RETROSPECTIVE
OUR HISTORY
Started from a shared passion for new queer independent cinema from around the world
Twenty years of shaping, forming, breaking, discovering and finding, XPOSED is about queer cinema in all it’s forms, glory, shame, distaste, trash, beauty, as well as critical, political, engaging, and radical. Sometimes it’s all in one and often beautifully divided over 90 minutes. XPOSED was started as a passion project – love for the ever-expanding possibilities of storytelling within the world of queer cinema. To this day, the festival remains that: a space created by people who enjoy organising festivals, who celebrate queer films, filmmakers and queer Berlin, and who reflect this within the programming of the festival.
RETROSPECTIVE
Mixing old and new, conventional and experimental, weird and sophisticated
By not only screening some of the newest films around, XPOSED always mixes their programs with new and old films, be it in a short film program or a feature screening with a short. XPOSED enjoys creating programs and these programs can only be created by looking at the queer perspective from all corners of the world, perspectives that challenge normative views, propose an alternate way of thinking, and approach life and story telling from another way.
Created in 2006 by Bartholomew Sammut
The XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin has built itself with the aim of creating entertaining, odd, left of centre queer film programs that also in turn create further exposure for queer filmmakers on the global queer festival circuit and beyond. You can only be you when you are truly XPOSED. This festival, in the end, is about and for you.
