Curatorial Statement
by Dalila Muñoz

Germany’s capital, Berlin, is often portrayed as an open, queer-friendly, migrant city, “Ort der Erinnerungen” (a place of memories). Walking through it means encountering the marks of its colonial past, stumbling upon Stolpersteine ​​(stumbling stones), and approaching the vestiges of what was once used as a dividing wall. But what other images of Berlin and tensions within the culture of memory are revealed to us in our migrant or post-migrant journeys?

This curatorial project proposes listening to, seeing, and understanding Berlin from the perspective of filmmakers who film it as a territory traversed by expectations, desires, and imaginaries that confront grief and resistance. Rather than representing Berlin as a static image, the city appears as a space of friction: refuge and border, freedom and censorship, integration and exclusion. Berlin emerges as a field of symbolic dispute where our interaction with and within the city not only transforms its landscape but also influences narratives to rework the past, challenge certain imaginaries about Germany, and construct possibilities for envisioning the future.