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Porn Shorts + Q&A

March 29 @ 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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Four Chambers Special

March 29 @ 15:30 – 16:15 CET

Four Chambers Special: Various films by Vex Ashley

Location: Etage | Times: 15:30-16:15 | Tickets: €11,25 @ Cinetol

Four Chambers is a name that keeps popping up at every SW and porn festival we visit. So we looked into who is behind this project and it turned out to be the very talented porn performer, director and filmmaker Vex Ashley. With a art school and photography background, as well as digital sex work online, Four Chambers became a project, an idea and an ongoing collaboration with the intention to explore the aesthetic and conceptual potential of pornography as a creative medium for ideas. We handpicked several of their works as examples of some exquisite DIY works with high-end aesthetic production value from a community perspective.

Two of Swords | UK | 2022 | 13 min 

An ancient symbol of the divine masculine, the sword = cock symbolism isn’t exactly subtle here. Recreated with some of my favourite sexually charged tarot imagery from the suit of swords under glowing neon red light. An occult homoerotic Bacchanalia ritual or a sweaty 3am club fuck.

Archetype | UK |  2019 | 13 min

Porn aesthetics and archetypes are fascinating, sex on film has always been innovative, at the forefront of pushing technology and creativity. Being pushed to the margins means you’re forced to make new rules and create your own visions, processes and traditions. Porn world developed its own visual language, signs and semiotics.

This is the first in a new series we’re hoping to continue exploring where we look at traditional Porn stereotypes, archetypes, aesthetics and cliches and how we can explore, subvert or expand them. Exploring some classic archetypes – play fighting, wrestling, leather bars, vests, sweat and skin we were lucky enough to be able to license the perfect brooding Berlin goth gay club soundtrack from Boy Harsher and we were good to go.

A Cyborg Manifesto | UK | 2020 | 5 min

Originally commissioned by The Museum of Sex for the CAM LIFE exhibition, ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ is a visual essay and a personal exploration of a life spent online.

We broadcast our image in cells and pixels across continents, viewed by lenses, pushed through codecs and compression algorithms, adapting new ways to circumvent the physical. Thousands of people every day fuck and fuck themselves broadcast live via webcam. I spent 4 years from 2012-2016 live online, executing a carefully choreographed performance of authenticity – shapeshifting, adapting, morphing. My sex and self monetised for consumption, working for tips. Records of this will outlive me, videos of cam shows ripped, recorded and uploaded on illegal sites, digital time capsules or ticking time bombs. 

Proximity IV | UK | 2015 | 11 min

The Proximity series was really where the project started. It aims to replicate the intensity of a sexual connection by bringing the camera in.

Highlight the intricacies and minutia of sex, things often lost in sex on screen. The closeness of the camera allows for greater focus on breath, sweat, touches that might otherwise be lost. It replicates the experience of a partner. Body parts merge and skin blends. It becomes less about clarity and more about atmosphere and experience. 

about the filmmaker

Vex Ashley is a porn performer, director and filmmaker. After rejecting being demoted to “muse” spending 3 years at art school and getting naked online as a cam girl, Vex started making work as Four Chambers to expand the idea of what sex on film could say, do and be. Vex performs in, directs, edits and produces the Four Chambers project in collaboration with a partner and the performers. She speaks, writes and spends a lot of time online talking about making porn creatively and independently, sex as performance, authenticity, art and pornography, technology and sex, camming, censorship and the music of Joanna Newsom. 

Vex is self taught in film making with an emphasis on collaborative DIY practices; Four Chambers now exists alongside a new wave of creators making contemporary pornographic work from a new perspective. The project remains deliberately ambiguous, rejecting labels for both their films and performers, existing in-between genres of both art and pornography and dismissing the need for a definition of either. Exploring themes of technology, symbolism, mythology and alchemy and their intrinsic intersection with sex and part of the growing decentralisation from traditional adult industry business, Four Chambers is independent, DIY, conceptual, pornography cinema.

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Shorts + intro by SNAP! + Q&A

March 28 @ 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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opening night!

March 28 @ 18:00 – 19:30 CET

Opening Remarks + Short Film + Shibari Performance

Location: Zaal | Times: 18:00-19:30 | Tickets €11,25 @ Cinetol

Join us for this celebration of our second festival! Quirine Lengkeek will share some remarks about the status of sex workers, some of the artist that are a part of the sex worker art exhibition will talk about their work, we’ll screen a short film, and there will be a shibari performance.

