XPOSED Films Against War is a film series in collaboration between XPOSED Queer Film Festival and the antimilitarist collective No More War. This is the second edition of the film series. The films showcase queer perspectives on militarism, war and colonialism.

The films of this program deal with relationships to state violence. In Monument (2025), a filmmaker tries to grapple with the relationship with their russian, nationalist father from afar. Reflections on the personal memories, media impressions and the own political consciousness are linked with the filmmakers date of birth in 315 (2023). Holding a camera, whose type is frequently used in surveillance of demonstrations by the German police, another artist travels through the country by public transport in this place, that places. over there, and here (2025) and directs his gaze towards contemporary sites of solidarity, aswell as Jewish life and memory. In Extractions (2019), a line is drawn between resource extraction and child apprehension in relation to the filmmakers personal experiences as a queer, indigenous person in the USA.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A. All films will be shown in their original language with English subtitles.

content warnings: needles

Monument

Maksim Avdeev, Germany 2024, 14'

1.5 years after fleeing Russia for being queer, filmmaker Maksim Avdeev breaks the silence with their nationalist father over the phone.

315

Daniel Jacoby, Peru/Netherlands 2023,15'

A sequence of family anecdotes and historical events coinciding with the artist's date of birth takes on a different tone as he unearths what happened in his native Peru on that specific day in 1989. The monotonous pattern of facts pertaining to the 31st of May suddenly begins to unveil connections to notions of oppressive masculinity, the nuanced tactics employed by imperialist forces, and a neoliberal dream that facilitated the neglect of an important episode in Peruvian history.

this place, that places. over there, and here

Virgil b/g taylor, Germany 2025, 15'

Demonstrations in Germany, particularly those in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, are frequently violently oppressed and surveilled by the German police. Often an officer scans the crowd with a particular model of Sony 4K camcorder on a monopod. This film takes this same mode of surveillance from Berlin, to Mannheim, to Worms, to Speyer, Mainz, to Cologne and then from the Rhine back to the Spree. Crossing Germany by train, stopping at ancient sites of Jewish life and memory and contemporary sites of solidarity. Against this mix, landscapes and crowds, an ambient soundtrack of recordings of trains, trams, church bells and organ sounds fills in the gaps.

Extractions

TJ Cuthand, Canada 2019, 15'

This film parallels resource extraction with the booming child apprehension Industry. As the filmmaker reviews her life and how these Industries have affected her, she also reflects on having her own eggs retrieved and frozen to make an Indigenous baby.