GRRL HAUS CINEMA: On Healing

Open Air Screening, hosted by Mobile Kino
SUNDAY, 31 August 2025 | 20:00
Beach Neukölln at Berliner Berg Brauerei
Treptower Str. 39, 12059 Berlin

A curation of 8 short films exploring the powerful process of healing after personal loss, political devastation, emotional collapse, cultural erasure, or transformation. A space for tenderness and transformation, and the quiet strength of simply continuing.
✨ ​On Healing screening has been rescheduled due to rain!✨ New date: Sunday, August 31st

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Short films by women, trans, non-binary, and genderqueer artists in experimental, DIY, and underground cinema.

Saturn Risin9 : Tiare Ribeaux, Jody Stillwater
10:16, Documentary, Experimental
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Queer performance artist and musician Saturn Risin9 returns home to the Bay Area to share their journey of perseverance centering self discovery, healing and creative expansion poetically told through dance, visual narrative, performance, and documentary.

Tiare Ribeaux is a Kānaka ‘Ōiwi filmmaker based in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Her films disrupt conventional storytelling methods by employing magical realist explorations of spirituality, labor, and the environment to critique both social and ecological imbalances. Her films use components of speculative fiction and fantasy to reimagine both our present realities and future trajectories of healing, queerness, lineage, and belonging. Ribeaux’s work traverses between the mundane and dreamworlds - creating stories around transformation and how our bodies are inextricably linked to land and water systems. She integrates immersion within community, personal/ancestral narratives, and Hawaiian cosmology into her films.

Jody Stillwater 周青海 is a writer, director and creative technologist from the San Francisco Bay Area. His film and interdisciplinary project themes are based in dream logic and tactile reality, with a modern/transforming approach to visual semiotics & archetype, grounded in Eastern rhizomatic systems and Western classical narrative. His cultural background as a Chinese/Norwegian/Cherokee-American amidst colliding waves of post-temporal diaspora and arhythmic, intertidal class structures has influenced a value of justice, representation and the ethereal, and allowed him to express these values in experimental film, immersive installation and narrative cinema.

Careful : Camille Lagaisse
13:39, Drama 
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When a secret feminist group assigns Lucie her first mission — to lure an unpunished abuser into a trap — the lines between justice, healing, and revenge begin to blur.

Camille Lagaisse is a French filmmaker. After a Master‘s degree in Modern Literature and Cinema at La Sorbonne, she started working as a director and editor mainly within the music industry. In 2020 she was selected for the writing residency Le G.R.E.C in France. CAREFUL is her first fictional film as director.

The Abyss : Virag Pazmany, C.A. Cooper
9:33, Experimental
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"The Abyss" is an experimental film that explores the boundaries between reality, the subconscious, and the surreal. Inspired by the creator's personal grief after the sudden death of her mother, the film becomes both an intimate and universal exploration of loss. The directors take bold risks, moving away from traditional narrative structures in favour of a purely visual storytelling approach. With carefully constructed imagery, evocative symbolism, and immersive sound design, "The Abyss" seeks to induce a trance-like state in viewers, reflecting the protagonist's inner experience. The film blurs the familiar and the abstract, creating a powerful, meditative journey that resonates deeply, allowing audiences to connect with the universal themes of grief and transformation.

Virag Pazmany is a London-based visual artist, designer, VFX artist and award-winning filmmaker. Her work blends technical proficiency with a unique artistic vision, pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling and design. With a background in scenography for theatre and production design for award-winning films, she is currently highly active in the fields of video art, generative art and visual effects. C. A.

Cooper C.A. Cooper is an award-winning director and producer with a passion for creating bold, innovative, visually striking and provocative cinema. From an early age, Cooper was deeply immersed in filmmaking. His background in the camera department, with training at Panavision and experience as a cinematographer, has honed his unique visual sensitivity, which is central to his storytelling. Cooper's work is characterized by its atmospheric mood and compelling imagery, seamlessly blending narrative depth with visual innovation.

Be Here Now : Lauren R Melton, Chichi Castillo
21:22, Drama, Comedy
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Celeste returns to their hometown after spending years away focusing on their up-and-coming career as a visual artist. Returning from Paris - or New York was it? - they are trying to stay low-key enough to avoid anyone from their past, but their former best friend and ride for the evening, Henri, has other plans. After Henri makes a well-meaning but not-so-wise decision to take Celeste to a party, Celeste is pushed through a long night of reconnecting with familiar faces including their former bandmate Jackie, ethereal party girl Pony and their ex-lover Louise. Stuck moving through the physical places and emotional states of their past, Celeste privately navigates a series of voicemails left by their mother, Edie, and tries to detangle the web of their experiences. Taking cues from irreverent queer 1990s and early 2000s aesthetics and teen comedy-dramas, Be Here Now meditates on loss, connection, and friendship through a DIY punk & femme lens.

