Forbidden Love — Open-air Chinese Film Nights, Final Edition June 6 & 7, 2025

Dear Visitors, Dear Friends,

The Feuerle Collection is pleased to present the third and final edition of Open-air Chinese Film Nights, curated by Désiré Feuerle and Wai Kung, in collaboration with CiLENS e.V., and with the generous support of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

Since 2022, Open-air Chinese Film Nights has unfolded as a three-year curatorial journey exploring love and embodiment across contemporary Sinophone cinema. Rooted in the multi-sensorial, interdisciplinary program of The Feuerle Collection, the series invited audiences to engage cinema not only as a visual medium, but as a total aesthetic experience — accompanied by conceptual tea pairings and the sensual breeze of a summer night.

This final edition, titled Forbidden Love, explores desire, identity, and social boundaries through cinema and embodied experience — where moving images, bodies, and rituals converge.

Each evening offers a carefully composed arc: a live performance opens the night, followed by curated films and conceptual tea, and finally a shared celebration through sound, taste, and dance.

Please find the full program here below:

FRIDAY, 6 JUNE, 2025

20:00 – 20:30
Performance: Whispers of Water and Spring
Berlin-based composer and Erhu player Temple Rat (梅郁鑫) presents a meditative live set composed of Erhu, modular synths, and field recordings. Drawing on Taoist philosophy and Tang poetry, the performance unfolds as an ambient ritual — tracing the cyclical movement of water, memory, and time.

Fusing traditional Chinese instruments with contemporary sonic languages, Temple Rat creates immersive soundscapes that dissolve boundaries between past and present, ritual and rave. Her performances have been featured at Berghain, Art Biesenthal, and Boiler Room Shanghai.

22:00–00:00
Screenings with tea pairing

Sewing Love
2023 | XU Yuan | Japan | 8 min 33 sec | Animation without dialogue
A silent animated short on emotional transience, decay, and desire. Love is both an interruption and an evaporation, a stitch and a scar.

Feature Film from the CiLENS Archive
To be announced soon…

Tea Pairing: Mariages
Mariages is a concept-driven tea pairing created by Lin Wang in response to the emotional tone of the films shown each evening. Each blend offers an ephemeral reflection — a sensory dialogue that deepens the audience’s cinematic immersion.

Lin Wang is a Chinese tea practitioner who transforms spaces through the art of tea. She hosts tea ceremonies, creates immersive experiences for cultural events and global brands, collaborating with artists across disciplines. In her practice, tea becomes a living medium where aesthetics, connection and tranquility harmonize.

00:00–06:00
Late Night Party
Presented in association with Jiā La, Berlin’s Asian diasporic collective, the late night celebration invites audiences into a sensual, liberating sonic landscape in The Feuerle Collection Chain room.

Line-up:

– Asian Dope Boys (Tianzhuo Chen)
A multidisciplinary artist disrupting the boundaries between rave, ritual, and queer transcendence.
– Courtney Bailey
Tokyo-based DJ and party organizer, founder of “NOCOMPLY,” with sets at Womb, Fuji Rock Festival, and across Europe.
– itiswhatitis (Kloxii B2B Bianyachichi)
Emerging DJ duo and co-founders of the AN(8)X collective, blurring lines between club culture and sonic art.

SATURDAY, 7 JUNE, 2025

20:00–20:30
Performance: Crimson Fulu
Calligraphy artist and performer Jiannyuh Wang collaborates with multidisciplinary artist Susana Chanorro in a live ritual that reimagines Taoist fu talismans as queer-feminist invocation.

Through ink, movement, and the exposed body, the performance transforms the space into a site of inscription and resistance — where gesture becomes language, and the act of writing becomes a sensual call for liberation.

22:00–00:00
Screenings with tea pairing

Super Taboo
2017 | Su Hui-Yu | Taiwan | 18 min | OV with English subs
A two-channel adaptation of a banned erotic novella. Actor Chin Shih-Chieh guides viewers into the hidden zones of fantasy and censorship.

Lan Yu
2001 | Stanley Kwan | Hong Kong | 1 h 26 min | OV (Mandarin) with English subs
A landmark in queer Chinese cinema. A fleeting yet profound love between a businessman and a student, tested by denial and social expectation.

Tea Pairing: Mariages
Mariages is a concept-driven tea pairing created by Lin Wang in response to the emotional tone of the films shown each evening. Each blend offers an ephemeral reflection — a sensory dialogue that deepens the audience’s cinematic immersion.

Let’s celebrate together this moment of closing and transition. From 2026 onward, the series will evolve into Open-air Asian Film Nights, broadening its focus to explore a wider regional and cultural horizon.

Tickets are now available.

Capacity is limited per evening — we warmly encourage you to secure your place early and join us under the summer sky for this final edition.

We look forward to welcoming you.

With our best wishes,
The Feuerle Collection

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♦ The films are suitable only for persons aged 18 years and over.
We won’t grant admittance to persons under the age of 18.

Forbidden Love — Open-air Chinese Film Nights, Final Edition

June 6/7, 2025
Single daily ticket: 15,- EUR (tea experience included)
Doors open 9:45 pm, screening begins at 10:00 pm
Location: Roof-garden of The Feuerle Collection
Hallesches Ufer 70, 10963 Berlin

For more information, please contact us at info@thefeuerlecollection.org.