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Jinpa (2018)
Garden Amidst the Flame (2022)
The Song of Flying Leaves (2023)
Cloud in Her Room (2020)
Virgin Blue (2021)

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2024

Seasonal Festival Autumn Edition - Cat Got Your Tongue
Seasonal Festival Summer Edition - Smooth Pink Fresh & Crude
Seasonal Festival Spring Edition - Becoming Abudance. This is the Time for Grace

2023

Seasonal Festival Winter Edition - Listening Nearby. Through Soils and Seas
Asian Animation Short Festival: Monologue of Dreams
Seasonal Festival Spring Edition - Songs of Mourning

2022

AMN X BAK: Ushiku+Panel DiscussionAMN X Kloosterkino Asian Animation Shorts Festival AMN X Focus Filmtheater/Filmhuis Cavia: The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
AMN X Filmhuis Cavia: Ushiku + Q&A with director AMN X Filmhuis Cavia: The Cloud In Her Room AMN Couch Edition: The Happiness of the Katakuris AMN X Focus/ Cavia House of HummingbirdTransformatorhuis Short Film Festival

2021

AMN x Filmhuis Cavia: ItaewonAMN x Focus: Family In The Bubble AMN x Filmhuis Cavia: Family In The Bubble Sunday Open Kino @Sonsbeek 20-24 Online Streaming with ISC Spring Festival

2020

Filmhuis Cavia Asian Animation Short Asian Animation Short Festival: AMN x KloosterKino x Focus Couch Edition: Memories  AMN x Focus: Diamond Island + Q&A with Director Valentine Edition: Love exists in movies

2019

Our Relations with the Mountain Avant Première: Parasite (KR 2019) with Artist Talk AMN Feminist Edition: Under One's Eye Couch Edition: Tropical Malady Welcome (Back) Edition Couch Edition: __________ AMN: Parallel World Couch Edition: The Great Buddha Asian Movie Night x Wenteltrap AMN: Flavour Couch Edition: Mother

2018

QUEER Asian Movie Night: Happy Together Couch Edition: Paprika AMN: Feminism Couch Edition: Dreams Asian Queer Movie Night: Handmaiden AMN: Ghost in the shell AMN: Paprika

 Asian Movie Night (2017)

@ KINO Rotterdam
@ Filmhuis Cavia Amsterdam
@ PIC Amsterdam
@ De Uitkijk Amsterdam
@ Focus Filmtheater Arnhem

@ De Kurk Arnhem
 T 18:45 
T 20:30
T 20:00
T 21:00
T 19:00
T 19:00
D 02/10/2024
D 04/10/2024
D 05/10/2024
D 16/10/2024
D 23/10/2024
D 07/11/2024

AMN Seasonal Festival - Autumn 2024
CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE

Cat Got Your Tongue is Asian Movie Night Autumn Edition, engaging with screening, poetry reading, talks and a nail salon. Films in this program share stories about people staying with difficulties and troubles in their lives while making kinship with stray cats. Their kinship doesn’t ask for reconciliation or restoration because cats don’t see sickness, disability or age as a pathology. Perhaps they think human beings are pathologic in violating life by enforcing castration or breeding. Thus the protagonists of the films are vulnerable in our eyes but not in the eyes of cats.

In Korea, there are “캣맘” or cat-moms who feed stray cats. They are often not welcomed by their neighbours who prefer to live in a “smooth city”. In a smooth city, stray cats are seen as disgusting, and the Cat-mom’s care is disorderly behaviour. Likewise, refugee centres, red-light districts, and waste disposal centres have been displaced from the city, to be moved to somewhere invisible, because their roughness ruins the clean cityscape. It makes us think about what it means to live together. What kind of city do we want to live in, and with whom? With this reflection, films encourage us to ask what care is and how two different species practice “getting on together”.

Cat Got Your Tongue is made up of 3 feature films and 2 shorts.
 
Cat Got Your Tongue will be screened at KINO Rotterdam (02.10), Cavia Amsterdam (04.10), Prostitution Information Centre Amsterdam (05.10), 
De Uitkijk Amsterdam (16.10), FOCUS Arnhem (23.10) and De Kurk Arnhem (07.11).

Join us for poetry readings after screenings in Cavia and De Kurk. 

When you encounter a cat in the street, you might feel like the observed or the observer. Who's the subject? At that moment, you and the cat are trying to move something together, creating subtle tremors in everydayness.

In this poetry reading, everyone is welcome to share their own things, moments or beings that you could call a cat, recalling "very tiny barely surviving" beings.  

