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Télétravail du sexe (Remote Sex Work) + Q&A

30 March, 2025 @ 17:15 – 19:00 CEST

Télétravail du sexe (Remote Sex Work) + Q&A with the Filmmakers

Location: Zaal | Times: 17:15-19:00 | Tickets €11,25 @ Cinetol

Carmina & Prune | France | 2024 | 73 min | French with English subs

A compelling documentary led by online sex workers, giving us an intimate peek into their daily lives and guiding us behind the scenes. It demonstrates that adult platforms are not only a workplace but also a space of creativity and self-expression, in which many individuals thrive and develop new skills. This challenges the audience’s preconceived ideas and gives them a better understanding of this industry.

With the emergence of new subscription-based adult platforms like OnlyFans or MYM, it has become easier to create and sell adult content from a simple computer or smartphone. This content can range from the most ‘soft’ erotic nude photos to the most explicit pornographic videos. “Télétravail du sexe” (“Remote Sex Work”) is a documentary that gives a voice to online sex workers by following them in their daily lives, thus showing the behind-the-scenes reality. It reveals that adult platforms can be a space for creativity and body expression, where many people thrive daily and develop new professional skills that go far beyond what the general public imagines.

Whether one has chosen this profession out of passion or convenience, sex telework, like many other solitary and independent jobs, comes with its own joys and successes, and empowerment… But also with burnout, isolation, and alienation due to the judgment of others, performance and financial pressure — which is further reinforced by the stigma and censorship experienced on the Internet.

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    Porn Shorts + Q&A

    29 March, 2025 @ 16:45 – 18:00 CET

    Porn shorts: intro by María Riot + Q&A with filmmakers

    Location: Grote Zaal | Times: 16:45-18:00 | Tickets: €11,25 @ Cinetol

    This film programme  will be introduced by María Riot: an Argentinian sex worker, sex workers’ rights activist, intimacy coordinator and artist.

    Filmmakers will be present for a Q&A following the screenings.

    A Quick Fix

    Colorblock Films, April Flores Films, Praline Studio | Germany | 2024 | 7 min | English 

    Housewife April Flores’ washing machine breaks down. When dykey plumber Manon Praline arrives, April turns on her bimbo charm, and reveals her real intentions. Soon Manon is sliding into April’s velvet robe, and she wants that wrench where?! 

    Cane

    Bendix Mignon | Germany | 2024 | 5 min

    A short queer porn film which celebrates crip sex. It is part of an ongoing (and very practical) research into crip porn, into what it means to fuck with disability and normalcy. It queers the actor and finds agency in our aids. Who assists whom, who grants access? “cane” is an intimate red-hot crip-sexy hip-grinding rhythmic conversation of a person and their cane.

    Bang Click Bang

    Hardwerk | Germany | 2021 | 17 min | English

    Inspired by the sexploitation films of Russ Meyers and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up (1966), HardWerk’s latest gang bang is a slow burning subversion of cinematic tropes that finds the carnal in the camp and the sumptuous in the sleaze. For her first ever gang bang and first facial on film, lead performer Maria Riot and the filmmakers reimagined the figure of the bossy (and generally male) photographer with a much-needed shift on the gender axis, allowing Maria to take the lead in quite literally staging her own fantasy. Here, the line between object, subject and artist can become blurred; men in all their exaggerated machismo can become eager playthings, and the directive cannot go unheeded: look at me.

    No Man Like Me

    Jaq Quicksilver | USA | 2023 | 4 min | English

    “So you’re bicurious…. Big deal. Get online, you can be sucking dick or getting fucked within an hour – if that’s what you really want to do. It’s one of the easiest things on earth to do. …But instead you’re here with me. Let’s explore why that is.

    Reclamation

    Oran Julius | USA | 2022 | 6 min | English

    Three friends gather on the solstice to practice a healing ritual involving messaging, fists, and hot wax. Who says wax play can’t be therapeutic? Reclamation is all about leaning into kink as healing, self care, and community love. Three friends gather on the solstice to practice a healing ritual designed to help them embrace and celebrate their bodies. Together they pamper each other before forming a bond with a very special seal. In Reclamation we celebrate Black bodies, Brown bodies, fat bodies, disabled bodies, hypermobile bodies, chronically ill bodies, and trans bodies. 

    Vice Versa 

    Julian Curico | France/Germany | 2022 | 20 min 

    Dancing towards his prey, Jamal is ready for his long awaited opening…

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    Double Feature + Q&A

    29 March, 2025 @ 14:45 – 16:15 CET

    Double Feature: Longue Vie Aux Putes & Four Seasons Brothel + Q&A

    Location: Grote Zaal | Times: 14:45-16:15 | Tickets: €11,25 @ Cinetol

    Longue Vie Aux Putes (Hurrah the Whores!)

    Alya Kara | France | 2023 | 45 min | French with English subs

    A closed encounter with a stigmatised community, constantly pushed to the margins: independent sex workers. 

