📅 Date: 14th March
⏰ Time: 8:30 PM
📍 Location: SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA (Lindower Str. 20/22, Haus C, 13347 Berlin)
We would like to invite you to a special screening of short films at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA in Berlin, featuring a film of and subsequent talk with our new resident artist Quế (aka Nguyễn Đức Hùng).
https://sinematranstopia.com/de/young-birds-from-strange-mountains/short-films
Moving through memories and shifting forms, four short films trace the thresholds between humans and non-humans, the spiritual and material, past and present: the Ant-Man (Người kiến, Việt Vũ, Vietnam, 2018) portrays the search for freedom, depicting the daily life of a homosexual man whose body is inhabited by ants. Landscape of Our Body (Thân Thể Rừng Thiêng, Trâm Anh Nguyễn, Vietnam 2024) is a journey of the sacred and the corporeal through a meditation between deviant bodies and nature. In Man Dog, Dog Man (Người Chó, Chó Người, A Sông Collective, Mai Huyền Chi, Vietnam 2023) a chain of surreal events links a man walking a dog, a nose that turned into a DJ, and villagers who metamorphose through dancing. Buoyant (Bồng Bềnh, Đoàn Thanh Toàn, Nguyễn Lê Hoàng Phúc, Vietnam 2023) is a tale of a fisherman and a mermaid that draws aesthetic inspiration from the drag community in Sài Gòn, where eroticism, fantasy, and joy serve as strategies of resilience. Healthy Water with Diseases (Nước Lành Mang Bệnh, Quế aka Nguyễn Đức Hùng, Vietnam 2024) captures the lingering ghosts of war through mosquitoes. Initially screened by Cinema Con Nhà Nghèo and A Sông Collective at Nổ Cái Bùm Festival 2024, the films ultimately ask the question if understanding is necessary to feel connected.
Tickets are 9€ and can be bought online via @sinematranstopia.
Our thanks to all partners who made this event possible, including the city partnership of Hồ-Chí-Minh City and the Leipzig Department for International Cooperation, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA and Schwules Museum.
