Carnival as protest, rap as survival, vision as flight – the films in this program explore the double meaning of “service”: submission to state and military structures and self-expression that resonates in queer culture. Service appears as discipline inscribed on bodies, yet to serve is also to resist: a choreography of power and vulnerability, where duty and desire collide, while presence, style and performance turn into forms of defiance and survival. (Boris Hadžija, Matti Ullrich)
In a remote barracks, young recruits start basic training in the German Armed Forces. An 18-year-old bound to 17 years of service faces discipline, pressure and doubt. As he witnesses failures and a roommate under strain, the supposed order around him proves far less uniform than expected.
… >>>Within the revelry of Rio’s Carnival, Ilma writes to her son. How does she sense his presence in the crowd? Suspended in time, the celebration becomes a space of memory and political resistance.
… >>>Memphis, Tennessee. Rapper La Chat (Chastity Daniels) takes us through different narratives, her own, to guide us in this city filled with ghosts and dreams.
… >>>The hawk boy believes his eyes hold the power of enlightenment. As a bird of prey, he flies over burning lands seeking carrion. Too close to the fire, he wonders if he is blind or dreaming, vanishing in smoke, a vision of violence from Mexico’s drug trade.
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