BLACK CINEMA: „Salão de Baile // This is Ballroom“

In the organizer's words:

In Rio de Janeiro and the outlying areas, LGBTQ+ youth of color are recreating ballroom culture according to their own ideas. The documentary sheds light on the world of ballroom culture and shows how this subculture, which emerged in New York in the 1960s, became a place of self-expression, resistance and creativity. With categories such as face, runway and voguing, ballroom provides a stage for participants to impress and assert themselves through fashion, dance and personality. The film captures the energy and intensity of this world, which is both a safe space and a merciless competition. (Juru & Vitã, BR 2024 - FSK 18 - OmeU)

More information: https://www.utopiadocs.net/this-is-ballroom

Vimeo-Trailer: https://vimeo.com/908436188/247ea922de

We are showing the film in the original language in Portuguese with English subtitles.

Film series on the occasion of Black History Month 2025. For the second year in a row, the Ost-Passage Theater invites Black cultural workers to curate their own film program. Over the course of four evenings, the diversity and stories of Black film will take center stage. Together, viewers are invited to discover Black cinema or to find themselves in it.

ATTENTION: The events for Black History Month may exclude: colonial reproduction, cultural appropriation, racism, sexism, trans hostility, queer hostility or other forms of discrimination. More information on this in the awareness concept.

Price information:

4 Euro = no coal ticket 7 Euro = normal price, financing for "no coal" ticket