This programme brings together stories of remembrance and transformation, each film a meditation on survival and the legacies we leave behind. In Aliens in Beirut, longing and loss blur in the wake of the 2020 Beirut Port Explosion, where a return home becomes a reckoning with identity, love, and disaster. Degenere follows Misael, a 60-year-old gay man, as he fulfills his late friend’s dream of dancing on stage, defying traditions that seek to erase queerness. Whoever Deserves It, Will Be Immortal carries the memories of generations of Cuban gay men, from persecution to liberation, reclaiming a past that refuses to be forgotten. Prayer for Tending Death infiltrates the hyper-masculine world of cockfighting, using ritual and performance to heal collective wounds. Hold Me Close captures the quiet intensity of Black queer love, an intimate archive of tenderness and endurance. Each of these films is a prayer—whether whispered in mourning, danced in defiance, or held in the arms of a lover. Together, they imagine a future where memory, love, and resistance shape the world to come.