Film: FOLX²

About the Movie

With a video journey through the city’s squares, FOLX² sets out on a quest to seek out queer traces in Mannheim – searching for connections between past and present stories, and for things that seem mundane and are often easy to overlook. Voices from the queer community today set their sights on a possible future. What happens when love doesn’t fit in the script? What if our hearts need more space, more people, more possibilities to love? No happy end made to order, but stories that are allowed to breathe? With their 4th project, PANDORA is calling for more acceptance of and solidarity with queer life in the city of Mannheim: for us, with us and after us. 

Followed by a discussion. / In cooperation with Monnem Pride.

Credits

From / with: those who identify themselves as a part of queer life in Mannheim 
Director, choreography, camera & editing: Vivian Schöchlin
Text, dramaturgy, sound & editing: Luan Álvarez
Costume: Isabell Wibbeke

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSp3PM06jA   

Thanks to all of the locations and everyone involved who made it possible to film there:  Q6/Q7 Mannheim, Selman Döner Mannheim, Queeres Zentrum Mannheim, Café Klatsch Mannheim, Nachtschwärmer Boutique Mannheim, Cool Pool Mannheim, Frauenbuchladen Xanthippe Mannheim, Theaterhaus G7 Mannheim and EinTanzHaus Mannheim.

The film premier was in December of 2025. (earlier screenings: Queeres Zentrum Mannheim, zeitraumexit Mannheim & Community Art Center Mannheim)

Supported by the Culture Department of the City of Mannheim and the LaFT (Regional Association of Independent Dance and Theater Professionals Baden-Württemberg).  

_{Photo © Vivian Schöchlin}