XPOSED International Queer Film Festival

2026 films...

A Song Without Home (სიმღერა სახლის გარეშე) 

Anyab (Fangs) 

Apolo 

Black Burns Fast 

Bouchra 

Cactus Pears (Sabar Bonda) 

Familiar Places 

Flaming Ears (Rote Ohren Fetzen Durch Asche)​ 

Iván & Hadoum 

Mea Culpa (كذبة بيضاء) 

Moonglow 

---

Retrospective 1: A Collective Becoming​

 

International Dawn Chorus Day

On International Dawn Chorus Day (May 3, 2020), birds from six continents join a zoom call. They gossip about storms and cats and wires and dates. They talk about Egyptian filmmaker Shady Habash, known for his satiric anti-dictator music videos, who died the day before in Cairo’s notorious Tora prison. They wonder about Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi, famously incarcerated for flying a rainbow flag at a Cairo concert, now living as a refugee in Toronto. They don’t realize that a month later, unable to bear the pain of her prison trauma, Sarah will take her own life.

Director: John Greyson with Shady Habash, Sarah Hegazi
Country: Canada, 2020
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration: 15 min

 

A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here (Uma paciência selvagem me trouxe até aqui)

Vange, a lonely biker, is enchanted by the relationship and freedom of four girls, with whom she spends a weekend where exchanges about lesbian experiences and culture are present, accompanied by a mutual affection that gradually establishes itself.

Director: Éri Sarmet
Writer: Éri Sarmet
Country: Brazil, 2021
Language: Brazilian Portuguese
Subtitle: English
Duration: 26 min

 

I don't want to be just a memory

Fellow Berlin queer community members together mourn the loss of their dead friends due to substance abuse and mental health crisis (and the loss of urban safe spaces in general) by sharing a few personal materials, stories and honest criticism about the club/nightlife scene. Resembling glowing-in-the-dark fungi such as Panellus stipticus, they transform dead bodies and memories into a collective structure that sustains future living – radiating the light together as a network of support and care.

Director: Sarnt Utamachote
Writer: Sarnt Utamachote, Kareem Baholzer
Country: Germany, 2024
Language: English, Spanish
Subtitle: English, German
Duration: 20 min

 

Dogfriend (Hundefreund)

Director: Maissa Lihedheb
Writer: Lamin Leroy Gibba, Sailesh Naidu
Country: Germany/Tunisa, 2021
Duration: 18 min

 

Juck (Thrust)

Director: Olivia Kastebring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika Bandeira
Country: Sweden, 2018
Duration: 18 min

 

 

Retrospective 2: Call Me An Ambulance: The Beauty of Chaos

 

Badlands (Zle ziemie)

Is it Australian or Polish?

Artistic or shallow?

Brilliantly satirical or insane?

The answer to all these questions is

YES

Except that the film is Australian and not Polish, despite the writer’s and director’s Polish ancestry.

 

Director: David Blumenstein
Writer: Adam Wajnberg
Country: Australia, 2005
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration: 0:42 min

 

The Dark, Krystle

The cabin is on fire! Krystle can’t stop crying, Alexis won’t stop drinking, and the fabric of existence hangs in the balance, again and again and again.

Director: Michael Robinson
Country: United States, 2013
Language: English
Duration: 9 min

 

Terror Nullius

Director: Soda Jerk
Writer: Soda Jerk
Country: Australia, 2018
Language: English
Duration: 54 min

 

 

Retrospective 3: Performative Disruptions

 

Flores del otro Patio

In the Colombian Caribbean, a group of queer activists practice a militancy that challenges heteropatriarchal norms while engaging in other causes to collectively fight against the various social injustices that plague the region. When the management of the country’s largest coal mine announces a press conference to promote the development of mining, the group prepares to carry out a denunciatory performative action… and resolutely queer.

Director: Jorge Cadena
Writer: Jorge Cadena, Li Aparicio Candama
Country: Switzerland, Colombia, 2022
Language: Spanish
Subtitle: English
Duration: 16 min

 

PLEASE RELAX NOW

Director: Vika Kirchenbauer
Country: Germany, 2014
Language: English
Duration: 12 min

 

Passage

A foley artist creates sounds for a film starring a dressage horse and dissolves into his own imitation.

As the character in the film, played by the gender fluid performer Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, seems to transform into a gender-defying centaur, the film reflects on the boundaries between the human and the animal as well as on fictional gender roles and their transcendence.

Director: Ann Oren
Writer: Ann Oren
Country: Germany, 2020
Language: No dialogue
Duration: 13 min

 

Carrotica

A teenager is writing an explicit gay erotica in secret in his bedroom and his mother is falling in love with a carrot. They’re doing okay…

Director: Daniel Sterlin-Altman
Writer: Daniel Sterlin-Altman
Country: Germany, 2024
Language: English
Subtitle: English, German
Duration: 13 min

 

Panda Moonwalk

Since 2017 the two Giant Panda Bears Meng Meng and Jiao Qing have been hired out by China to the Berlin Zoo for millions of Euros. Unfortunately for the Zoo this profit seeking attraction did not work out as planned – in fact it worked backwards. Meng Meng, the female Panda will only walk backwards – probably protesting against her imprisonment. Surprisingly the international press takes a different, sexist route and suggests that Meng Meng’s behaviour relates to the fact that she has not yet bred and is seeking attention. Kerstin Honeit’s video aligns Meng Meng’s protest with other performances of protesting bodies using movement in public space to address grievances.

Director: Kerstin Honeit
Country: Germany, 2018
Duration: 8 min

 

Eggism

“Eggism” is a videowork that explores the boundaries of the body, the organic and the abstract. Drawing inspiration from the works of renowned French philosopher and writer Georges Bataille, the piece uses a unique combination of the human body, eggs, and line drawings to create sensual, yet abstract imagery. The addition of analog synthesizer sounds further enhances the overall viewing experience, inviting the audience to fully immerse themselves in this journey.

Director: Coco Schwarz & Alina Mann
Country: Switzerland, 2016
Language: No dialogue
Duration: 5 min

 

 

Real Snow White

The absurd logic of the ‘real character’ and the extreme discipline of Disneyland become apparent when a real fan of Disney’s Snow White* is banned from entering the park in a Snow White costume. As visitors are encouraged to dress up and a lot of costume-like merchandise is sold at the park, the full costumes are only sold for children. The Disney slogan ‘Dreams Come True’ of course means dreams produced exclusively by Disney. Anything even slightly out of control immediately evokes fear of these real, possibly dark and perverse dreams coming true. The fantasy of the innocent Snow White doing something bad is so obviously real, that the security guards and management refer to it when explaining why the visitor can’t enter the park dressed up as Snow White.

