying escalation: repression so severe that their right to speak freely becomes their last, desperate stand. For the Lives of Others is a documentary that follows a group of nonviolent activists who use chalk, megaphones and scrap cardboard to spread their message. What begins as a series of harmless street messages soon escalates into a direct confrontation with the state, which is determined to silence them.
Trigger warning: animal abuse, physical violence.
Donderdag 23 oktober, 19:00
SPECIAL
Cavia Dance Event
Meten Is Weten, with Interstellar Duo DJ set + album launch
Charlotte Sterland & Heather Sterland | 2025 | UK | 28’ | English
EN In a world where music festivals are fighting to stay sustainable, philosophical questions are asked, and figures are brought out in this British eco-mockumentary series “Meten is Weten”. This four-episode micro-series stars Sirk and Ular, two kangaroo sustainability consultants engaged in their latest project: the planning of a sustainable music festival designed to attract rare animals from across the globe. Preceded by the short film Animals At a Restaurant. Both films are produced by Charlotte Sterland and Heather Sterland, also known as Interstellar Duo, and feature original music composed by them. TRAILER
Join us in this very special evening where an intimate vibe is created with the presence of the filmmakers and their original DJ-set. The films will be screened throughout the evening at fixed times in our cinema hall, and you can also delight yourself with the sounds of the duo's latest album over a drink at our bar area, or while having a chat with them in our meetup space about circular economy in music. Featuring our resident DJ Pink Tweaks.
Screenings at 20:00 and 21:15
Doors open from 19:00 to 01:00
Entrance: 7 euros or Cineville
Zaterdag 25 oktober, 20:30
CONTEMPORARY
Asian Movie Night x Qyzqaras
Tremors Beneath the Surface: Women’s Voices from Central Asia
Asian Movie Night is happy to return to CAVIA with a program curated by Malika Mukhamejan from Qyzqaras Film Festival. After the screening, stay for the drawing workshop Scene & Seen!
Tremors Beneath the Surface: Women’s Voices from Central Asia program brings together features, shorts, and experimental works from Central Asia and its diasporas, assembling a layered portrait of women’s lives. The films are bound not by a single storyline but by the tremors that run beneath them: silence carried across generations, memory interrupting the present, endurance woven into the textures of the everyday. MORE→
EN Yakha is 17 and loves roaming about the fields with her friend Madina. Her home is a village in Chechnya where she lives with her mother and little brother. She is self-composed by nature and knows what she wants, but is also open to life – which begins to take shape in the form of certain cultural and social concepts. Madina wants to get married; Yakha’s older sister wants a divorce. Her mother is against it – after all, she herself managed to persevere. Together they visit the grave of their father who died in the second Chechen war.
This debut film by Malika Musaeva impresses with its stylistically and narratively unobtrusive cinematic impressionism that succeeds in balancing the main character’s carefree youthfulness and inner maturity. Yakha’s complex emotional world is conveyed primarily in terms of atmosphere, via looks and gestures, landscapes and movements in the air. The deep rift between tradition and modernity, and between gendered reality and self-determination, is all the more forcefully revealed. A film about what it means to be and live as a young woman, and the melancholy that lies within that.
From September to December 2025, Filmhuis Cavia shows a selection of films from the North Caucasian region, specifically Chechnya and Georgia. You can find the full program HERE.
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.
