SHORTS
Women Make Waves Taiwan: Myriad Forms of Love and Resistance
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 Goethe-Institut Taipei.
Sputnik Kino
29.05.2026 – 18:00
Military Dog (軍犬)
Nothing gives a young officer more pleasure than being a loyal dog to his master.
Director: Wang Ping-Wen
Country: Taiwan, 2018
Language: Mandarin
Subtitle: English
Duration: 11 min
Looking for Jiro
Director: TT Takemoto
Country: USA, 2011
Language: English
Duration: 6 min
What U Wanna Do
A euphoric and liberating music video of pure ferality, WHAT U WANNA DO is a reclamation, a re-wilding, a return of the gaze, characterized through the film’s three protagonists: 丑 (clown), 女 (woman), and 馬 (horse). Director and movement artist Jas Lin, together with performers Jinjabrew and Jason Vu, transmute the energy of “What U Wanna Do” by OHYUNG & Matt Evans into a sacred joke, taunting normies and racists, capitalists and homophobes.
Director: Jas Lin
Country: USA, 2021
Language: English
Duration: 3 min
Pswagi Temahahoi (2024)
Nisay, an actress haunted by loss, returns to Cambodia and to Thida — a love once forbidden. Bound by the weight of family and society, their passion survives only in memory and performance, until it must fade away.
Director: Ciwas Tahos (Anchi Lin)
Country: Taiwan, 2024
Subtitle: English
Duration: 8 min
As a Bird That Briefly Perches (擇鳥記)
Departing from the filmmaker’s personal experience as a diasporic artist, this three-part video work is a cinematic diary that weaves together her sentiments about homeland with reference to the geology of Hong Kong; an analogy between closeting and greenhouse gardening; and her reflections on the choice of living abroad as she studies the everyday life of migrant farmers and their adaptation on foreign soil, reinterpreting agricultural processes and the migration of species. The film explores the implications of rooting, re-rooting and growing as the artist contemplates on the evolving dynamics between land and human.
Director: Dorothy Cheung
Country: Hong Kong, UK, 2025
Language: Cantonese
Subtitle: English
Duration: 17 min
My First Funeral
Living as a lesbian in Korea is hard work. I can’t think of marriage, a happy future, or my death. So this strange woman decides to have a funeral at the age of 22! Challenge the patriarchal funeral culture of Korea for the death and funeral I want!
Director: Eun-hye Lee
Country: South Korea, 2023
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English
Duration: 37 min