Director: Pilvi Takala
Writer: Pilvi Takala
Country: France, Netherlands, 2009
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration: 9 min

 

 

Retrospective 5: Lines of Longing​

 

The Fox Exploits the Tiger's Might

Two preteen boys discover their sexuality and the relation between power and sex, in the awkward social setting of a sleepy small town with a military base. David is the big-shot boastful son of a high-ranking officer, while Aseng’s family is an ethnic minority tobacco merchant who sells bootleg liquor.

Director: Lucky Kuswandi
Writer: Daud Sumolang
Country: Indonesia, 2015
Language: Indonesian
Subtitle: English
Duration: 24 min

 

Va-Bene

Va-Bene stands at a pivotal moment of transformation, beginning to embrace femininity within a society shaped by rigid gender norms and strong religious influence. Having preached in church for many years, Va-Bene now enters a process of unlearning and questioning deeply ingrained beliefs. As a performance artist, Va-Bene confronts these constraints, using art to challenge and expose the limitations placed on gender expression in Ghanaian society.

Experiments with Chronophotography Animation of Dance, featuring in sequence Ballet, Sanjo, Contemporary Dance, Jazz Dance, Aerial Silk, Tap Dance, Aerobics, Disco, Breakdance, Hip-Hop and Ballroom Dance.

Director: Brenda Akele Jorde
Writer: Brenda Akele Jorde
Country: Germany, Ghana, 2018
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration: 11 min

 

Bateria (Batería)

Hidden in the undergrowth of a disused military base just outside of Havana lies a refuge for gay men, for cruising, connection and imagining better futures.

Director: Dami Sainz Edwards
Country: Cuba, 2016
Language: Spanish
Subtitle: English
Duration: 16 min

SOMETHING SAID

Director: Jay Bernard
Country: UK, 2017
Duration: 8 min

 

When the Androgynous Child (Cuando el niño andrógino)

Director: Melina Pafundi
Writer: Melina Pafundi
Country: Germany & Argentina, 2019
Language: German
Subtitle: English
Duration: 9 min

Director: Shon Kim
Country: S. Korea / USA, 2019
Language: Korean, English, French, Spanish, etc.
Subtitle: English
Duration: 7 min

 

ETAGE X

Director: Francy Fabritz
Country: Germany, 2016
Duration: 14 min

 

Retrospective 6: Against the Screen​

 

Getty Abortions

What do abortions look like? What kind of images shape our view on them? And where do these images come from? The desktop essay “getty abortions” examines how German and Austrian media illustrate the topic of abortion, browsing through stock photos, teen magazines and documents of a real abortion experience. It jumps from the early 2000s to the late 19th century, seeks out feminist knowledge and chats with fictional characters. But one question remains: Why does no one look into the camera?

Director: Franzis Kabisch
Writer: Franzis Kabisch
Country: Germany, Austria, 2023
Language: English, Deutsch
Subtitle: English
Duration: 21 min

 

Blue Boy

Director: Manuel Abramovich
Country: Germany / Argentina, 2019
Language: German, Romanian
Subtitle: English, German
Duration: 19 min

Seven young men alone in a deserted bar with a film crew and the sound of their own voices as their only compa­nions. This device allows the spectator to scrutinise the micro-movements that cross their faces, and it is all too tempting: what is one of the boys thinking when he hears the playback of how he touts his clients? What does another feel listening to his own account of meeting an older man when he was only sixteen? The scenes recounted by these escort boys plunge us into their secret reality, but once again, nothing is more intimate than the faces themselves. Each seems to more or less agree with what they hear, expressed in German or Romanian: at times, they seem proud, at times amused, at times troubled. 

 

Hansa Boy etwas das kommt nie wieder vor

The Bürgermeister-Smidt-Brücke in Bremen, at the head of the Teerhof, spans the Weser to both banks, running through the heart of the German city-state. Mayor Johann Smidt was a well-known statesman in the first half of the 19th century. He is perhaps best known for founding Bremerhaven, a move intended to save the ailing Hanseatic city from the increasingly silted-up river. As a senator, he represented the city-state at the Congress of Vienna, where the new German Confederation took shape. Smidt took particular care to ensure that the determination of citizenship for Jews residing in the territory would remain a matter for the respective German states. His life’s work was to exclude Bremen’s Jews from social and political life. The Bürgermeister-Smidt-Brücke was named after Smidt in the wake of the inadequate denazification efforts following World War II. HANSA BOY ETWAS DAS KOMMT NIE WIEDER VOR addresses the bridge’s namesake directly. The film seeks to reveal the fate embedded within the unspeakable history inherent in the structure’s name.

Director: virgil b/g taylor
Writer: virgil b/g taylor
Country: Germany, 2021
Language: English, German
Subtitle: English, German
Duration: 11 min

 

A Certain Love For Symmetry
(Eine gewisse Liebe zur Symmetrie)

Of powerful women and suspicious triangles – but first we need some background knowledge.

Director: Marlene Denningmann
Country: Germany, 2019
Language: German
Subtitle: English
Duration: 8 min

 

the Sixty Nine Club

Now only a small handful of members, the Sixty Nine Club is Europe’s oldest social group for gay leathermen, founded in 1965 when homosexuality was illegal in Britain. Today the club’s last surviving older members take us through home movies and tales of debauchery, love and friendship.

Director: Rob Eagle
Country: United Kingdom, 2019
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration: 21 min

 

Barbès

Director: Randa Maroufi
Country: France, 2021
Duration: 6 min

 

Retrospective 7: Art in Motion: Tentacular Images​

 

Printed Sunset

Two ambiguous characters seated against one another, sharing an easy intimacy while enjoying the sunset. Steadily holding our gaze, the couple try to divert our attention from what turns out to be a cardboard backdrop. A syrupy soundtrack underscores the deconstruction and transformation of a classic cinema trope into a novel beauty. —IFFR

Director: Andrés Barón
Writer: Andrés Barón
Country: France, Colombia, 2017
Language: No dialogue
Subtitle: Neither English nor German
Duration: 6 min

 

Infinite Galatea (Galatée à l'Infini)

Pygmalion, disappointed of the women of his time, decides to create an immaculate woman with his own hands. He models his creation at the height of his expectations and level: she should be able to satisfy his pleasures and provide his kingdom with workforce.
A visual essay about the body as a socially constructed discourse throughout gynecology, a science serving itself of an ideological scalpel to mould gender, sexuality and desire.

