Screening in collaboration with Leipzig Art Residency (LIA), Cinema Con Nhà Nghèo (Cinema of the Peasants), A Sông and Nổ Cái Bùm Festival. More information here. The conversation will be about Quế’s film Healthy Water with Diseases and topics such as war trauma, colonial indochinese era, and landscapes.

This film program accompanies the exhibition Young Birds from Strange Mountains currently at Schwules Museum in Berlin. The title is borrowed from a poem by the Vietnamese gay-closeted poet Ngô Xuân Diệu (1916-1985), who was a correspondent member at Akademie der Künste in the GDR. The project features young queer arts from Southeast Asia and its diaspora with focus on community archives, spirituality/shamanism, pre-colonial knowledge, and activist movements. This program aims to spark discussion and reclaim knowledge that is often censored and erased by both nationalist and colonial politics.