Learn more about the sex worker art exhibition

Quirine Lengkeek is a queer feminist activist and chairwoman of SekswerkExpertise, a Dutch knowledge platform aiming to advance the position of sex workers, and active member of SWAD.

She’s fond of glitter, policy documents and advocating for the labour rights of sex workers, be it at the municipality, parliament, or the UN!

Thriving: A Dissociated Reverie 

Nicole Bazuin | Canada | 2023 | 10 min | English

A surrealist exploration of dissociative identity disorder (DID) based on the lived experience of a Black, nonbinary, disabled artist and former sex worker.

More about the film & director

Thriving: A Dissociated Reverie is a surrealist exploration of dissociative identity disorder (DID) based on the lived experience of Black, non-binary, disabled emerging multidisciplinary performance artist and former sex worker Kitoko Mai. Grappling with their DID diagnosis while attempting to survive capitalism, we meet a range of “alters” (alternate personalities) representing the various emotional states of Mai, the “system host.” Featuring a tour-de-force performance by Mai, Thriving is directed by Nicole Bazuin (Modern Whore, SXSW 2020), and co-written/co-produced by Mai and Bazuin, alongside sex worker advocate and author Andrea Werhun. This visually striking film lensed by Ashley Iris Gill is complete with lush animations by Society of Illustrators triple-gold-medallist Dylan Glynn. Thriving was created with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council.

Nicole Bazuin (director) is a Toronto film director and interdisciplinary artist. In collaboration with writer and former escort Andrea Werhun, Nicole co-created and photographed the acclaimed book Modern Whore: A Memoir (Strange Light, Penguin Random House Canada). Nicole directed an award-winning short film adaptation of the book, titled Modern Whore (Official Selection, SXSW 2020). She created and directed the comedy art show This Art Works! (CBC), and the climate change documentary series Climate Talks With Kids (Bell TV). Nicole’s media artworks have been exhibited by the Art Gallery of Ontario, and commissioned by festivals such as Nuit Blanche and Luminato.

A new R’hope (shibari/kinbaku performance)

by Cyanhur and Messy Anni  (France | 2024 | 30-35 min)

When everything has turned to chaos, resistance is whispering in the night, a rope lies on the ground, silent witness of a fractured world. In the middle of the rubble, two beings find each other and unite again. Together, they choose to share a moment of affection, to suspend time and defy the surrounding chaos. Let yourself be carried away by this suspended moment, where hope seems possible again.

This show contains bondage and BDSM scenes, as well as siren audios.

More about the performers

Cyanhur @cyanhur (they/them) is an artist and SW passionate about shibari. For them ropes go far beyond a simple practice: they weave physical and emotional connections, nourishing a unique artistic universe. By merging their love of ropes with creativity, they explore and share this art through photos and videos.

Messy Anni @messy_anni (she/her) is a shibari switch and occasional SW. She started shibari in Greece and has practiced this art with different partners in various countries since then. She enjoys how ropes can facilitate communication and trust building between people, as well as the power exchange it creates. She sees ropes as a tool that can be used for different purposes and intentions.

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a queered gaze: trans sex worker porn

10 May, 2024 @ 23:00

TranScreen has invited queer.red back to present another trans sex worker porn shorts programme as a part of their TranScreen Rewind, along with some of their best films from the last 10 years.

queer.red’s selection is HOT! Join us to queer your gaze and enjoy trans pleasure.

Tickets €8.50 (€0 with Cineville) via Kriterion

What happens when a queer sex worker collective is invited to curate a collection of porn shorts created by trans and non-binary sex workers? We invite you to come explore your ideas about porn, the sex work industry and body norms. A q&a will follow after the screening with some of the filmmakers from the NL-produced films. These were part of the Down & Dirty DIY workshop that was held with a group of Dutch-based sex workers who came together over a month-long workshop to produce queer porn. Their works premiered during a sold-out screening at the Porn Film Festival Amsterdam last February. This whore-y fantasy was dreamed up by queer sex workers Mercy and Vivi and was sponsored by queer.red; a Dutch-based group of (former) sex workers, feminists, queer and trans people who organise events on the topic of sex work with the aim to destigmatise sex work through more nuanced and diverse representations. 