Director: Maria Chatzi, Fatima Flores Rojas, Julia Maura, Mariangela Pluchino y Ambra Reijnen
Writer: Julia Maura
Country: Spain, 2017
Language: French
Subtitle: English
Duration: 17 min

 

FLESH (CARNE)

Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age.

Director: Camila Kater
Writer: Camila Kater, Ana Julia Carvalheiro
Country: Brazil, Spain, 2019
Language: Portuguese
Subtitle: English, German
Duration: 12 min

 

Dildotectonics (Dildotectónica)

In this day and age, Rebeca attempts to create a collection of non-phallic ceramic dildos. During the Inquisition, Josefa finds a dildo that is used in their forbidden love relationship with Maria. Although in different timelines, the paths of Rebeca and Josefa end up crossing each other.

Director: Paula Tomás Marques
Writer: Rebeca Letras, Paula Tomás Marques
Country: Portugal, 2023
Language: Portuguese
Subtitle: English
Duration: 16 min

 

Flora (꽃)

‘At Kindergarten I thought I could grow a penis from my vagina, just like the other boys.’

Although Chaerin Im was born as a woman, she never had affection or interest in objects or properties that corresponded to the category of ‘feminine’. At the same time she never had the feeling that she should have been a man. Through twist and turns of uncanny sculptures resembling a penis and/or vagina or both, Chaerin questions the general gender connotations.

Director: Chaerin Im
Writer: Chaerin Im
Country: South Korea, 2018
Language: English
Duration: 4 min

 

I am a Flower

Queer artist Sam, on the verge of fully transforming into a flower, spends one final day at a lavish spa with their mother.

Director: Ariel Victor Arthanto
Writer: Ariel Victor Arthanto
Country: Germany, 2024
Language: English
Subtitle: English, German
Duration: 13:15 min

 

BOOKANIMA: Dance

BOOKANIMA, a compound word of ‘Book’ and ‘Anima’, is Experimental Animation project to give new cinematic life to books. It aims ‘Book Cinema’ in the third scope between Book and Cinema by Chronophotography Animation, paying homage to Edward Muybridge and Entienne-Jules Marey.

Director: Shon Kim
Country: S. Korea / USA, 2019
Language: Korean, English, French, Spanish, etc.
Subtitle: English
Duration: 7 min

 

The Comic Sans Video

The Comic Sans Video is a “desktop cinema” essay on the ways in which taste is determined by race, class, gender. Provoked by the Twitter response to the Eric Garner “I Can’t Breathe” t-shirt design, the video draws in equal parts on the theoretical writings of Pierre Bourdieu and conversations with two colleagues and my mother to reflect on both the public discourse and my own aesthetic prejudices.

Experiments with Chronophotography Animation of Dance, featuring in sequence Ballet, Sanjo, Contemporary Dance, Jazz Dance, Aerial Silk, Tap Dance, Aerobics, Disco, Breakdance, Hip-Hop and Ballroom Dance.

Director: Roger Beebe
Country: USA, 2018
Language: English
Duration: 8 min

 

Retrospective 8: Living Lineages

 

Beat Goes On

Beat Goes On is an impressionistic portrait of the activist Keith Cylar (1958–2004), co-founder of Housing Works and a central figure in the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) New York City. A fellow harm reduction activist recalls how “Keith moved from mixing with the government, to threatening the government, to beating the government—all in the space of five minutes.” By resurfacing and weaving together archival media of Cylar’s own words and actions, this video endeavors to convey—in the space of about five minutes—some of the personal charisma, political savvy and fearlessness that characterized Cylar’s advocacy.

Director: Shanti Avirgan
Country: USA, 2019
Language: English
Subtitle: English, German
Duration: 8 min 51 sec min

 

Pier 34 New York, Summer 83

Summer 83, NY. An abandoned warehouse on the banks of the Hudson River, Pier 34, at the foot of the World Trade Center, delivered to the elements, to anonymous homosexual encounters, to artists from the East Village, who came to find refuge in this cathedral space to create immense frescoes on the decrepit walls, sculptures placed in space. No signed work. An ephemeral museum, a place of artistic and sexual freedom, destroyed by the city a few months after this shooting. A unique testimony filmed in 16mm B&W in 1983 and edited 40 years later, un 2023.

Director: Marion Scemama
Writer: Marion Scemama
Country: United States, 2023
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration: 9 min

 

I've Heard Stories

I’ve Heard Stories is a short animated film staging a story that
took place at the Carlton hotel in Beirut.
In this video, Marwa Arsanios attempts to piece together
rumors surrounding the now demolished Hotel Carlton. The
hotel was a popular meeting place for gay men living in Beirut,
Lebanon, where homosexual acts are considered illegal. At
that time (1973 to 1993), the hotel was also the setting of three
murders that might or might not have been related to these
sexual encounters.
Among the victim of these (probably) passionate crimes was
the Lebanese politician and businessman Henri Pharaoun.
Known as a collector and the richest man in Lebanon during
most of his lifetime, Pharaoun was stabbed multiple times by
an unknown assailant (his lover, driver or cook). Nora was the
only witness to this murder. The nature of the murders went
unreported.
The animation explores different ways of narrating Arsanios’
reconstruction of the event through drawings and videos,
gossip and facts, in an effort to give these crimes their place
in the history of the city.

Director: Marwa Arsanios
Writer: Marwa Arsanios
Country: Lebanon, 2008
Language: No dialogue
Subtitle: English
Duration: 4:48 min

 

OCEANIA

Najib, a reserved 16-yo teenager, experiences solitary holidays, engrossed in video games. With the disappearance of his elderly and lonely Algerian neighbor, he discreetly takes possession of the apartment keys, gradually immersing himself in the narrative of a bygone generation. This exploration encourages him to open up to the world, to explore new islands before they fade away.

Director: Valentin Noujaïm
Writer: Valentin Noujaïm
Country: France, 2024
Language: French
Subtitle: English
Duration: 24 min

Sitt el Beit (The Lady of The House)

Director: Anya Kneez
Country: USA,
Duration: 9 min

 

The Garden of Fauns (El jardín de los faunos)

Retracing the life and work of Spain’s Nazario Luque, groundbreaking queer artist and author of the first openly gay underground comic strips. Romantic and sharply provocative, El jardín de los faunos is an intimate portrait of a man who devoted his life to love and freedom, amplifying queer culture in a country still discovering its freedom after Franco’s dictatorship.

