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Similarly, in\u00a0<i>Water Hazard<\/i>, a young girl playfully explores femininity and gender while embracing her love for rock music and understanding of (un)changing body.\u00a0<i>Mishaps in Spacetime<\/i>\u00a0sees the universe as a playground of queer possibilities, documenting Cosmo and their spaceship\u2019s journey onto new horizons and discovering change, trust, and loss of control. Finally,\u00a0<i>Oceania<\/i>\u00a0closes the session as an ode to new voices echoing the legacies of those before them. Through Najib\u2019s accidental access to their late Lebanese neighbor\u2019s memories, we uncover connections that transcend time and biological kinship. These visions invite us, as an audience, to reimagine ourselves anew.\u00a0<i>\u201cI wanna go, you around it, with somebody new.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3411,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"feature":[54],"short-film":[53],"class_list":["post-3296","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 8 \u2013 Imagine Us New - 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-8-imagine-us-new\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shorts 8 \u2013 Imagine Us New - 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