Total Duration: 72 mins

Babygurl’s Big Birthday Bang (Mahx Capacity, 2022, USA, 13’, English)

Manon Praline is turning 40 and for her birthday, her sweet and sadistic Leather Family planned a very special celebration. Seven eager tops await their precious babygurl–eager to devour her like cake with their hands, mouths, tools, and toys. Manon thanks her family profusely as they each take their turn wishing her a very happy birthday.

Switch for Daddy (Mahx Capacity, 2023, USA, 17’, English)

Leather Daddy Mahx Capacity puts Bishop Black through their paces

Leather lovers Bishop and Mahx are ravenous for each other in this electric Berlin rendezvous. A steamy makeout ends with Bishop’s legs up in the air, and Mahx can’t help but feast on this gorgeous slut. Bishop slides down on Mahx’s strap, riding their daddy before dutifully returning the favor. Taking turns sucking, licking, riding, and cumming all over each other, Mahx and Bishop make switching absolutely indulgent.

Transit (Jiz Lee & Vanniall, 2023, USA, 5’, English)

Hotel guests discover a room for two.

Mistress, I’m Hungry (Mercy St. James, NL, 2024, 9’, English)

Discover queer, sex worker joy through the senses sight, sound and, most importantly, taste. This short will leave you in knots, dripping, and hungry for more as one lucky whore not only gets served a face-full of a feast from their mistress, but an extra-sweet and surprise second round.

Shoes Your Weapon (Vivi Stone, NL, 2024, 9’, English)

Three sex workers are seeking pleasers that can meet their high standards…and the Van der Soles, a family of secret foot fetishists in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, have been sewing the weapons of resistance into the soles of window workers’ shoes for centuries. But will the worker’s favourite heels pass the durability test? Shoes your weapon, and find out!

Elemental (Jude and Sensual Nova, NL, 2024, 11’, English)

A kinky journey through the four elements, earth, water, metal, and fire, Elemental is an aesthetic experiment in what happens when the flesh meets each. But don’t be fooled as if it were just for looks: prepare your body to feel the whip of tree branches, the rush of wetness, the cool of metal in sensitive places, and drip of hot wax across your skin. Even from the theater seat, Elemental turns porn into an elaborate sensation play!

Fuck you, Pay Me! (Mercy St. James, NL, 8’, English)

Two Amsterdam window workers are rudely interrupted by the ugliest sight imaginable, The Mayor’s Erotic Prison: a building where the evil city government wants to lock away sex workers for good! Luckily their domme friend knows the perfect solution: just sit on it! Fuck You, Pay Me! is the ultimate form of the body(and butts, specifically) as a powerful tool of resistance against the oppression of sex workers everywhere!

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queer.red presents! Down & Dirty DIY Screening: Queer Sex Worker Porn

10 February, 2024 @ 20:00 – 22:00 CET

queer.red presents! Down & Dirty DIY Screening: Queer Sex Worker Porn

€6 Free with Cineville

45-60 minutes short films | English | International

Followed by 30 minutes Q&A & 10-15 minutes Performance

(Total duration: 1h 45m) Tickets here

Raunchy. Hot. Political. DIY.

What happens when sex workers from across the NL and the sex industry come together over a month-long workshop to produce queer porn? 

The Down & Dirty DIY Porn Workshop was a whore-y fantasy brought to life, sparked by this very question. Dreamed up by queer sex workers Mercy and Vivi—with their respective years-long experience in the sex industry—and in collaboration with queer.red, Down & Dirty DIY invited aspiring, current, and former sex workers in Amsterdam & the NL into a month-long, peer-to-peer, porn skill share. As a skill share, we wanted to engage the different knowledges of whores from across the industry, bridge gaps in the sex worker community, all while making our own queer fantasies realized in porn—while using DIY and accessible methods. 

And who better than other queer sex workers to conjure up hot, panty-dripping, and queer-as-fuck scenes together? These series shorts will be a break from your average porn. So buckle up, loves, you‘re in for a ride. The screening will preview all the films made in the workshop,  include performances, and a Q&A with workshop facilitators & participants. 

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queer.red presents! Rainbows & Red Umbrella’s: queer sex worker shorts

25 July, 2023 @ 19:30 – 21:30 CEST

queer.red is proud to join forces with Queer Amsterdam to kick off the first week of Queer & Pride 2023. From July 22nd until July 28th, the city will showcase queer- and transness in all its shapes and sizes, in all its colors and shades of diversity. As red is the top color of the rainbow, we will sprinkle the film programme during this week with some stories from sex workers’ perspectives, adding some often underrepresented flavours of queerness. 