Director: Pol Merchan
Writer: Pol Merchan, Mònica Rovira
Country: Germany / Spain, 2022
Language: Spanish
Subtitle: English
Duration: 24 min

 

---

Short Films: Opening Night Shorts: BODY FUTURES​

 

The Erotics of Abolition

A love letter to my ancestors, my body and the sweet ways we decolonize empire from our sacred selves.

Director: Junauda Petrus
Writer: Junauda Petrus
Country: United States of America, 2020
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration:  8:47 min

 

The AIDS Club (El Club del SIDA)

Taking its title from a sensational telenovela episode, El Club del SIDA cycles through a lifetime of heavily stigmatizing images about HIV and AIDS. Delgado plays with multiple aesthetics—documentary, horror, comedy—to explore the various relationships they have had with AIDS over the course of their life.

Director: Milko Delgado
Writer: Milko Delgado
Country: Panama, 2024
Language: Spanish
Subtitle: English
Duration: 7:30’ min

 

Lázaro's Temptation (A Perdição de Lázaro)

Lázaro spends a lot of time at the gym, but the expected results never come… until one day he signs up for the premium plan.

Director: Diego Paulino
Writer: Diego Paulino
Country: Brazil, 2026
Language: Portuguese
Subtitle: English
Duration:  26 min

 

Trivakra

Trivakra moves through the memories of a child, crossed by gender biotechnologies that
reshape their body and their history. The gushing syringe of a travesti ritual of hormonal
transmutation opens a glitch in the matrix of gender and video, where bones and skins
are dematerialized into cyberspace.

Director: Sofia Angst
Writer: Sofia Angst
Country: Brazil, 2025
Language: no dialogue
Duration:  10 min

 

RAMPAGE! (or the parade)
(RAMPAGE! (o ang parada))

On the first of May, three queer friends band together to plan a heist. Their sister, Bonita, murdered and subsequently taxidermied to look like a saint will be paraded in a procession held by the authorities. The three go up against a surveillance state to reclaim the body of their fallen sister.

Director: Kukay Bautista Zinampan
Writer: Kukay Bautista Zinampan
Country: The Philippines, 2024
Language: Filipino, Swardspeak
Subtitle: English
Duration:  20 min

 

Where is Mymye Mastroiagnne?
(Onde Está Mymye Mastroiagnne?)

A mysterious hairdresser loses a friend in a metaverse full of nightclubs and enchanted beings. Another friend helps searching, while telling their stories as strippers who made lots of money until she disappeared.

Director: biarritzzz
Writer: biarritzzz and Anti Ribeiro
Country: Brazil, 2023
Language: Brazilian Portuguese
Subtitle: English
Duration:  17 min

 

Short Films: Women Make Waves Taiwan: Myriad Forms of Love and Resistance​

 

Military Dog (軍犬)

Nothing gives a young officer more pleasure than being a loyal dog to his master.

Director: Wang Ping-Wen
Country: Taiwan, 2018
Language: Mandarin
Subtitle: English
Duration:  11 min

 

Looking for Jiro

Director: TT Takemoto
Country: USA, 2011
Language: English
Duration: 6 min

 

What U Wanna Do

A euphoric and liberating music video of pure ferality, WHAT U WANNA DO is a reclamation, a re-wilding, a return of the gaze, characterized through the film’s three protagonists: 丑 (clown), 女 (woman), and 馬 (horse). Director and movement artist Jas Lin, together with performers Jinjabrew and Jason Vu, transmute the energy of “What U Wanna Do” by OHYUNG & Matt Evans into a sacred joke, taunting normies and racists, capitalists and homophobes.

Director: Jas Lin
Country: USA, 2021
Language: English
Duration:  3 min

 

Pswagi Temahahoi (2024)

Nisay, an actress haunted by loss, returns to Cambodia and to Thida — a love once forbidden. Bound by the weight of family and society, their passion survives only in memory and performance, until it must fade away.

Director: Ciwas Tahos (Anchi Lin)
Country: Taiwan, 2024
Subtitle: English
Duration:  8 min

 

As a Bird That Briefly Perches (擇鳥記)​

Departing from the filmmaker’s personal experience as a diasporic artist, this three-part video work is a cinematic diary that weaves together her sentiments about homeland with reference to the geology of Hong Kong; an analogy between closeting and greenhouse gardening; and her reflections on the choice of living abroad as she studies the everyday life of migrant farmers and their adaptation on foreign soil, reinterpreting agricultural processes and the migration of species. The film explores the implications of rooting, re-rooting and growing as the artist contemplates on the evolving dynamics between land and human.

Director: Dorothy Cheung
Country: Hong Kong, UK, 2025
Language: Cantonese
Subtitle: English
Duration:  17 min

 

My First Funeral

Living as a lesbian in Korea is hard work. I can’t think of marriage, a happy future, or my death. So this strange woman decides to have a funeral at the age of 22! Challenge the patriarchal funeral culture of Korea for the death and funeral I want!

Director: Eun-hye Lee
Country: South Korea, 2023
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English
Duration:  37 min

 

Shorts 2: MYTHS OF UNCERTAIN FUTURES​

 

ERASURE

ERASURE is an audiovisual piece that explores the entangled relationship between voice, identity, and technology. Drawing inspiration from the language and format of music videos, the work blends aesthetic experimentation with critical inquiry.
ERASURE integrates generative AI tools into the creative process, pushing the boundaries of how music and voice can be composed. Through techniques such as AI voice model training and voice cloning, ERASURE merges human and digital voices to reveal how artificial systems encode and reproduce social biases. In most of the piece, the human vocalists never actually spoke the words being heard, yet the AI replicates their voices so precisely that it becomes nearly impossible to discern the difference.
By training AI on a group of queer and trans vocalists, the piece celebrates the fluidity and multiplicity of identity while exposing the ethical and technical tensions surrounding representation, authorship, agency, and deepfake technologies. It asks: Who gets to be represented? Who controls a voice? What happens when technology can replicate or alter someone’s identity? By foregrounding the political and poetic dimensions of the voice, the work exposes both the promise and the peril of AI’s attempt to emulate what is most human.

