29.05.2026

Industria Indipendente Rome

Merende

Théâtre Les Tanneurs

Slip off your shoes and give yourself over to Merende: an artistic party filled to the brim with music, dancing, manicures, tarot, political banners, and performances.

28 — 30.05.2026

MEXA São Paulo

Reality Show

theatre — premiere

Zinnema

MEXA – founded in a shelter for unhoused people in São Paulo – returns with a sharp and exuberant depiction of their struggle for housing, visibility, and recognition.

27 — 30.05.2026

Salim Djaferi Brussels

Bâtir

theatre — premiere

Théâtre National

Djaferi dissects social housing after discovering a disturbing resemblance between the banlieue where he grew up and housing estates in French Algeria.

27 — 30.05.2026

Chien‑Han Hung, Wei‑Yao Hung, Ray Tseng Taipei

Family Triangle

theatre

KVS BOX

Hung and Tseng envision having a child and ask Hung’s brother to donate sperm. An investigation into how tradition, gender expectations, and the law shape the desire to become a parent.

25 — 27.05.2026

Angélica Liddell Madrid

Seppuku. El funeral de Mishima o el placer de morir

theatre

KVS BOL

Liddell pushes theatre to its emotional extremes and offers an ode to the untameable, refusing to reduce life to dry productivity.

25 — 29.05.2026

Thanapol Virulhakul Bangkok

Comrade, Miracle, Curse

dance

La Bellone

A lightly subversive performance in which the chada, the Thai symbol of royalty and divinity, is handled with both nonchalance and care.

24 — 29.05.2026

Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou‑Rahme Palestine-New York

Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom

performance / expanded cinema — premiere

La Balsamine

Abbas and Abou-Rahme let poems and songs written by Palestinian prisoners resonate in a cinematic experience that ​​surpasses repressive structures.

24.05, 26.05, 28.05.2026

Carolina Bianchi São Paulo-Amsterdam-Brussels

The Heart of Darkness

talks

Théâtre Les Tanneurs

Bianchi presents three late-night talks – with Romeo Castellucci, Alice Diop and Edouard Louis – where conversations can unfold in the softness of a shared moment at night.

23 — 26.05.2026

Louis Vanhaverbeke Ghent

Tractor Rapsodie

performance — premiere

De Kriekelaar

Vanhaverbeke brings a raw ode to slowness, where grounding yourself is not an airy concept but a revolutionary act.

22 — 24.05.2026

Ali Cherri Beirut-Paris

Archaic Matter: Mud, Myth, and the Politics of the Elemental

Free School

L'Envers

Cherri creates a hands-on school to investigate the politics and mythology embedded in mud and clay, as carriers of memory, violence, and transformation.

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