Shorts 2 – Until We Meet Again
This short film program deals with grief and longing – the intense yet essential process of all queer persons in dealing with loss. It opens with Nyame Mma, which creates a space for queer/male mourning, re-kindling the tie between a queer Ghanian migrant in the West and their biological kin.
Later on we are invited to pray, accompanied by everything in our house did not seem to fit. Part cinematic ritual, part exorcism, an homage to her ancestor in Nigeria. Heart Murmurs brings us into an intimate dialogue space with Dean, a queer person in Hong Kong, who shares his story of congenital disability and HIV during the first years of the COVID pandemic, as “things leave you with scars, in the name of love”.
This dialogue continues onto Congratulations, Dx!, which portrays how Dextor finally returns to his hometown after long disappearance to confront the social scars of his past and social stigma. The program concludes with I don’t want to be just a memory, the collective homage to queer persons in the Berlin nightlife scene who lost their lives to substance-related mental health situations.
Length: 83 min
by Joewackle J. Kusi
Ghana, 2024
Fante, Ewe
(English subtitles)
27 min.
Narrative
Moviemento
31.05.2024 – 18:00
by Alicia Abieyuwa Bergamelli
Italy / Nigeria, 2023
No dialogue
6 min.
Experimental
Moviemento
31.05.2024 – 18:00
by Dorothy Cheung
Hong Kong, 2023
Cantonese
(English subtitles)
9 min.
Experimental
Moviemento
31.05.2024 – 18:00
by Mark Felix Ebreo
Philippines, 2023
Filipino
(English subtitles)
20 min.
Narrative
Moviemento
31.05.2024 – 18:00
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.
by Sarnt Utamachote
Germany, 2024
English, Spanish
(English, German subtitles)
20 min.
Documentary
Moviemento
31.05.2024 – 18:00