Finding ourselves and our way, longing for connection and fighting for freedom: Five short films from the XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin explore queer identities, histories, struggles and communities. Since
2006, XPOSED shows queer cinema from all over the globe in Berlin – and now in Kyiv, with a selection of films from festival editions 2021-2025.
🎤 Films are screened in their original language, without Ukrainian subtitles.
❗ These films may contain potentially triggering or disturbing elements, such as nudity.
🔞 Recommended Age: 16+
Program partner of the screening: XPOSED Berlin (DE)
Curator: Merle Groneweg
Other screening of the program: September 10, 18:20, ZHOVTEN | KLASIK
We Will Be Who We Are
Director: Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda
Country: Sierra Leone
Duration: 16
In Sierra Leone, best friends Aya and Boi decide to marry each other in an attempt to escape escape society's pressures to conform.
BUNNY DECIDES TO GO
Director: Vusala Hajiyeva
Country: Azerbaijan
Duration: 16
Home is not always a comfort zone. Sometimes the house can turn into a real hell. If the place where you are staying, your hometown and everything around you is making you uncomfortable and your life is in physical danger as the last straw, the only alternative is to run away. The isolation, fear and threats to my life in Baku led me on an unplanned trip to Tbilisi. I have to adapt to a new life in a new city, solve the problems I carried with me and “what will happen next?” Will I find an answer to this question?
FLORES DEL OTRO PATIO
Director: Jorge Cadena
Country: Colombia
Duration: 16
In the north of Colombia, a group of queer activists use extravagant performative actions to denounce the disastrous exploitation by the country's largest coal mine.
DILDOTECTONICS
Director: Tomás Paula Marques, Rebeca Letras
Country: Portugal
Duration: 15
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.
LADIES, GENTLEMEN AND EVERYONE IN BETWEEN
Director: Jad Walid
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 10
In a visual essay of day-to-day props and itineraries in Beirut, the gendered nature of Arabic is exposed. Quotidian elements, whether formally gendered or transformed into something that is, become part of a personal narrative through sound and graphic fragments.