Director: Fá Maria
Country: Germany/UK, 2025
Language: English, spanish
Subtitle: English
Duration: 16:31 min

 

More Than Happy

In a queer utopia, two couples sit in conversation at a restaurant, waiting for service that will never arrive. As hunger grows, they talk about time and happiness. One dreams of a mother’s blessing, another of ghosts in the past. Not wanting to wait forever, they decide to leave.

Director: Wei Keong Tan
Writer: Wei Keong Tan
Country: Singapore, 2025
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration:  06’58” min

 

The First Times (Le prime volte)

Emilia and Caterina write letters to each other revisiting their adolescent memories and earliest experiences at a boarding school in the 1950s. Did they choose the lives they truly wanted, or only those that they dared to imagine?

Director: Giulia Cosentino and Perla Sardella
Writer: Giulia Cosentino, Perla Sardella
Country: Italy/Spain, 2025
Language: Italian
Subtitle: English
Duration: 16 min

 

Erogenesis

In the aftermath of a mysterious disaster, the few humans left find themselves unable to reproduce the species. All hope lies in the hands of five women who have developed the technology to create human life outside the body.

Director: Xandra Popescu
Writer: Xandra Popescu, Clara Puhlmann
Country: Germany, 2025
Language: English
Subtitle: German
Duration:  15 min

 

My name is Lilith (Mon nom est Lilith)

My name is Lilith. I am the first woman, created alongside Adam. My encounter with Eve will shatter every stereotype that we’ve been trapped in.

Director: Leo Luna Robert-Tourneur
Country: Belgium, France, 2025
Language: French
Subtitle: English
Duration:  14 min

 

A Black Fairytale

We follow the day of princess, who lives deep under the sea and is called by cauri shells to travel across time and space. On their journey they become a witness of possibilities of black resistance and existence. In three worlds they encounter three figures, each sharing a glimpse of their story, making different black experiences and forms of knowledge visible. All encounters are materialized in a small object that Princess archives and cares for with their community.

Director: Kim Sanou, Isabelle Edi and Mariama Sow
Writer: Kim Sanou, Isabelle Edi and Mariama Sow
Country: Austria, Germany, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, 2026
Language: English, German, French
Subtitle: English
Duration:  23 min

 

Shorts 3: I BARELY RECOGNIZE YOU

 

Warm Shadows (Nighiyaan Chhavan)

At fifty, Priya sees the sea for the first time. Standing at the shoreline at dusk, she faces an expanse she has never allowed herself to imagine. Across the world, Raag, in his twenties, rides through the outskirts of Busan in a taxi, suspended between movement and return. A fragmented voice-over binds them, revealing a relationship shaped by silence, care, and unspoken truths.

Raag asks Priya why she allowed her in-laws to change her name. She answers simply: there was never much of a choice. In memories that surface and recede, Raag photographs Priya as she washes clothes. On a rooftop where laundry dries in the wind, a hesitant confrontation unfolds about Raag’s sexuality. He withdraws, avoids her gaze, and in that moment, they unknowingly come out to each other. Only later does Raag understand that Priya, too, was revealing herself.

As Priya steps into the sea, allowing the waves to consume her, Raag arrives home and reflects on the image of his mother’s happy marriage, an inheritance of love that is both sustaining and incomplete. Across distance and time, mother and son share an intimacy born not of declarations, but of what is finally allowed to be felt.

Director: Anonymous
Writer: Anonymous
Country: Myanmar, 2025
Language: Burmese Language
Subtitle: English
Duration:  16:23 min

 

Thunder Bird

Director: Anonymous
Writer: Anonymous
Country: Myanmar, 2025
Language: Burmese Language
Subtitle: English
Duration:  16:23 min

In a wide field, beside the night market where the pagoda festival has taken place, there is a 65-year-old gay, is performing with the old songs on a shaky theatre stage underneath the spotlights. She has covered the wrinkles and smile lines with a thick makeup. Her performance and dance are as active as a youngster. She is the second generation and the leader of Thunder Bird troupe, which is established 50 years ago, Mommy Soe a.k.a Phyu Hnin Mg. It is the first and only entrepreneur artist group capable of making the conservative Myanmar society accepted them around in 1980s, in the socialist time ruled by U Ne Win. There were a lot of audience who accepted, loved and came to watch them. But there were also a few who threw rocks violently and shouted and mocked at them: ‘Homo! Faggot!’. When there was no dancing stage, Mommy Soe worked as an assistant make-up artist in her friend’s beauty salon. 

 

LESPRI

An unnamed narrator uses found footage from his childhood in an attempt to paint a portrait of his father and their painful relationship. The film takes place at the International African Arts Festival, a celebration of the diaspora that I’ve attended since I was a child.

Director: Jard Lerebours
Writer: Jard Lerebours
Country: United States, 2024
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration: 5 min

(Undisclosed film name)

Director: Anonymous
Writer: Anonymous
Country: Tunisia,
Language: Arabic, English
Subtitle: English
Duration:  17 min

 

As Told by a Corpse

At a traditional naming ceremony, family members pray and swoon over the birth of an alleged baby girl, kicking off the demise of an entity resistant to the identity imposed upon them.

Director: Yace Sula
Country: USA, 2025
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration: 5 min

 

Until We Return

Until We Return drifts between memory and dream, moving from the flicker of a sixth birthday on VHS to the final unknowing farewell of a vanished home. Unfolding like a passage along the Nile, through dreamlike currents of Cairo where memory and presence blur, part vision, part yearning, part possibility. Upon its waters, a fragile utopia awakens, a world where separation never came to be, where return is still within reach, and the home once lost flows back into being.

Director: Huss Al-Chokhdar
Writer: Huss Al-Chokhdar
Country: Scotland/Egypt, 2025
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration:  11 min 

 

Dancing Fireflies (Danzan Las Luciérnagas)

Babylon Kreuzberg

29.05.2026 – 20:30

Danzan Las Luciérnagas is a sci-fi rom-com short film focused on Keke, a wise black trans woman in Cali in 4021, who, after being accepted to be a biologist in the second generation of humans to migrate to Mars, doubts whether she will have the courage to leave Planet Earth and her three loves with it.

Director: Eleggua Luna Laverde
Writer: Eleggua Luna Laverde
Country: Colombia, 2025
Language: Spanish
Subtitle: English
Duration:  19 min

 

Shorts 4: YOU PAY, I DESIRE

 

Scorpionikas – Countermanifesto (Escorpiônikas – Contramanifesto)

In a fusion of manifesto and performance, “Scorpionikas” crosses three continents to follow an insurgent collective—trans women, sex workers, and racialized and gender non-conforming voices—as they confront and dismantle the colonial and patriarchal systems that oppress them. Through radical acts of resistance, captivating performances, and intimate interviews, the film intertwines their stories with haunting archival footage: from the brothels of the Klondike Gold Rush in the 1890s to the heart of 1990s Brazil, and a convent turned art center of 2025s Barcelona.

