Queer Exile - film screening and discussion with the director
Monday, March 2, 2026 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm CET/GMT+1JJK Hall
Queer Exile is a short film about an exiled activist who flees Egypt in the wake of the revolution and arrives in Berlin yearning for safety, reaching for breath. But before he can catch it, he’s placed in a refugee camp, steps away from far-right rallies chanting for his removal. Trapped between what he fled and where he’s landed, he must confront the cost of escape, the ache of memory, and what freedom really means.
The film screening will be followed by a conversation with the director. Madi Awadalla is a writer, historian, and transdisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance, visual storytelling, and multiple forms of writing. Grounded in counter-histories, archival intervention, and embodied research, their work engages critical debates on public health, sexuality, displacement and the afterlives of colonialism.
This event is part of Prof. Dr. Agata Lisiak's SO204 Urban Ethnography Workshop, organized in collaboration with the Civic Engagement Office and the Equal Opportunity, Participation and Nondiscrimination Office.
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