Film/Documentary tip top 5

Every issue we publish a tip top 5 of documentaries and films that we think are worth watching.This issues list has been created by Filmhuis Cavia. If available we share the content on our Youtube channel.

Soviet Hippies
Director: Terje Toomistu
Writer(s): Terje Toomistu
Release date: June 2017
Topic: Counter-culture, Soviet Union
Where to find: 21+22 March at Filmhuis Cavia
A documentary about a psychedelic subculture that existed in the Soviet Union during the 60s and 70s. It’s an audio-visual exploration that dives into a colorful wave of artists, musicians, eclectic drug experimenters, spiritualists, freaks and vagabonds that blossomed in Russia.

The Harvest (Mosavali)
Director(s): Misho Antadze
Writer(s):  Misho Antadze
Release date: 2019
Topic: Georgia, Bitcoin, crypto-capitalism
Georgia, that not too long ago suffered daily power outages, is one of the largest exporters of Bitcoin in the world. In the rural wine region of Kakheti, images of developmental contradiction come to the fore: Grapes grow and cows graze among transmission towers, horse carts are drawn past barns full of computer servers, feeding the speculation economy. An observational documentary that examines the politics of the landscape.

Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)
Director(s): Juan Daniel Fernández
Writer(s): Juan Daniel Fernández
Release date: 2015
Topic: Disillusioned Youth, Peru, Internet, Glitches
Where to find: hard to find, rare screenings
Luz, a teenage misfit who spends her time slacking and experimenting with drugs and cybersex, meets Junior online, an amateur porn dealer on a delusional journey regarding the end of the world and other conspiracy theories. Once they meet in the “real world”, unusual events start to unfold.

Waar de Ratten Koning zijn
Director(s): Barbara van den Uyl
Writer(s): Richard Linklater
Release date: 1985
Topic: 80s, Squatters, Amsterdam
Where to find: Youtube
A documentary about the rebellious eighties in the Amsterdam Staatsliedenbuurt, which was a kind of free state where squatters, punks and original local residents together laid down the laws. The authority of the municipality was reduced to almost zero since Mayor Van Thijn was brutally evicted from the neighbourhood at the end of ‘84.

Leaning Into the Wind
Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Writer(s): Thomas Riedelsheimer
Release date: 2018
Topic: Art
Where to find: /
Meditative documentary that follows Scottish landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy (1956) on his exploration of the world and himself through ephemeral and permanent workings on the landscape, cities and with his own body.