Director: Bruna Kury, Nisha Platzer, Matheus Mello
Writer: Gisele Maués, Bruna Kury, Matheus Mello
Country: Spain, Brasil, Canada, 2025
Language: Portugues, Spanish
Subtitle: English
Duration: 12 min

 

The Jezebels

After two years of sluttifying Brussels, the founders of Jezebel Studio — joined by students, friends, and allies — come together for an unapologetic deep dive into the Jezebel universe. A vibrant video portrait of the Brussels-based queer pole dance collective, redefining movement through avant-garde artistry, from their first steps to their latest challenges.

Director: Thanasis Tsimpinis
Country: Belgium, 2025
Language: English, Dutch
Subtitle: English
Duration:  21 min

 

I Really Want To Get Fucked

A nonbinary transmen of colors journey and reflections through sex work, trauma without being able to get penetrated and the complications this bring with it.

Director: Robin Astera
Writer: Robin Astera
Country: Germany, 2024
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration:  5:55 min

 

The Key to Dreams

Set in a lush, otherworldly garden, The Key to Dreams opens a portal into the subconscious of performer-director Gerard X Reyes, traversing the seductive and disorienting terrain of queer erotic cinema.

 

Director: Gerard X Reyes, Poppy Sanchez
Writer: Gerard X Reyes, Pina Brutal
Country: Canada/Germany, 2024
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration:  7 min

 

You're not a regular: A porn made for Almans

A migrant transmasc sex worker tries to seduce you into becoming his client. Would you? Follow him through the dark streets of a hostile, nightmarish Berlin, where reflections and recollections blur the lines between personal and collective memory.

Director: Silicone Pussy
Writer: Silicone Pussy
Country: Germany, 2025
Language: English, German, Farsi
Subtitle: English
Duration:  25 min

 

Picumã

Picumã is an urban western that follows the journey of three trans women. One of them, Cleo, mysteriously disappears. Lua and Shaiene set out on a search to uncover their friend’s whereabouts. Time is running out, and their success will determine whether Cleo lives or dies.

Director: Sladká Meduza
Writer: Sladká Meduza
Country: Brazil, 2025
Language: Portuguese
Subtitle: English
Duration:  19 min

 

Shorts 5: BORDERS, BODIES

 

The Martial Forest

In a dystopian present, exiled Kung Fu master Big Sister 13 leads a crew of trans and queer fighters who reclaim a forgotten zone and transform it into the Martial Forest, a secret training ground where care is as powerful as combat. Together, they fight to survive rising violence and build a future rooted in chosen family and trans resistance.

Director: J Triangular
Writer: J Triangular
Country: Taiwan/Colombia, 2025
Language: Mandarin and Cantonese
Subtitle: English
Duration:  8 min

 

Crossing the River

Columbus did not discover America in 1492, but it was the beginning of colonialism that also brought the colonial thinking of the two-gender system & othering. Crossing the river is not only about people from Mexico, Central- and South America trying to cross the border to the United States looking for a better life, but also about Transpeople crossing the gender border.

The recent developments in the USA in dealing with indigenous people, whom they call migrants and/or trans people, are just the consequences that have been apparent for a long time.

Director: Manuel Ricardo Garcia
Writer: Manuel Ricardo Garcia
Country: Mexico / Germany, 2024
Language: english and spanish
Subtitle: English
Duration:  18 min

 

ITS JUST A BURNING THOUGHT (هذا البيت يحترق)

A faceless figure on a quiet journey of release. Cradling a sheeted pillow, they moves through desert rain and across a river, carrying an unseen weight. shot in negative, they ghostly figure becomes a symbol of transition. In the final act, they buries the pillow, while fire flickers beside them suggesting both surrender and persistence. The film reflects on the quiet rituals of letting go, inviting viewers to project their own meanings onto this universal experience of transformation.

Director: Firas Ben Ali
Country: Tunisia, 2024
Language: No Dialogue
Duration:  8 min

 

Unbelong

At its heart, „unbelong“ is a philosophical inquiry posed through visceral experience. The narrated poem questions whether we move through time or time moves through us, capturing the profound stillness of a moment when everything changes. It’s about the act of abandoning a home that abandoned you first, and the sharp blade hidden in the question, „Where are you from?“

„unbelong“ is for anyone who understands that migration is not a simple journey but a rupture, and that for some, movement is not freedom but a painful necessity for survival. It is a work of grief, hope, and transformation.

Director: Pars Loren
Country: Germany, 2025
Language: English, Turkish
Subtitle: English
Duration:  8:27 min

 

Homunculus

Homunculus displays the wandering of a man in quest for other men.
He will realize along his travels that people see him as an «Arab», some ambiguous, virile, and powerful entity both celebrated by white gay males and hated by French police forces.

Director: Bonheur Suprême
Country: France, Italy, 2025
Language: French, (English – Italian – Russian)
Subtitle: English
Duration:  17 min

 

WHAT YOU WILL DO WHEN THE WAR CONTINUES?

‘What You Will Do When the War Starts?’ is the question that Vladislav Plisetskiy asked himself a month before the full-scale invasion, when Russia was rattling its weapons at the Ukrainian border. The artist found his answer and decided to make a movie — this is how the idea of a trilogy was born, in which he wonders about potential actions in case of the start, continuation, and the end of the war. What You Will Do When the War Continues? is the second part of the trilogy. The new work reflects how the chaos of the full-scale invasion is mounting, and affecting, among other things, the Ukrainian queer community, LGBTQ+ rights, and their involvement in the war.

The movie starts with a visual narrative of the artist’s own life. Growing up in Murmansk (Russia), he ended up in an orphanage when his father committed a crime. Later, he went to stay with relatives in Donetsk, and eventually arrived in Kyiv, where he joined the art and queer communities. For Plisetskiy, a phone conversation with his father becomes an introduction to the wartime events of the future, also highlighting the contrast between Ukrainian and Russian societies and their political sentiments.

