When I was a child I had a thing for toilets. It didn’t matter where I was, I always liked to go to the restroom and take a close look at everything. Curiosity? Of course it is! Nowadays it is still something special for me: what do people do in a restroom? What kind of history does this place have? What kind of needs do the people have? No matter how, where and what for…

The project QUEER AND BEYOND ‒ 6 film portraits by Llaima Sanfiorenzo, Laura and Simon Paetau ‒ together with the post-migrant queer participants with Brazilian, Argentinean, Polish, Philippine, Columbian and Turkish backgrounds ‒ addresses the question if there is an interface between gender, sexual and cultural identity and who establishes it? Us? Others? With what kind of contradictions do the post-migrants have to deal through self- and ascription in terms of sexual orientation? Six documental and staged self-portraits will give unexpected answers.