    This invisibilised community, forced to live hidden because they are not wanted in this society. For them, getting together is more than necessary, it is a matter of survival.

    This film has mention of sexual violence and suicide.

    4 SEASONS BROTHEL 

    Kiddo Leone | Belgium | 2024 | 30 min | French with English subs

    As a sex worker, fighting against invisibility is a daily struggle. A longing for witness has impulsed this movie to turn into a kaleidoscopic documentary-vlog. Here’s four sex workers journey from their prep rituals to their after work rituals, passing through their way to work and a work session. 

    They testify about their different experiences of coming in, coming out, outing and professional retraining as sex workers. Their multiple experiences are also intertwined with queer and so called non-conform identity. Made with beloved colleagues and a client, four seasons Vivaldi music, to weave a micro archive and constellation of our bright existences. 

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    Shorts + intro by SNAP! + Q&A

    28 March, 2025 @ 20:00 – 21:30 CET

    Short film programme: Intro by SNAP! Festival + Q&A with filmmakers

    Location: Zaal | Times 20:00-21:30 | Tickets €11,25 @ Cinetol

    Many of the films in this shorts programme have screened before at SNAP! Festival, who will be present to introduce the screening.

    More about presenter Marianne Chargois & SNAP!

    This Brussels-based Sex workers Narratives Arts & Politics festival is SW-led and entirely dedicated to the discourses, representations and issues related to sex work. SNAP! has been a huge inspiration to us over the years- visiting their gorgeous festival truly helped envision Whorehouse Cinema and look for sw- created art! We opened their festival last year and now it’s our turn to welcome them in return. And we can continue snapping our fingers throughout the festival, as the SNAP! creator Marianne Chargois will also perform during the ‘Whorehouse Cabaret’ performance night on Saturday!

    42 Days

    Nat Portnoy | The Netherlands | 2020 | 11 min | Polish with English subs

    42 Days focuses on the moment of confrontation with a terminal disease and an attempt to process a personal tragedy. 

    The film, in a form of visual diary, takes the viewers onto a journey of realisations regarding the author’s difficult family relations, gender and sexual identity and the lack of control. It reflects on shame, guilt and the experience of queerness in a conservative, Catholic setting as well as on the concepts of migration and re-rooting. The author speculates whether it’s possible to fully accept one’s fate.

    This film deals with topics like terminal disease, disability and suicide.

    Not in Love (Pas Amoureux) 

    Eugénie Bouquet | Switzerland | 2022 | 4 min | French with English subs

    Two people are sitting on a bench in the Parc des Bastions in Geneva. One, Judith, is a sex worker who talks about her experience with disabled clients. The other one, me, is interviewing and recording her. An animated documentary about sex between people who are not in love.

    This film engages with themes of illness and death.

    Prima Vista

    Squareheart & Cornpop Bright | Greece | 2024 | 3 min | No spoken  language

    Every gaze carries within it the potential for profound understanding. Through the lens of a woman’s eyes, we watch a private performance where sight transcends mere observation, becoming a vessel for connection and empathy.

    READY

    Vincent Weschelberger | Germany | 2024 | 10 min | English 

    READY is an honest portrait of contemporary queer sex work emerging out of [the director’s] own relationship to it. This series offers a window into our reality – the elation and self-actualization, as well as the struggles and stigma we experience.

    Reisende 

    Cosmopolitrans, ESWA, BV Trans | Germany | 2023 | 14 min | Spanish with English subs

    This short documentary addresses in a sensitive and detailed way the lives of migrant trans women working in the sex sector in Germany. 

    Through personal testimonies and intimate narratives, the multiple difficulties that these women face are exposed, such as discrimination, economic precariousness, and legal and social obstacles. However, the documentary also highlights their achievements and the resilience they demonstrate in facing these challenges. It shows how they find support in supportive communities and support networks, and how they fight for their rights and dignity in an often hostile environment.

    Sugar
    Alyssa Brayboy | USA | 2023 | 6 min | English 

    We follow Banner on his search for a sex worker. He stumbles across Alora, who is usually up for anything, but she quickly learns Banner isn’t a typical client.

    Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves

    Chintis Lundgren | Estonia, Croatia, France | 2019 | 18 min | English

     

    After losing a well paid engineering job, Toomas, a young hot wolf, gets cornered into working as a gigolo to support his family. He is keeping it a secret from his pregnant wife Viivi. Viivi also has a secret: she is attending a female empowerment seminar involving male slaves. When Toomas gets a role in a sexploitation movie, it becomes harder to keep his new profession a secret.

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    Shorts 2 + Q&A

    2 April, 2023 @ 16:00 – 18:00 CEST

    Shorts 2 (film programme) + Q&A

    Location: Zaal | Times: 16:00-18:00| Tickets: €7 @ Cinetol

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    Family Matters

    Maximus Skaff | USA | 2022 | 23 min | English

    A realistic look into the lives and relationships between sex workers and their family members. The documentary profiles four families who share about the struggles that got them where they are today and the unconditional love that allowed them to heal together.

