Queer Fantasies

Curated by Toby Ashraf and Sophie Holzberger 

Auf Raben zu treffen (Meeting Ravens)
Barbara Teufel, Germany 1990, 4 min. German, no subtitles, 16mm

Sexparty (Sex Party)
Angelika Levi, Federal Republic Germany 1987, 10 min, no dialogue, Super 8

Überwachungskamera (Security Camera)
Christoph Heller, Germany 2006, 1 min. no dialogue, 35mm

Slimane
Carlos Pereira, Germany 2023, 19 min. German with English subtitles

Mein ist Dein ganzes Herz (Your Heart Is All Mine)
Elke Götz, Germany 1992, 50 min. German

Followed by a talk with Barbara Teufel, Angelika Levi, Carlos Pereira, Elke Götz, and Bastian Finke

In Auf Raben zu treffen, Barbara Teufel stages a love story between Frederick the Great and Voltaire as a playful dance of the Enlightenment, while Angelika Levi's Sexparty (Sex Party) presents the sensuous fragment of a lost lesbian film. The pan of Überwachungskamera (Security Camera) in the social spot for MANEO hints at the dystopia that Carlos Pereira sketches out elegantly in a cinematic no-man's-lands in his enigmatic art film Slimane. Elke Götz's Mein ist Dein ganzes Herz (Your Heart Is All Mine) follows the fantastical life of a lesbian office worker who has to choose between a baroque role-play with her mother and her love for a female butcher.

Toby Ashraf works as a freelance curator, film critic, moderator, and is Advisor to the Selection Commmitte of the Berlinale

Sophie Holzberger is a feminist film researcher, PhD candidate at New York University and film curator. They are a founding member of the curatorial collective feminist elsewheres.

Barbara Teufel is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and lecturer. She studied film directing at the DFFB and La Fémis, Paris from 1989 to 1995. She is part of Pro Quote Regie und ProQuote Film.

Angelika Levi is an experimental filmmaker, video artist, and lecturer. She studied film directing at the DFFB 1985 to 1992. Since October 2025, she is the Artistic Director of the DFFB.

Carlos Pereira is a filmmaker and screenwriter. He has studied film directing at the DFFB since 2019. His first feature Remote Islands is in post-production, his second feature The Clouds is in development.

Elke Götz  is a filmmaker, DOP and editor. She studied film directing at the DFFB fom1986 to 1992. From 1995 to 2024 she worked as a TV news editor for Deutsche Welle.

Bastian Finke is a licensed psychologist, psychotrauma therapist, and counselor in victim assistance. In 1990, he founded MANEO—Berlin’s gay anti-violence project—which, in collaboration with the DFFB, produced several social ads against homophobia and hate-motivated violence, such as “Security Camera.”