What Will You Do If the War Continues? depicts the close ties between the personal and the political. The eccentric and transgressive performances, art, and parties in which Plisetskiy freely expresses himself and blurs the boundaries of gender identity are replaced by wartime turmoil and mobilization processes in society and artists’ close community. Here, different destinies and aspects of today’s reality intersect: the tragic and the comical, the everyday and the carnival. The movie ultimately captures the absurdity, the certain madness of this moment in history where hostile ideologies and life contexts coexist and confront each other against the backdrop of the war.

 Director: Vladyslav Plisetskiy
Writer: Vladislav Plisetskiy
Country: Ukraine, 2025
Language: Ukrainian , Russian
Subtitle: English
Duration:  38.45 min

 

Shorts 6: EMERGING ECOLOGIES

 

This is not your Garden
(Este no es tu jardín)

Rooted in wetlands, páramos and centennial forests at the verge of disappearing, memories and a speculated future collide. 500 years of exploitation, exile and resilience are nourished by a collective pain and a desire to crack through it all.

Director: Carlos Velandia, Angélica Restrepo
Writer: Carlos Velandia
Country: Colombia, 2025
Language: No Dialogue texts on screen in Spanish
Subtitle: English
Duration: 12 min

 

I've Heard a Siren Calling

Nev is a young Trans woman in the early stages of her transition. In the small fishing town where she lives, she grapples with navigating isolation and managing her doubts of reintegrating back into the world she loves, being on the water, in the waves…surfing.

Director: Dylan Mitro
Country: Canada, 2025
Subtitle: English
Duration:  12 min

 

Swan Lake (Schwanensee)

When we are ill, all we want is one thing – to stop being ill. The filmmaker sees a swan in a duck pond and dreams with Long Covid of the realm of the healthy. An essay about enchanted sick people and dreaming birds.

Director: Stella Deborah Traub
Writer: Stella Deborah Traub
Country: Germany, 2025
Language: German
Subtitle: English
Duration:  5:33 min

 

How a River Is Born (Como Nasce um Rio)

Ayla wakes up in a mountainous landscape, surrounded only by vegetation and a river. Driven by curiosity and a desire to get to know the place, she goes on a journey of discovery and diving. As she discovers where she is, she also discovers herself.

Director: Luma Flôres
Writer: Luma Flôres
Country: Brazil, 2025
Language: No Dialogue
Duration:  8 min

 

Eyes to See

Eyes to See is a short docu-art film, narrated by Queer Khoe Elder Dr. Yvette Abrahams, that explores Queer life within indigenous Southern African knowledge systems. Through the lens of Khoe heritage, this film delves into how queerness is inherently woven into African cultural and spiritual practices.

Director: Haneem Christian
Country: South Africa, 2025
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration:  14 min

 

Emergencies

A Singaporean man mixes up two memories: one of a colonial-era propaganda film about communist insurgencies in rubber plantations, and another of his Malaysian ex-playmate.

‘Emergencies’ dwells in the memories of multiple entities – those of European planters, Southeast Asian coolies, communist terrorists, suspects of being communist terrorists, modern day rubber fetishists, the land transformed for agricultural purposes, and the Western studio films made there – tuning into the tensions that emerge from their ambiguous and sometimes contradictory interactions.

Director: Bart Seng Wen Long
Country: Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, UK, 2025
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration:  15:00 min

 

Water Sports

The Teacher believes that children are our future. He says to teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. Jelson and Ipe, students deep in love, undergo trials of the mind and body as they prepare themselves to survive a world devastated by climate change. Though life may be harsh and unforgiving, they believe what their teacher says in that a strong heart and mind can triumph with an iron will. But Jelson and Ipe soon learn that maybe the best way to survive the end of the world is to simply just live, laugh, and love.

Director: Whammy Alcazaren
Writer: Whammy Alcazaren
Country: Philippines, 2024
Language: English, Tagalog, Hiligaynon
Subtitle: English
Duration:  19’35’’ min

 

Shorts 7: MANIFESTO

 

ZAGÊRO

It’s so normal to be normal, isn’t it?

Director: Victor Di Marco and Márcio Picoli
Writer: Victor Di Marco
Country: Brazil, 2024
Language: Portuguese
Subtitle: English
Duration:  15 min

 

Unfortunately Wonderful Difficult

A modestly furnished apartment becomes overcrowded with its inhabitant’s emotional life: feelings of inadequacy take over the kitchen, quieted anger spreads all across the walls and moments of performed healing find their way within the living room space.

Unfortunately_Wonderful_Difficult follows O in his perpetual attempts of mapping out the various unpredictable actions he instigates inside his ascetic living and studio space. Through this elaborate and ambiguous process, pieces of green tape become the score for a never-ending series of routines and commonplace rituals, slowly revealing the ceremonial patterns behind his everyday life. A cartography of queer desire, ancestral grievances and buried rage is slowly taking over the entire apartment and remodels O’s solitude into a restorative routine of dramatic intentions.

Director: Kumar Muniandy and Mădălina Zaharia
Writer: அவ்ரீனா Avrina, Kumar Muniandy, Mădălina Zaharia
Country: Germany, United Kingdom, 2025
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration:  17 minutes 23 seconds min

 

Floraison

Together with his partner Mireille, Wes dives into his first ballroom night—and discovers a community where he is truly seen for the first time.

Director: Les Lónsu
Writer: Les Lónsu
Country: Germany, 2025
Language: German, English
Subtitle: English
Duration: 8 min

 

(UNTITLED)2025

(UNTITLED)2025 is an incantation to our Indigenous ancestors from the Global Majority who experienced enforced binary genders, colonialism and the theft of land and resources. Campbell X explores these acts of violence and genocide through a lyrical script, innovative camera techniques which explore the human form in close detail, a haunting soundscape and visuals from lush and devastating extraction from both countries and bodies.

Director: Campbell X
Writer: Campbell X
Country: United Kingdom, 2025
Language: English, Roma, Zulu, Hijra Farsi, Māori, isiZulu
Subtitle: English
Duration:  7:40 min

 

Cairo Streets

January 2007. I am back to Cairo. For work. You have changed your phone number, Omar. I must find you. I love you… Abdellah.

Director: Abdellah Taïa
Writer: Abdellah Taïa
Country: France, 2025
Language: Arabic / French
Subtitle: English
Duration:  19 min

 

Taxi Moto

Prevented from making his film, a director reinvents its images elsewhere, with another actor. As they search for each other, cinema becomes an act of love and intimate poetic resistance.

