Gabriel Galindez Cruz & Francisco MeCe: Told with the Body & Errante.

In the organizer's words:

PAN-GEA Global South-South Festival – Queer Beyond

27–30 July | Theater Ballhaus Prinzenallee, Berlin-Wedding

Free Entry!

30 July — Gabriel Galindez Cruz & Francisco MeCe

Performance | Improvisation | Film

Told with the Body

Through impulses of body awareness and movement improvisation, we explore the body's communication possibilities. An invitation to listen to each other with our eyes and soul. 

Errante.

Film, 1h 15min, Spanish with English subtitles

Direction: Francisco MeCe  / Cast: Peiman Naimi & Gabriel Galindez Cruz

Director’s statement: I had to go as far as possible from my birthplace to realize that there isn’t just one possible idea of homeland. I needed to move beyond the notion of belonging to a single country and begin to imagine myself free from a national label. Errante served as a vehicle to deepen my self-awareness and to encounter the foreigner within myself, while also recognizing others as essential parts of one’s own being.

Global South-South Festival  - Queer Beyond

Format & Flow:

Each evening features:

> Performative rituals, screenings, sound explorations

> Collective gatherings in the garden for drinks, conversation, and informal exchange



27 – 30 July / Free entry

PAN-GEA Global South-South Festival is a transdisciplinary open-air festival held over four evenings in the backyard of Theater Ballhaus Prinzenallee in Berlin-Wedding. The festival brings together audiovisual, performative, and sonic contributions by diasporic voices from the Global South, including artists, researchers, activists, and those who move across disciplines.It centers decolonial perspectives, plural cosmologies, and embodied reflections on identity, territory, and resistance.

In its 2025 edition, PAN-GEA proposes to (re)think queerness not only as an identity, but as a critical methodology a way of producing knowledge, feeling, and resistance. This proposal emerges from a concrete urgency: to create frameworks that enable and sustain modes of existence, expression, and thought that operate as dissidence practices that resist normativity through other languages such as ritual, embodiment, spirituality, and collective experience.

What ways of thinking and knowing queerness exist in the experiences of the Global South that have been ignored, or misread by colonial epistemologies?

And what kind of space must we create so that these forms are not only seen, but held, without being translated, adapted, or asked to justify themselves?

In this context, queerness is no longer reducible to an identity category or a politics of visibility; it becomes an act of epistemic disobedience that resists assimilation into the frameworks of the Global North. It emerges as a materialized memory, present in Indigenous cosmologies, spiritual traditions, everyday gestures of resistance, and lived experiences shaped by migration, racialization, structural violence, and unruly desire Here, queerness is embraced as a disruptive force, one that unsettles dominant narratives of binary gender, linear time, development, normativity, and social order.

PAN-GEA is not a space for representation or identity consolidation, but a site of resonance, co-presence, and relational listening.

not from north vision but from south self-claim

not from academical knowledge but from local experiences

not from macro solutions but micro exercises

not from ecological activism but from multicultural approaches

not from political frontiers but from personal identities

 

Most activities take place in the garden area of Theater Ballhaus Prinzenallee. lease note that the space is not barrier-free. We recognize these limitations and are committed to creating more accessible spaces in the future.