XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin
For the 16th year, XPOSED shows film by, with and about the queer community
For the 16th year, XPOSED shows film by, with and about the queer community
On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their past.
Terra Mata – Kantarama Gahigiri
Rwanda/Switzerland, 2023, English/French (English subtitles), 10′
Genealogy of Violence – Mohamed Bourouissa
France, 2024, French (English subtitles), 15′
Suddenly TV – Roopa Gogineni
Qatar/Sudan, 2022, Arabic (English subtitles), 19′
Followed by a Q&A with Kantarama Gahigiri
Berlin, 2048: Die geniale und bedingungslose Wissenschaftlerin Pouya (Anna Rebecca Sehls) setzt mit ihrem Freund Joro (Lion Russell Baumann) alles daran die perfekte Simulation - eine neue Welt - zu erschaffen. Dabei gerät sie in einen Kampf mit Claire Mitchell (Annabelle Mandeng) vom Megakonzern „RenJi“, den Pouya nur gewinnen kann, wenn sie mit der Maschine, der KI EXIT verschmilzt und so selbst zum Impuls für das Entstehen einer neuen Welt wird.
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fighting the mass expulsion of his community by Israel's occupation since childhood. He documents the slow-motion eradication of the villages in his home region where soldiers deployed by the Israeli government are gradually demolishing houses and driving out their residents. At some point, he meets Yuval, an Israeli journalist, who supports him in his efforts. An unlikely alliance develops. But the relationship between the two is strained by the enormous inequality between them: Basel lives under military occupation while Yuval lives freely and without restrictions.
This film by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists has been made as an act of creative resistance on the path to greater justice.
In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.