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.
 

CATS' APARTMENT
Jung Jae Eun | 2020 | South Korea | 88’ | EN subtitles

Filmhuis Cavia is one of the venues of the Asian Movie Night programme that deals with a theme on cat and care. 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.

After the screening, there will be a poetry reading: I Will Call Those Things My Cats*

*A poem from I’m Ok I’am Pig, 2014 written by Kim Hyesoon