PROGRAM  of KINO Rotterdam

Wednesday 02.10.2024

18:45 - 18:55 Doors open
18:55 - 19:00 Opening (5’)
19:00 - 19:11 Screening of Cat Days (11’)
19:11 - 20:30 Screening of Don’t Feed Stray Cats (79’)
22:30 End

TICKETS
€13.20 (CJP/Student €10.00)
Cineville card free

KINO

PROGRAM of CAVIA Amsterdam

Friday 04.10.2024

20:30 - 20:35 Intro (5’)
20:35 - 22:05 Screening of Cat’s Apartment (88’)
22:05 - 22:30 Poetry readings
22:30 End

TICKETS
€5,- / Cineville card free
It’s not possible to make reservations. Tickets can be bought at the bar half an hour before the film starts.

CAVIA

PROGRAM of PIC Amsterdam

Saturday 05.10.2024

20:00 - 20:05 Intro (5’)
20:05 - 20:25 Screening of Kitty Chatter (20’)
20:25 - 21:25 Screening of Lauchabo (68’)
21:30 - 22:00 Aftertalk presented by one of the window workers
22.00-23.00 BoBo Nail Salon
23:00 End

The entrance is free

PIC

PROGRAM of De Uitkijk Amsterdam

Wednesday 16.10.2024

21:00 - 21:05 Intro (5’)
21:05 - 21:25 Screening of Kitty Chatter (20’)
21:25 - 22:25 Screening of Lauchabo (68’)
22:30 End

TICKETS
€12,50 (CJP/Student 10,-) / Cineville card free

De Uitkijk

PROGRAM  of FOCUS Arnhem

Wednesday 26.06.2024

19:00 - 19:05 Intro (5’)
19:05 - 20:45 Screening of Cat’s Apartment (88’)
20:45 End

TICKETS
€12.00 (Student €8.00)
Cineville card free

Focus


PROGRAM  of De Kurk Arnhem

Thursday 07.11.2024

19:00 - 19:05 Opening (5’)
19:05 - 19:16 Screening of Cat Days (11’)
19:16 - 20:35 Screening of Don’t Feed Stray Cats (79’)
20:35-21:00 Poetry reading
21:00 End

Entrance is free

De Kurk


ABOUT

The Prostitution Information Center (PIC) is a local non-profit organization that is organized by sex-workers and is located at the heart of De Wallen in Amsterdam. The center provides accurate information from a sex worker perspective and fights the myths and misperceptions about sex work. Since the Amsterdam city council announced the replacement of the erotic center to Zuid, the PIC as well as local sex workers are facing possible eviction from the neighborhood and are being framed as criminal and unwanted.

Curator 

Hyeisoo Kim (she/her) is an artist focusing on sexuality and care through post-porn. She has worked as a programmer at Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam, collaborating with diverse communities. She is a co-organiser of the Porn Film Festival Amsterdam and Climate Performer in South Korea.


Supported by Gemeente Arnhem, Het Cultuur Fond.
Cats’ Apartment
Dir. Jung Jae Eun / 2020 / KR / 88’ / Korean w/ EN subs

Cats' Apartment is a documentary film about the migration process of cats who lost their homes due to the reconstruction of Dunchon Jugong Apartment (12,032 households) in Seoul. The area is designed for humans by humans, but many other species' lives coexist. After the complex was abandoned, it had been squatted by cats. However, their lives were at stake when demolition began. Who owns the city? Are urban spaces pursuing a 'city only for humans' without a sense of responsibility for other living things? The film conveys sympathy and comfort to all vulnerable people in the city who had to leave the area by recording violence from the cats' perspectives.

Don’t Feed the Stray Cats
Dir. Kim Hee Joo / 2020 / KR / 79’ / Korean w/ EN subs

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 sense of caring and belonging.

Lauchabo
Dir. Yann-Shan Tsai / 2023 / TW / 68’ / Mandarin w/ EN subs

In 1997, the sudden abolition of licenced prostitution in Taipei City compelled 128 licenced prostitutes to take to the streets. Bailan, a protesting sex worker, fell into a coma in 2005. Using intricate takes and archive footage, this film unfolds her life after the abolition of legal prostitution. It portrays the oppression of everyday people by policy and politics, while also highlighting warmth in relationships among people and with cats.
Tsai Yann-shan graduated from the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University and earned an MFA from the City College of New York. She began her career as an assistant director and has worked on documentary films. She has been working as a film editor since 2016.

Kitty-Chatter
Dir. Kim Bon Hee / 2022 / KR / 20’ / Korean w/ EN subs


In the countryside village of Gyeongju, a grandma from Eupcheon house lives. While it may look like she spends the whole day alone in a small kitchen, her day is quite eventful. Jjongi, a cat who keeps meowing for food at every mealtime, and her friend from Jeonan house, visit her every day. The two grandmas share a slice of watermelon, sow seeds in each other’s garden, or know that they will meet the next day again after all the bantering. Of course, Jjongi joins them by meowing.

Cat Days
Dir. Jon Frickey / 2018/ JP DK / 11’ / English


Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to the doctor. She diagnoses a harmless case of cat flu. However, according to the doctor, this means that Jiro must be a cat. As father and son try to cope with the boy’s new identity, things go awry.