Tuesday 25 July 19:30-21:30 | Total runtime: 70 minutes

Tickets: Regular price €11,50 / Cineville €0

1. Happy Birthday, Marsha!

Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel | USA | 2017 | 14 min | English

Happy Birthday, Marsha! commemorates Black trans activist and performer Marsha “Pay it No Mind” Johnson and her role in instigating the 1969 anti-policing riots at the Stonewall Inn, a watershed event for the gay liberation movement. The film interweaves imagined scenes with found archival footage to counter the endemic erasure of trans women of color from narratives of political resistance. 

Starring Independent Spirit Award winner Mya Taylor (Tangerine) as Johnson with cinematography by Sundance winner Arthur Jafa and an original score by Geo Wyeth. 

2. Positions

Justin Ducharme | Canada | 2018 | 12 min | English with English Subtitles 

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.

3. 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.

4. Suspendue

Toni, difused by Deep&Cheap média | France | 2023 | 22 min | French with English subtitles

On November 14 2021 in the suburbs of Paris, a mixed team of sex workers and allies meet for the making and the shooting of a graffiti in rappel. This film deals with the pain of living with the stigma of whore and tells how powerful action, an entourage of colleagues and allies can help in a whorephobic world.

5. Cum as you are

Hanna Schaich & Lo-Fi Cherry| Germany | 2022 | 12 min | English

What if the anger of all fighters, who live in existing and past patriarchal structures, who had

to endure them, who suffered from them or have come to death by them, what if that anger

became an overwhelming, transforming energy turning us into freed, unadjusted and loud

people, ready for a positive change? Then we fight for uncompromised being. For love freed

from shame. For life as it could be. Alive orgiastically.

***This short contains nudity and sex.** 

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Porn ShorTs

19 May, 2023 @ 00:00 – 20 May, 2023 @ 01:15 CEST

Allow yourself to be surprised by this year’s collection of porn shorts, curated by us for TranScreen Film Festival (18-21 May 2023). With pleasure we will treat you to an hour of porn shorts with a focus on sex work and trans desire. Sit back, relax, and enjoy..

Tickets €8,50 or €0 with Cineville via Kriterion

+Q&A with Bear Silver (co-director of EXXXtasy)

1. Baby

2018, Germany, 8 min, Evie Snax, English with English subtitles

What does it look like to fall in love through the lens? Pull up for front row seats to a passionate and

undeniably vulnerable solo strip tease to make your heart melt. An epic portrayal of trans feminine

vibrancy and unadulterated creative expression, Baby captures a conversation between muse and

camera unlike any other. Performed by playful movement artist Manon Praline, captured by Evie

Snax, and set to an ephemeral score by Azaadi pop star Kohinoorgasm; Baby is a portrait of queer

romance, obsession, radical self acceptance, freedom, and lesbionic vanity. 

2. My Garage, My Rules 

2020, Germany, 10:44 min, Manon Praline, French with English subtitles

Another day of work at the girls’ garage.

3. Full 

2019, USA, 14 min, AORTA films, English

Shay Knox and Mahx Capacity are two of the hottest femmes we know. They nerd out about the complex joy of fat femme sex and identity over a juicy pomegranate, and then dive enthusiastically into fucking, fisting, and ferocious orgasms. These babes are eloquent, full of desire, and are generous enough to let us in on the big secret.

4. Exxxtasy 

2022, Netherlands, 9 min, Emy Fem & Bear Silver, no dialogue

Exxxtasy is an abstract composition featuring an array of bodies, sensations and possibilities, presenting a collage of 3 sexual fantasies set in an experimental dreamscape. The film playfully explores role play and BDSM, celebration and perception, often blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, tenderness and brutality, pleasure and pain. Birthday cakes really can make dreams come true.

5. Batidinha de Fruta 

2022, Brazil, 17:39 min, Production company: EdiyPorn, Director: Hiperlinque, Portuguese with English subs

Between fruit and kisses, Cyber heats up the ass of Gabs with slaps and a spanking. Sucking and with deep touches, Cyber takes their partner to ecstasy.

6. In the Dark

2018, Germany, 4:28 min, Rory Midhani, English

Beyond the glare of streetlights, neon signs and policemen, there’s another world taking shape in the shadows and the music gets louder as you approach.

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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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