XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin
29.05—01.06.2025
The XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin has been held annually since 2006. XPOSED was founded as a community event for experimental short film, and stands for the belief that queer stories mean more than coming out and boy-meets-boy. The festival reflects not only the diversity of sexual and gender identities, but also the diversity of filmmaking. Various forms of film are shown, including documentary, feature, hybrid, and experimental. To ensure that more and more of these queer stories are seen on the screen, XPOSED supports one filmmaker each year to realise a short film through the Queer Short Film Fund.
Each year, XPOSED shows approximately six to eight short film programmes with around 50 short films and twelve to seventeen feature-length films. XPOSED stands for a political cinema that celebrates and positively connotes otherness. Queer cinema must challenge common norms of film narrative and sometimes distance itself from mainstream cinema.
The XPOSED team organises and curates the festival with heartfelt passion and a critical social-relations perspective. Through the festival and numerous other film events throughout the year, they want to create a space for encounter and exchange—and for being touched and moved.