Director: Gael Kamilindi
Writer: Gael Kamilindi
Country: Switzerland, France, 2026
Language: French
Subtitle: English
Duration:  20:50 min

 

Shorts 8: IF I CAN SMELL YOU FROM AFAR

 

The Blue Sunshine Love (รัก…ฉันเหงาในเมืองใหญ่)

A 23-year-old indigenous gay man working on Khao San Road meets a Chinese tourist from England. As he gets to know the foreigner, he ponders his life, his family, and his future.

Director: Pakin Dumsee
Writer: Pakin Dumsee
Country: Thailand, 2025
Language: Thai/English
Subtitle: English
Duration:  30 min

 

Working Class (İşçİ Sınıfı)

A fictional manifesto by working-class men from Turkey who desire to be more sexually fetishized. Subverting nationalism with the tools of gay pornography, this essay film mocks today’s sexual caution and the art world’s romanticization of the lower classes. Scenes of demolishing buildings merge with the poetic view of a harbor under snow, paralleling the contrast between the aggressiveness of physical labor and the emotional vulnerability of hardworking men.

 

Director: Nadir Sönmez
Writer: Nadir Sönmez
Country: Turkey, 2025
Language: Turkish
Subtitle: English
Duration:  6.47 min

 

Jasmine That Blooms in Autumn

Love blossoms secretly between two elderly women at a senior care home while the spectre of patriarchy looms large overhead.

Director: Chandradeep Das
Writer: Rahul Roye, Chandradeep Das
Country: India, 2025
Language: Bengali, Hindi
Subtitle: English
Duration: 14:44 min

 

Casual (En Jeg Ser)

CASUAL is a sensual short about negotiations of intimacy in casual relationships. Two strangers wake up together in a sunny bed. They’re young, queer and enjoy the thrill of their casual fling. They have nothing to lose, but which is more vulnerable to share with a stranger – your sexual desires or romantic dreams?

Director: Kauli Green
Writer: Andrea Eiland Ohrt
Country: Denamrk, 2025
Language: Danish
Subtitle: English
Duration:  8:31 min

 

Our Joyful Endings
(Nos Fins Joyeuses)

Our Joyful Endings follows the diary of a trans-masculine person who sees his own and others’ views of his body change during his transition. Between desire, apprehension and questioning. From there, comfort grows with people who share this experience.

Director: La Fille Renne & Levon Babayan
Writer: La Fille Renne, Levon Babayan & Lou Mara
Country: France, 2025
Language: French
Subtitle: English
Duration:  6’07 min

 

Cybersex 19 (Cybersexo 19)

Based on the feature offered by dating apps that allows you to search for partners anywhere in the world, Cybersex 19 embarks on an exploration of the gay universe in the nine countries that kept their borders open to Brazilians during the pandemic.

Director: Chico Ludermir
Country: Brazil, 2025
Language: Portuguese and English
Subtitle: English
Duration:  9 min

 

Fresh as Daisy (ស្រស់ដូចផ្កា)

Two friends in their 20s, DA and SREAN, live in the same neighborhood and were each born into conservative families which never listen to them or encourage them to follow their own interests. They have bonded by privately discussing their family problems with one another.

Director: Socheata VAN
Writer: Socheata VAN
Country: CAMBODIA, 2025
Language: Khmer
Subtitle: English
Duration:  13:25 min

 

Shorts 9: WATERING THE SEEDS

 

Black Man Days (Um dia de Negão)

Three black trans men confront manifestations of their unconscious while living their daily lives in the Salvador. Each encounter reflects their internal struggles and the pressures of a society that demands a rigid masculinity. Amidst these experiences, they share reflections on the expectations of living a healthier masculinity, free from stereotypes.

Director: Rebeca Carmo and Analu Nascimento
Writer: Rebeca Carmo, Analu Nascimento and Zahran Lorenzo
Country: Brazil, 2024
Language: Portuguese
Subtitle: English
Duration:  7 min

 

Honey, My Love, So Sweet

In a decaying cinema in the heart of Manila, Life discovers first love through films and their new friend’s father.

Director: JT Trinidad
Country: Philippines, 2025
Language: Filipino/Tagalog
Subtitle: English
Duration:  20 min

 

I am Tejimola (Tejimola-he Moi)

While getting ready for the day, the protagonist feels the presence of something sinister, and soon comes to face it. During their confrontation, they turn to a childhood story for strength.
Tejimola-he moi is an animated short film that re-tells a classic Assamese folktale, through the eyes of our protagonist’s personal experiences. It talks about queerness, gender expression, and fluidity as a form of resistance.

Director: Aditav Dowerah
Writer: Aditav Dowerah
Country: India, 2025
Language: Assamese
Subtitle: English
Duration:  6:51 min

 

Rezbotanik

After heavy nights partying with drugs and sex, Rezmorah goes to the Botanical Garden of Lisbon to get sober again. More than a park, the place is a living museum: and is amidst its tropical and exotic flora that Rez talk about their relationship with the night, with that space, and with gender, wondering what plants may have to teach us about ways of seeing and thinking queer life.

Director: Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro
Writer: Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro, Rezmorah
Country: Brazil, Portugal, Spain, 2025
Language: Portuguese
Subtitle: English
Duration:  18 min

 

A is for Andra

A is for Andra is an experimental documentary film following a queer, revisionist narrative, taking as its core the story of Andra, a former MTV VJ and TV host in Indonesia from 2007-2011. Using humour, performance, and poetry, Andra tracks their evolution from a young, rising star in Bandung to a non-binary transmasculine adult living a private life as a kindergarten teacher in Berlin. Through the framing device of an entertainment variety show, the film uses found footage, movement sequences, and interview material to map the limits of expression in the early 2010s media imaginary and the gendered constraints that Andra often found themselves in, as well as the slow unlearning of their identity.

Director: Charmaine Poh
Writer: Charmaine Poh, Dirandra Sandyakala
Country: Indonesia, 2025
Language: English, Indonesian
Subtitle: English
Duration:  16:02 min

 

Girl-Boy

Four women navigate life as masculine-presenting women in Nigeria, a society with rigid gender expectations.

Director: Ajay Abalaka
Country: Nigeria, 2025
Language: English
Subtitle: English
Duration:  30 min 

---

Such Feeling (Tu uczucie) 

Terror Nullius 

The Crowd (Jama’at) 

The Hidden Face of the Earth (La Face cachée de la Terre) 

Whipping Hair! (Bate Cabelo!) 

Whisperings of the Moon (潮汐低语(Chao Xi Di Yu))

Load More

---