    Strip

    Kateřina Turečková | Czech Republic | 2015 | 10 min | Czech with English subtitles

    An intimate look into the relationship of two girls. One is a stripper and the other has a problem with it.

    Sexarbeit und Beziehung (Sex Work and Relationship) 

    Aaron und Pauli | Germany&Austria |2020 & 2021 | 27 min | German with English subtitles

    Us sex workers have relationships and lovers just as other human beings. But often we find ourselves in situations where we have to educate our partners or are confronted with stereotypes regarding our work. This video is contributing to the reduction of prejudices and aims to support sex workers and their loved ones in being more open about the topic. We are autonomous people who made the choice to do sex work out of our own free will. Sexwork is work! Respect!

    Oubliette

    Charly Flyte | UK | 2023 | 9 min | English

    In a glittering womb-like London dungeon, a dominatrix shares countless moments of seductive and sadistic kink with a regular client. But her head is somewhere else. As her routine repeats, session by session, she is triggered with memories and haunting flashbacks. With studded heels, whips and chains, she wonders whether her power is quite where it seems.

    Content warning: BDSM, implied themes of coercion and abusive relationships

    Every Day Burns

    Aidan Jung & Tyler Murgo | USA | 2020 | 5 min | English 

    Award winning pole dancer, Sada Velasquez, addresses the familial and social stigma she must overcome in order to pursue her passion for dance. Everyday Burns is a short documentary exploring one artist’s journey towards self expression and community empowerment. Every day Sada overcomes physical limitations, personal doubts and moral perceptions of others in order to create a safe space for folks to explore their sensual freedom.

    Indélébile/Graffiti Politique 

    Deep and Cheap Media & Equipe Ephemere | France | 2021 |  7 min | French with English subs

    Paris, 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, a social movement is raging. A feminist graffiti activist group prepares an action for the respect of whores.

    Content warning: These films contain sexual contact and strong language.

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    • Shorts 1 + Q&A

    1 April, 2023 @ 17:00 – 19:00 CEST

    Shorts 1 (film programme) + Q&A – co-hosted by Kaboom Animation Festival

    Location: Zaal | Times: 17:00-19:00| Tickets: €7 @ Cinetol

    SOLD OUT!

    Q&A with Dexter Boldewijn from Cupid into Transmutation

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    Sex(ual) Healing

    Maximus Skaff | USA | 2021 | 22 min | English

    An exploration into the healing powers of sex work from both client and sex worker perspectives. Through the first episode of this reality-focused and nuanced docuseries we will help millions of individuals better understand the complexity and diversity of sex work, recognize the harmful impact of existing laws, and change the way we talk about criminality, sex and consent. We aim to educate, raise awareness, and build an audience we can mobilize to defend the rights of sex workers across the country.

    Intimity 

    Elodie Dermange | CH | 2017 | 5 min | English

    As she is showering, dressing, putting on her make-up, a woman bares her porn-loving soul. She speaks of her fears, her complexes, and the process of accepting – even loving – herself.

    Stripped

    Jevon Boreland | Canada | 2018 | 10 min | English

    Forget everything you heard and enter the world that many know of but know very little about. STRIPPED is the personal, untold story of Phylicia Carty, also known as Mz Lady Ice, whose life took her in the direction of becoming one of the most revolutionary urban exotic dancers in the Toronto adult entertainment industry. The enticing documentary showcases the struggles and triumphs that come with being a female stripper in a contemporary world that is now gaining mainstream acceptance.

    Cupid Into Transmutation 

    Dexter Boldewijn | NL  | 2022 | 13 min | English

    The edgy and personal student film Cupid into Transmutation follows a transgender boy named Caesar living in a big city. On the run from his traumatic past, he tries to make a living as a camboy. Until he is suddenly sent into hysteria as his body starts to violently morph and transform beyond all recognition. Follow him in his search for acceptance and identity in this cruel world, focused on normality and outer beauty.

    Lizzy and Seyyah

    Kristian Petersen | Germany | 2018 | 10 min | German with English subtitles 

    Lizzy and Seyyah fuck! 

    Positions

    Justin Ducharme | Canada | 2018 | 12 min | English 

    A simple and naturalistic approach to a day in the life of a two-spirit, male sex worker as he visits his clients. Positions is an unapologetic and realist exploration of sexual desire, the quest for financial stability, and the pursuit of agency over one’s own body.

    Happy Ending 

    Ara Choi | UK | 2018 | 5 min | English with subtitles

    Happy Ending is a poetic animated documentary based on an anonymous online testimony of a Korean sex worker. She is forced to have her body used by others for their own pleasure. She suffers. However, she explores her body and desire to abolish social prejudices against sex workers.

    Content warning: These films contain sexual contact and strong language.

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    Kaboom!

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