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curator statement:
The films in this section explore identity, sexuality, and gender across diverse stories, narratives, and places, finding and creating complex communities where we can be with each other. The concept of ‘Queer’ has multiple interpretations, and this is an approximation of the various meanings we can find for it.
These seven short films range from finding something more than sex in a hook up app to reimagining 19th-century portraits from the Levant Region. They portray love and sex within a trans community in the United States, a trans woman running a phone scam in Chile, a queer family facing eviction, a lesbian migrant love story in conservative Hungary, and a failed film rehearsal exploring queer identities in Korea.
In a world that is facing the rise of fascism once again, these films remind us of how we have resisted and will continue to do so.
Ignacio Juricic
France, 16:37 min, director: Achille Bocquier
USA, 8:15 min, director: Iona Hart
Chile, 13 min, director: Vozko Ramirez
Chile, 19:50 min, director: Ale Gálvez
Korea, 8:55 min, director: Sungbin Byun
Lebanon, 4:30 min, director: Hadi Moussally
Hungary/Brazil, 20 min, director: Elissa de Brito
Welcome to the Vierte Welle Film Festival, an event dedicated to celebrating and promoting diversity, inclusion and gender equality in the film industry. In its 5th edition, our festival continues to be a vital space for showcasing the talent of filmmakers from around the world who challenge established norms and explore new narratives that reflect their vision of feminism.
On 15 and 16 March 2025, attendees will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a captivating selection of short films that address a wide range of topics, such as Berlin from a migrant perspective, various feminist Activisms around the world, the ongoing fight against violence towards women in Me Too, and reflections on the different ways of experiencing sexuality and engaging with the world in Queer.
We hope you enjoy the diversity of stories our festival has to offer and join us in celebrating the power of cinema to inspire, educate, and drive change.
Thank you for joining us for this new edition of the festival.
Anahi Mou & Gabriela Gioia
Co-directors of the Vierte Welle Film Festival
Vierte Welle Film Festival is based in Berlin, and since 2019 aims to give visibility to FLINTA+ and Queer artists to raise awareness about gender inequality, the fight against discrimination and the prevention of prejudices through citizen participation. Through fiction, documentary and experimental audiovisual projects in short format.
The work team consists of FLINTA+ people with a migrant background and feminist activists from various organizations residing in Berlin. “Fourth wave” is created as a safe space for the projection, viewing, and discussion of audiovisual content of a philosophical, political, economic, social, ecological and cultural nature, whether academic or not.
