A search that will never end; a search for localization and fconnection. A search that often initiates in the body, in bodies, especially of those who have been and still are marginalized. XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin presents six shorts from the past festival years which focus on this search – or rather desire – for belonging and community. Herein, the body is both location of labor and act of resistance. Images disintegrate, are cut, associatively assembled as the protagonists share: Of queer loneliness, of the transcendence of binary gender norms, of a struggle that is sometimes about survival and sometimes about acknowledging one’s own past …
// A short essay film attempting to formally combine day-to-day props and itineraries in Beirut. These elements, whether formally gendered or transformed into something that is, all become part of a personal narrative where I am made aware of my gender. This experiment challenges the notion of the binary as I navigate through the city as both male, female, and neither.… >>>
A submergence into the vivid realities of three transgender sex workers living in Cape Town, South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.… >>>
// COMME TOUS LES GARÇONS meditates on images and ideas of masculinity and transmasculine identity. The film combines found footage and personal archive material in an act of montage that mirrors the erratic and eternal piecing together of a queer identity. Showing, too, how this process first consumes, then corrupts and queers. The film attempts to trace a story of becoming, laying bare the moments of conflict along the way. It asks what it means to be and become like all the boys, what it means to want this and how the spectre of whiteness haunts this desire.… >>>
// As four Berlin-based migrant queer musicians made special songs as a surprise for their close friends, their conversations unfolded in audiovisual poetics about “reverberation” (physical phenomenon in vibrations) and state of fragility in this world. They share the issues of being vulnerable, queer kinship and realized how they can inspire and appreciate each other via music.… >>>
// This is the almost-true story of Sami. In Casablanca, he only dreams about dancing and of Egyptian divas in the hairdressing salon where he works. Until the day he meets Daniel, a lover who helps him discover Paris in the midst of a gay revolution. By mixing archive images and analogue photographs, Sido Lansari draws an intimate portrait of a young man from childhood to exile, where he discovers himself coming from the “last homosexual paradise”.… >>>
// JUCK is a 17-minute film which is a hybrid between documentary, dance and fiction. The film depicts the all-female dance group JUCK who made a name for themselves in 2013 with a video that became a viral hit all over the world. The word ”juck” is Swedish for “hump” and their groundbreaking appearance pushed the boundaries of how we are used to seeing the female body. JUCK questions the positions of object and subject. They provoke, inspire and break norms. The film asks: what is femininity?… >>>