Forum Catalogue 2025

After struggling to “straighten out” their queer heir, a family pursues a dramatic masquerade that pushes the boundaries of care, identity, and cross-generational understanding.

"Amasonic" is an XR experience where the user can experience different (non)human perspectives on the Amazon River gathered by local communities and scientists, while exploring the installation, users compose a sonification, translating their interaction and co-existence with the river echoing the multitude of life connected to the Amazon River.

An immersive new media installation and ABC of global protest, "Anatomy of Revolution" explores the language, imagery, and spirit of uprisings through archival media, poetic narrative, and collective resistance.

Architecture as Invention offers an intimate glimpse into the visionary mind of architect Daniel Libeskind, inviting the viewers into the sacred space of invention, where creativity meets the essence of being human.

In the fading of an ancient pagan ritual, a mother’s vow to resurrect her dead son becomes an eternal elegy, where love transcends death yet remains forever wounded by grief.

Join Paul, a Filipino nurse in Berlin, on his Grindr hookup with a former soldier. Move through a fragmented apartment and listen as their encounter unfolds into a familiar story of trauma and reckoning, revealing the hidden scars left by wars both ongoing and never-ending.

The unlikely friendship between a boy and an insect reveals the transformative power of nature.

My father, a secret ANC soldier, fled Apartheid to East Germany, where love defied race. Decades after his death, I uncover his story—and a hidden history of resistance.

Venezuela, Maracaibo. In a broken health system where life hangs by a thread, Carolina rises as a maternity warrior. Drawing strength from a violent past, she relentlessly preserves the vital cord between pregnant women and their babies.

"Cripping Up" is an interactive VR experience where audience members embody Meg, a wheelchair user, confronting everyday ableist barriers she faces during a simple journey.