While we’re still cherishing the memories of the 19th XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, it’s time to announce our second open air summer screening! Join us at Freiluftkino Rehberge on September 2nd for our late summer open air with shorts from this year’s festival. Make sure to come by, say hello and watch these wonderful works of art with us!
September 2nd, 7.45pm @ Freiluftkino Rehberge – Tickets here
82 min, Q&A with filmmakers afterwards, original language with English subtitles
XPOSED Open Air 2025: Queer Short Films
Dark Feverish
Wallace Douglas / Brazil 2024 / Portuguese
Gustavo, a young man passionate about the sea and photography who shares experiences through his memories the strange meaning of being black.
Content Notes: racism
Baradiya
Gab Mejia, Miko Reyes, Datu Arayan, and David Loughran / Philippines 2024 / Binukid and Bisaya
A Talaandig-Manobo indigenous trans woman grapples with discrimination to uphold her community’s culture to become a babaylan (Filipino queer shaman) amid the destruction of her ancestral land in Bukidnon, Philippines. This queer ecological story followers her life as she finds meaning in her ancestry and embraces her true destiny as the spiritual descendant of Baradiya.
Luz Diabla
Gervasio Canda, Patricio Plaza and Paula Boffo / Argentinia 2024 / Spanish, English
Martín, a flamboyant urban raver, is involved in a strange accident on the road on his way to a party in the middle of the Argentine Pampas. Finding refuge in a mysterious country grocery store and sheltered by two strange locals, Martín’s paranoia begins to take over him. As the hours progress, his perception begins to distort, unleashing disturbing visions that will lead him to confront the supernatural forces that hide in the night.
Content Notes: flashing Lights
Uncanny Home
Eric Bitencourt / Germany 2025 / Brazilian Portuguese
Two friends share the same body in virtual reality as they travel back to their home country to relive good and bad memories and reopen wounds.
Content Notes: mention of transphobia
Hold Me Close
Aurora Brachman, LaTajh Simmons-Weaver / USA 2025 / English
HOLD ME CLOSE explores the unique power and complexity of the relationship between two Queer Black womxn, Corinne and Tiana. Utilizing audio the couple self-recorded every day over the course of a season, Corinne & Tiana experience cycles of life’s joys and pains together in the home they share. Depicted through elegantly composed tableaus of domestic scenes of the couple shot on super 16mm film, paired with searingly intimate documentary audio of the womxn from life within their home, the film bears witness to the distinct constitution of their love.