Chichi Castillo (they/she) is an independent filmmaker and musician based in the San Francisco Bay Area. They weave through documentary, narrative, and experimental filmmaking as they explore themes of self-determination, belonging, friendship, and place through a queer femme lens. Chichi is a current resident at SFFILM’s FilmHouse Residency.

Lauren R Melton (she/her) is an independent filmmaker, music video director and editor inspired by the irreverent and emotional messiness found in the places where music and film meet. She uses her DIY ethos and tendency toward analogue to bring textured and visceral visions to life in her surreal short films and music videos. She lives in Oakland, CA and plays in bands.

Field of Fog : Giulia Palombino
3:00, Animation, Experimental
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In an anonymous place of retreat, a journey unfolds, punctuated by hallucinations and moments of awkwardness. One by one, figures emerge from their beds, stepping into a shared experience. Their relationships—strangers, acquaintances, friends, family—remain uncertain. Together they drift through a setting that could be a hotel, a corporate retreat, or a therapeutic reenactment. The sequences of their simple movements give rhythm to a nonlinear story that unfolds like a seamless loop.

Oríkì Oshun : Elena Herminia Guzman
14:55, Experimental
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An orikì is a praise to one's head, destiny, and higher self. During an oríki, a performer will describe the attributes, praises, and hopes of a particular Orisha, person, place, or object, and in doing so utter sacred possibilities into the world.
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Oríki Oshun is an experimental short film that honors the Orisha Oshun, a central figure in Yoruba cosmology and spirituality. Through a series of interconnected vignettes, Oriki Oshun weaves together sacred stories (pataki) that reveal the multidimensionality of Oshun. While often celebrated as the Orisha of beauty, love, and wealth, this film ventures beyond these familiar portrayals, offering a deeper and more complex vision of Oshun's identity. It explores her sacrifices, struggles, resilience, and transformation into a fierce warrior. By blending traditional Yoruba performance aesthetics with experimental film techniques, Oriki Oshun creates a polyrhythmic and immersive space where sound, image, and movement converge to honor the sacred. This project is not just a celebration of Oshun but a meditation on the power of storytelling to expand our understanding of divine multiplicity, human imperfection, and sacred possibility.

Elena Herminia Guzman is an Afro-Boricua filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist whose work moves at the intersection of spirituality, memory, and ritual in the African diaspora. Raised in the Bronx with roots in the Lower East Side, Elena tells stories that blend the speculative and the ancestral, often weaving personal narrative with experimental form. Her filmmaking spans documentary, animation, and hybrid genres, always with a focus on the emotional and metaphysical landscapes of Black and Afro-Caribbean life. Her films include, Smile4Kime (2023), an experimental documentary that traces a friendship marked by joy, grief, and Afro-Puerto Rican spiritual practices, and Oríkì Oshun (2025), an experimental film shot on Super 8 that is a visual praise poem to the orisha of the sweet waters, Oshun. Her work has screened at Blackstar Film Festival, Indie Memphis, BronzeLens, and the International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival amongst others.

Ani & Sumin : Nima Aida Sene 
21:00, Experimental

A feminine love story, of uncovering and purging the mundane -
stepping into a divine spiritual higher self where we witness
Ani meeting Sumin for the first time in a very long time.

Nima Aida Sene is a trans-disciplinary award winning artist trained in dance theatre (Berlin, Germany) and contemporary performance practice (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow). From 2016 to 2019, Sene was funded by the National Theatre of Scotland to work in several projects and also to receive further training as an actor, director and producer. In their arts practice they work with film as moving image immersed in live theater performance. Sene's work is rooted in the exploration and expression of a queer Black-African-European diasporic experience.
Exploring belonging, alienation and humour. Sene's artistic practice is interested in joy (Black joy), mental health, spirituality and dark matter.  Since 2021 Sene resides mainly in their hometown Berlin living close to their siblings, where they are part of the A Song For You (Berlin) music collective and working freelance within the performing arts.     

But what a Moment : Johanna Falke
​9:50, Animation, Experimental

In a dystopian city, where mindless corporate security guards patrol the streets, a person is given the quest to start the cosmic reboot. She has to travel through the city, it's undergrounds and through dimensions to reconnect with "The Heart". But there is danger around every corner.

Johanna Falke born 15.01.1999 finished her Diploma in fine arts at the HBK in Braunschweig in 2025 under Natalie Czech in the class of new media and poetics. Currently she lives and works in Berlin, while her debut Film "But what a Moment" makes it's way through the queer and experimental film festival scene all across Germany.