While we’re still cherishing the memories of the 19th XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, it’s time to announce our open air summer screenings! Join us at Freiluftkino Kreuzberg on August 6th for our annual 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!
August 6th, 9pm @ Freiluftkino Kreuzberg – Buy tickets here
XPOSED Open Air 2025: Queer Short Films
89 min, Q&A with filmmakers afterwards, original language with English subtitles
Oceania
Valentin Noujaïm / France 2024 / French, Arabic
Sixteen-year-old Najib luxuriates in his summer days of gaming until his mother informs him of a neighbour’s passing. Taking the keys to their apartment, he quickly discovers an unexpected world of painful questions. “Oceania is an ode to tenderness. To a new generation that carries on our struggles, that seeks to remember whilst also moving forward. A tribute to love, to the dead and martyrs, and to present history being dismantled and destroyed.”
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for Mabel Dove
Nnenna Onuoha / Germany and Ghana 2024 / English, German
Winner of XPOSED (Best Short Film) Lolly Awards 2025
When The Great Erasure interrupts her reading of Dove’s story, The Black Girl goes in search of the author. After the Feminist Bookseller and Africanist Professor do not help her, she turns to The Revisionists, in whose cyberarchive she is able to locate Dove and the two spend an afternoon together. Told in the style of a ciné-roman, the film is an homage to George Bernard Shaw and Dove’s “Adventure” novellas.
JuJu vs The Possibilities of Love, Life & Death
Htet Aung Lwyn / Thailand 2024 / Burmese
Winner of XPOSED (Best Short Film) Lolly Awards 2025
The film centers around our protagonist JuJu, a Burmese trans femme working at an independent cinema in Bangkok. There, she meets another Burmese guy, who may or may not be romantically interested in her. What follows is a series of conversations, and imaginations/scenarios in JuJu’s mind exploring the power of queer representation in mainstream media, queer identity, stereotypes, and finding love.
My Therapist Said, I Am Full of Sadness
Monica Tedja / Indonesia German 2024 / Indonesian, English
Winner of XPOSED Audience Award 2025
Monica scours archive material for answers to the question of how queer life in Berlin and the wish to be accepted by their Christian-Indonesian parents can be reconciled.
I Am A Flower
Ariel Victor Arthanto / Germany 2024 / English
Sam — a deviant artist and proud flower person — is spending one last day in a flower spa with his mother before his final performance act. Sam is fully turning into a flower, a decision hard to accept by his mother. On that last day, between over-the-top treatment and supposed relaxation, the two tries to converse, navigating between grief and love.