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Short films Queer Blossoming
XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin visits the Lenbachhaus
When:
Thu, June 4, 2026, 9pm–10.30pm
Free admission
Duration:
approx. 80 min.
What else:
No registration required.
Seating is unreserved on the chairs (limited availability) in the garden or on the lawn. In case of bad weather in the Laterne – the studio of the education department.
The films will be shown in their original language with English subtitles.
When:
Thu, June 4, 2026, 9pm–10.30pm
Free admission
Duration:
approx. 80 min.
What else:
No registration required.
Seating is unreserved on the chairs (limited availability) in the garden or on the lawn. In case of bad weather in the Laterne – the studio of the education department.
The films will be shown in their original language with English subtitles.
Flowers, trees and humans blossom in this program of queer shorts that moves from colonial binaries and planetary crisis to the intimacy of illness and parenting. Across shifting landscapes – lush, arid, urban or imagined – five short films explore queerness beyond identities, bodies, and desires. Instead, they offer sensorial experiences of a world ravaged by hot temperatures, trace colonial histories to the natural world, and invite the symbolism of flowers onto the big screen. Healing and transformation sprouts all around.
Merle Groneweg, curator at the XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, has put together a short film programme for the Buntes Garten Ciao. The films were selected in collaboration with Wen-Ling Chung and Samira Yildirim.
Short films:
Filament Fortune, Beau Gomez, Multiple Origins 2024, 10 min
Flower bouquets and video fragments merge over bodies. A poetic visual exploration of living with HIV and its stigma in different places of the world.
Flowering Man, Soumyajit Ghosh Dastidar, India, 2023, 24 min
Shashi undergoes metamorphosis when a flowering plant starts growing from inside his mouth. His distanced teenage daughter undertakes a journey towards embracing the new image of her father.
Eyes to See, Haneem Christian, South Africa 2025, 14 min
Eyes to See is a short docu-art film, narrated by Queer Khoe Elder Dr. Yvette Abrahams, that explores Queer life within indigenous Southern African knowledge systems. Through the lens of Khoe heritage, this film delves into how queerness is inherently woven into African cultural and spiritual practices.
Water Sports, Whammy Alcazaren, Philippines, 2024, 19 min
Jelson and Ipe, students deep in love, undergo trials of the mind and body as they prepare themselves to survive a world devastated by climate change. Jelson and Ipe soon learn that maybe the best way to survive the end of the world is to simply just live, laugh, and love.
I Am A Flower, Ariel Victor Arthanto, Germany 2024, 13 min
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.
The screening will take place at extra+: free entry to all exhibitions from 6 pm to 10 pm.
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