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.