Women Make Waves｜XPOSED Queer Festival Berlin
Exchange Program Project
After Merle from XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin had presented a selection of queer short films at the Women Make Waves International Film Festival (WMWIFF) in Taiwan in October 2025, WMWIFF are happy to present with a queer short program "Women Make Waves Taiwan: Myriad Forms of Love and Resistance", guest-curated by Huei-Yin Chen, in Berlin this year.
Women Make Waves Taiwan: Myriad Forms of Love and Resistance
☞Military Dog (Wang Ping-Wen, 2018, Taiwan)☜
☞Looking for Jiro (TT Takemoto, 2011, USA)☜
☞What U Wanna Do (Jas Lin, 2021, USA)☜
☞Pswagi Temahahoi (Ciwas Tahos, 2024, Taiwan)☜
☞as a bird that briefly perches (Dorothy Cheung, 2025, Hong Kong/UK)☜
☞My First Funeral (LEE Eunhye, 2023, South Korea)☜
With myriad forms, from fiction, documentary, experimental, artist film to music video, made by queer artists based in East Asia or of Asian ethnicity, these shorts unfold ever-changing manifestations of “performing” and “becoming” through the presence of queer body and the creation of queer space.
If Military Dog transforms military experience into pleasures of submission, Looking for Jiro unveils the hidden dimensions of queer sexuality in history through drag king performance. The element of music further becomes 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 tackles the relationship between human and land, the former re-interprets oral folklore to address a mythical place for women and gender-diverse bodies, as the latter contemplates the idea of rooting, or the process of becoming, in diaspora experiences. Last but not least, My First Funeral stages a funeral in film which proves to be both an act of defiance and love.
For more information, please see: https://xposedfilmfestival.com/2026/short-films-women-make-waves-taiwan/
The 2025-2026 exchange between WMWIFF and XPOSED has been kindly supported by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government, and Goethe-Institut Taipei.
