Film

Kawa Nemir is like a walking dictionary of Kurdish language. Whenever he hears a new word or an idiom, he records it and he never forgets. Considering the Kurdish language his home, he wanders from one exile to another. But how to transfer this collective memory into paper? With its vast, infinite range of words, symbols and anti-colonial resonance, James Joyce’s Ulysses becomes an obsession for him. A translation that would incapsulate all the Kurdish words and idioms he collected throughout the years. Exhausted from political prosecutions and language ban, he flees Turkey and takes refuge at Anne Frank’s former house in Amsterdam, now serving as residence for exiled writers. Will he be able to finish the translation of Ulysses and publish it?

Line-up: Aylin Kuryel | Fırat Yücel | 2023 | NL | TK | 71' | EN subtitles

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Event source:
https://amsterdamalternative.nl/agenda/14688/translating-ulysses

Filmhuis Cavia

Translating Ulysses

Performance

We're very excited to welcome Asian Movie Night on the 16th of December. They will present their travelling winter festival called Listening Nearby, Through Soils and Seas; an in-depth program with film screenings, performance-workshop and discussion, focused on Asian indigenous cosmologies, knowledge, and struggle. In Cavia we will have two screenings; a collection of shorts at 17:00 and feature film Gaga 哈勇家 at 19:00.


Check out the full program HERE (https://filmhuiscavia.nl/programma/listening-nearby-through-soils-and-seas).

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Event source:
https://amsterdamalternative.nl/agenda/14942/listening-nearby-through-soils-and-seas-collection-of-shorts

Listening Nearby, Through Soils and Seas: Collection of shorts

This documentary tells about the colorful and cheerful history of the Amsterdam Ship of Fools, which sailed around the world for more than 30 years to bring theatre, joy and folly. At the helm is the creator of this sailing work of art: captain and actor August Dirks, who lived and worked on the Azart for more than 30 years. Amsterdam's Azartplein is named after this fool's boat. Captain August wanted to sail the VOC route, he said, but in a different way. “Not to steal and kill, but to play and share.” Now stranded – literally – on a South American beach, where the wonderful story continues, led by a local theater group.

Captain August will be present and questions can be asked to him after the film. The photo book AZART De Blauwe Schuit and film posters will be for sale this evening and can be signed by Captain August.

Line-up: Masha Novikova & Annike Kaljouw | 2023 | 83' | EN subtitles

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Event source:
https://amsterdamalternative.nl/agenda/14941/azart-come-make-art-qa-with-captain-august

Theater

Documentary

Azart – Come Make Art + Q&A with Captain August

Genre: Sex-positive
Open: 20:30 - 00:00 hrs
Tickets: € 5 / or Cineville

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Event source:
https://amsterdamalternative.nl/agenda/14732/kissable-screens-la-zombies

LGBTQIA+

Kissable Screens: L.A Zombies

Adam

Maggie

Christie

Eric

Anna

With 40 seats, Filmhuis Cavia has been offering a wide range of varied films since 1983. Classics, films with social themes and experimental films. What you don't see elsewhere, you will see in the Cavia! For only 5 euros or Cineville.

If you want to reach us, it is best to send an e-mail to info@filmhuiscavia.nl.

How to get there: go through the gate. Cavia is on the right hand side, above Sportschool Xena. Take the stairs.

Filmhuis Cavia

December 2023

Translating Ulysses

Listening Nearby, Through Soils and Seas: Collection of shorts

Azart – Come Make Art + Q&A with Captain August

Kissable Screens: L.A Zombies