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In\u00a0<i>Baradiya<\/i>, a Talaandig-Manobo indigenous trans woman grapples with discrimination to uphold her community\u2019s culture to become a babaylan (shaman) amid the destruction of her ancestral land in Bukidnon, Philippines.\u00a0<i>The Flowers Stand Silently<\/i>\u00a0presents a film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, questioning the role of imagery as both testimony and instrument of violence.\u00a0<i>Filament Fortune<\/i>\u00a0reflects on radical care and tenderness among HIV-positive people.\u00a0<i>Speaking Flowers<\/i>, a Super 8 film, employs an abundance of flowers and fairy tale imagery, creating a jarring contrast between natural beauty and kitsch. Finally, in\u00a0<i>I am a flower<\/i>, Sam, a transgressive artist and flower lover, spends their day at a spa with their mother, before his final performance act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3405,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"feature":[54],"short-film":[53],"class_list":["post-3291","film","type-film","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","feature-feature","short-film-short-program-category"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shorts 2 \u2013 As We Bloom - XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/xposedfilmfestival.com\/2025\/film\/shorts-2-as-we-bloom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shorts 2 \u2013 As We Bloom - 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