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Curatorial Statement:
The films selected this year in the Queer category formally and thematically question sexual orientation, gender identity, community, sexuality, and pleasure. Through their images and sounds, they present bold, necessary, and celebratory explorations of our lives and communities.
The eight short films selected from Lebanon, Chile, Czechia, the USA, Spain, and France move across different genres such as fiction, documentary, experimental, and animation and explore with rebellion and pride the worlds they portray. Within them, intersections emerge between the celebration of the Arabic alphabet, cruising, pleasure and complicity during transition, a fantasy of a t4t romance and the tenderness of adolescent love, shared intimacies on social media, the search for a lost lesbian activism, and clashes with family and tradition. Altogether, these films present joyful, provocative, and defiant visions of what Queer culture is and can be.
Ignacio Juricic
Lebanon, 5 min, director: Hadi Moussally
France, 6:07 min, director: La Fille Renne
USA, 5:30 min, director: Wyatt Carson
Chile, 16:41 min, director: Paloma Aguilera
Czechia, 9:40 min, director: Lucie Nour Zpevakova
USA, 12 min, director: Malic Amalya
Spain, 7 min, director: Isa Saéz Pérez
Chile, 17:45 min, director: Felipe Elgueta & Ananké Pereira
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 6th 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 14 and 15 March 2026, 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 open up of new possibilities against injustice through collective resistance in Radical Care 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 (VWFF), based in Berlin since 2019, is dedicated to giving visibility to the film work of FLINTA+ and Queer artists from around the world.
Through short fiction, documentary and experimental audiovisual projects, the festival creates a safe space for screening, viewing and discussion of works that address philosophical, political, economic, social, ecological and cultural themes.
Whether academic or non-academic, these stories find their place within the festival’s curatorial categories, fostering dialogue and exchange across disciplines and perspectives.
Categories:
Berlin Migrant: Films created by migrant directors living in Berlin that bring a feminist and intersectional perspective.
Activisms: Narratives about feminist-led activism from different parts of the world that envision and demand social change.
Radical Care: Stories of women who open up new possibilities against injustice through collective resistance and radical tenderness.
Queer: Queer and FLINTA+ stories that celebrate differences and foster the fight against discrimination.
