Renata Ferraz & Maria Roxo | Portugal/Brazil | 2022 | 84 min | Portuguese with English subtitles
Rua dos Anjos (Rising Sun Blues) is a film built upon the encounter and shared film creation of two women.They narrate and witness personal stories while exchanging certain techniques of their respective crafts: sex work and filmmaking. In this scenario, they simultaneously become filmmakers and characters.
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.
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.
XtraSexyReality is a choose-your-own-adventure porn experience that works with Virtual Reality headsets. Users can make choices between various sexual acts, and for some scenes select different viewing angles. XtraSexyReality challenges current VR porn by providing agency and interactivity. www.xtrasexyreality.com
Roberta Torre | Italy | 75 min | 2022 | Italian with English subtitles
It often happens that after death trans women are deprived of their identity. That’s what happened to Antonia, too. Her friends gather to invoke her, in an attempt to give Antonia her denied femininity.
In this SEX WORKER ONLY Masterclass we look at how you can use basic cinematic techniques to help you create sexy content that makes you look your best! Content creators, in the form of videos, photo sets and/ or live cam shows, are invited to take a deep dive into their own work and their ethetical interests. With easy tips and tricks on lighting, set dressing, camera technique and montage we will discuss how you can make your content more you. Participants are encouraged to bring a sample of their own work and (mainstream) examples of what inspires them.
Yvette Luhrs is a pornographer, film scholar and sex worker.
In this all-inclusive, body and sex positive workshop, we focus on unlocking Intimacy and self-discovery through erotic selfies, exploring the possibilities of smartphone cameras and accessible items in the process of creating an intimate space. Learning how to take erotic selfies can make you feel empowered, giving the sense of control over how you express your intimate desire and sexual identity, creating deeper connections with yourself and the world around you. Nat Portnoy is a multidisciplinary, queer artist, filmmaker, and writer from Poland, based in the Netherlands.
Nat Portnoy is a multidisciplinary, queer artist, filmmaker, and writer from Poland, based in the Netherlands. Her projects are based on theories of sociocultural construction, examining the cognitive processes of pleasure and its connotations with self-representation, identity, ritual, and the complexity of language used to express desire. In her artistic practice, she refers to existing ideologies and beliefs, examining them through the knowledge of a collective and personal experience.
A cross-organisational group of sex worker activists from SWAD (Sex Work Alliance Destigmatisation) joined an action group to develop a national campaign to respond to the imminent threat of a new set of regulations and legislation in the Netherlands (WRS).
During this brunch we will come together for a workshop with sex worker advocates from the Netherlands, to acquire a better understanding of the upcoming law and regulation and to develop together the campaign slogans and key messages.
queer.red presents! is proud member of SWAD (Sex Work Alliance Destigmatisation).
SWAD is an alliance of 22 organizations and initiatives working together to reduce the stigma on sex work. A cross-organisational group of sex worker activists from SWAD (Sex Work Alliance Destigmatisation) joined an action Group to develop a national campaign to respond to the imminent threat of a new set of regulations and legislation in the Netherlands (WRS). These changes will negatively impact sex workers’ human rights in the Netherlands and might expand stigma and discrimination towards the community.
The campaign imagined by the action group includes interventions such as media training of community members championing decriminalisation in the Netherlands, engagement with Dutch media, an online awareness raising campaign and face to face dialogues with the broader public.
Entrance – Combiticket Striptopia and Party €20 euro (Cinetol)
If you identify as a sex worker, a stripper, refugee and/ or BIPOC Queer – this is your space. If this applies to you or if for some other reason you are struggling to pay the entrance fee, please CONTACT Queer is not a Manifesto through this form.
Striptopia provides an alternative option to traditional strip clubs. It is a pop-up strip club that uses mobile architecture and a mobile application as tools to create a transparent financial system, boundaries for consent and bodily autonomy. Through the use of technology we aim to facilitate healthier client interactions, financial autonomy and transparency for strippers in their workplace. Striptopia allows a collective group of strippers to have full political and financial control over the context in which their labor is performed as well as help address gender and race-based discrimination, destigmatize, educate and include diverse communities by appearing in different contexts.
Big Party
Sex work is work! Support the sex workers and strippers community by dancing your ass off! Multiple DJ’s will make you want to show your sexy moves.
Trans United Europe/ Trans European BPOC network has been founded to unite the networks of European operating Trans BPOC NGOs and individual BPOC trans activists living and working in Europe. We started in 2013 in the Netherlands with Trans United Nederland from which we formatted in Brussels the umbrella BPOC network Trans United Europe. Trans United Nederland is the Dutch department operating from the Red Light District in the heart of Amsterdam. We amplify European and global BPOC media content via social media, inform BPOC trans communities on trans sex work, gender-specific healthcare including HIV prevention programs for transmen and non-binary people. Trans United is a BPOC sex worker and BPOC trans people living with HIV led organisation.
Striptopia provides an alternative option to traditional strip clubs. It is a pop-up strip club that uses mobile architecture and a mobile application as tools to create a transparent financial system, boundaries for consent and bodily autonomy. Through the use of technology we aim to facilitate healthier client interactions, financial autonomy and transparency for strippers in their workplace. Striptopia allows a collective group of strippers to have full political and financial control over the context in which their labor is performed as well as help address gender and race-based discrimination, destigmatize, educate and include diverse communities by appearing in different contexts.
Queer is not a Manifesto is an organization that centers queer and fluïd Identities through activist practices. We do artistic direction, (event) production, coördination, communication and PR in order to push the queer agenda on queer terms. We use tools like a radical access plan and safe(r) spaces policies to actively counter
The panel discussion will focus on (the lack of) autonomy of sex workers and strippers. How can strippers get more direct financial control in their work environment? How does current national and local policy making enforce or discourage autonomy and agency for sex workers? How can sex workers and strippers rights be enhanced and what is needed from the queer community to show solidarity and support?
