After presenting a selection of queer short films at the Women Make Waves International Film Festival (WMWIFF) in Taiwan in October 2025, XPOSED is excited to now welcome Huei-Yin Chen from WMWIFF with a guest program in Berlin. The exchange between WMWIFF and XPOSED has been kindly supported by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government, and Goethe-Institut Taipei. 

With myriad forms — from fiction and documentary to experimental film, artist film, and music video — these shorts explore ever-evolving manifestations of “performing” and “becoming”. Created by queer artists based in East Asia or of Asian descent, the films engage with and trace the presence of queer bodies and the creation of queer space. Military Dog transforms military experience into the pleasures of submission, while Looking for Jiro unveils hidden dimensions of queer sexuality in history through drag king performance. Music becomes a tour de force in WHAT U WANNA DO, where the moving body builds a sanctuary in the woods. While both Pswagi Temahahoi and as a bird that briefly perches explore the relationship between humans and land, the former reinterprets oral folklore to imagine a mythical place for women and gender-diverse bodies, whereas the latter reflects on rooting — and the process of becoming — within diasporic experience. Last but not least, My First Funeral stages a cinematic funeral that becomes both an act of defiance and of love.

https://xposedfilmfestival.com/2026/short-films-women-make-waves-taiwan/