December
Zaterdag 7 december, 20:30
CLASSIC
The Stepfather
Joseph Ruben | 1987 | USA | 90’ | EN subs
NL Filmhuis Cavia presenteert met veel plezier de ultieme familieslasher voor de kerstperiode: The Stepfather (1987), een psychologische thriller geregisseerd door Joseph Ruben. De hoofdpersoon is een charmante man, gespeeld door Terry O'Quinn, die er alles aan doet om het perfecte gezin te vinden. Hij denkt dat hij het heeft gevonden en hij mengt zich in hun leven om hun stiefvader te worden – maar zodra hij zich realiseert dat zijn familie niet aan zijn idealen voldoet, slaat zijn frustratie om in geweld...
EN Filmhuis Cavia is thrilled to present the ultimate family slasher for the Christmas season: The Stepfather (1987), a psychological thriller directed by Joseph Ruben. The protagonist is a charming man, played by Terry O'Quinn, who does everything to find the perfect family. Believing he’s found it, he inserts himself into their lives to become their stepfather – but as soon as he realizes that his family fails to meet his ideals, his frustration turns violent…
Zaterdag 14 december, 20:30
SPECIAL
Accidentally Cinematic: Exploring the Narrative Home Movie
Various Makers | 1936 - 2020 | USA, UK, NL, Russia | approx 90’ | EN subs
NL Home movies zijn korte amateurfilms die gemaakt zijn om speciale momenten te bewaren en om van te genieten in de privacy van het huis. Slechts zelden hebben deze momentopnamen een verhaal. Accidentally Cinematic brengt deze 'toevallig filmische' vorm van de home movie uit zijn stoffige doos en op het witte doek.
De geselecteerde home movies zijn tussen 1936 en 2020 opgenomen door verschillende mensen in de VS, Groot-Brittannië, Nederland en Rusland. Om het gezellige gevoel van de home movie vertoningsritueel na te bootsen serveren we verschillende warme dranken.
Meer informatie over narratieve home movies: accidentallycinematic.com
EN Home movies are short amateur films made to preserve special moments and to be enjoyed in the privacy of the home. Only rarely do these momentary recordings have a narrative. Accidentally Cinematic brings this ‘accidentally cinematic’ form of the home movie out of its dusty box and on the silver screen.
The selected home movies were shot by various people in the USA, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Russia between 1936 and 2020. To recreate the cozy feeling of the home movie screening rite we are going to serve a variety of hot drinks.
More info on narrative home movies: accidentallycinematic.com
Vrijdag 20 december, 20:30
SEX POSITIVE
Kissable Screens: Memories of a Burning Body (Memorias de un cuerpo que arde)
Antonella Sudasassi | 2024 | Costa Rica, Spanje | 90’ | EN subs
EN Kissable Screens, the monthly sex-positive programme of Cavia, encountered this beautiful film at the Pornfilmfestival in Berlin this year. Memories of a Burning Body is a wake-up call to those in unfulfilling relationships who think that sexual pleasure is gone after the menopause.
The film follows the voices of three women – 68-year-old Ana, 69-year-old Patricia and 71-year-old Mayela who grew up during a repressive era on the Central American island of Costa Rica – and portrays their memories, experiences and relationships as well as their approach to sexuality and femininity. They do not step in front of the camera, so the images in this film are implicit and poetic. Through the memory and intimacy of three women, this film tells you that sexual pleasure and desire can go on and even begin later in life.
Zaterdag 28 december, 19:30
DOCU
Palestine Cinema Days:
Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory
Mohanad Yaqubi | 2016 | Palestina, Frankrijk, Qatar, Libanon | 62’ | EN subs
EN In Solidarity. Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory is a meditation on the Palestinian people's struggle to produce an image and self-representation on their own terms in the 1960s and 1970s, with the establishment of the Palestine Film Unit as part of the PLO. Unearthing films stored in archives across the world after an unprecedented research and access, the film begins with popular representations of modern Palestine and traces the works of militant filmmakers in reclaiming image and narrative through revolutionary and militant cinema. In resurrecting a forgotten memory of struggle, Off Frame reanimates what is within the frame, but also weaves a critical reflection by looking for what is outside it, or what is off frame.
Free entrance