XPOSED SHORTS 5: BORDERS, BODIES

Borders do not only divide territories, they divide and deny bodies, identities, and histories. This programme brings together six films that explore movement across both geopolitical and intimate thresholds, where questions of migration, gender, and belonging become deeply entangled. In The Martial Forest, a group of trans and queer fighters creates a space of care and resistance against rising violence. Crossing the River links the policing of national borders to the imposition of gender binaries, tracing both back to colonial legacies. With It’s Just a Burning Thought, a solitary figure moves through a dreamlike landscape, staging a quiet ritual of release. Unbelong reflects on exile as rupture and necessity, while HOMUNCULUS examines how racialized desire shapes the perception of bodies in motion. Closing the programme, What You Will Do When the War Continues? brings personal history into collision with the realities of war, where queer lives unfold under conditions of upheaval. Across these works, borders emerge as unstable, contested processes, inscribed onto bodies that resist, adapt, and transform.