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Solo + Intro by PFFA + Q&A

29 March, 2025 @ 13:00 – 14:15 CET

Location: Grote Zaal | Times: 13:00-14:15 | Entrance: €11,25 @ Cinetol

This film will be introduced by Porn Film Festival Amsterdam which aims to create a safe and accessible space where marginalised voices can be heard, and where the community can come together to explore, reclaim and celebrate their autonomy and art.

Solo

Andrés Valenzuela Arellano | Chile | 2025 | 63 min | Spanish with English subs

SOLO invites us into the world of Ed, an erotic performer from Chile. Under an explosion of neon lights and desire, Andrés Valenzuela Arellano weaves fluidity and explicit intimacy into an expanded experience. More than cinema, it’s an invitation to break taboos and push boundaries.

SOLO delves into the life and work of Edandress, a Chilean performer and erotic content creator, as they embark on a journey through pivotal milestones. From their childhood and adolescence in Melipilla to their beginnings in the erotic industry, the film, directed by Andrés Valenzuela and produced by Cinéculo, embodies the metaphor of dilation as the protagonist opens their personal space to the camera. It tackles themes like consent while revealing the essence of pleasure in everyday life: breaking free from a repressive, guilt-driven society and experiencing absolute freedom by embracing exploration.

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    Online Sex Work 101

    29 March, 2025 @ 12:00 – 15:00 CET

    Workshop: Online Sex Work 101 Sex Worker ONLY

    By Jaq Quicksilver

    Location: Etage | Times: 12:00-15:00 (including break) | Tickets: Donation (suggested sliding scale €0-20) – online registration required

    Online sex work has exploded in popularity (and profits) since 2020. Kick-start your digital business by learning the basics of fan sites and clip creation, establishing and growing your brand, safety, and staying compliant with the law.

    This workshop will be in English, is SW-only and offers space for max 12 participants.

    Jaq Quicksilver (they/he/she) is a nonbinary and gender fluid content creator formerly from the SF Bay Area, California. Their body of commercial pornographic work chronicles their experimentation with gender and their ongoing physical transition. When not toiling in the smut mines, they enjoy bodybuilding, reading, needlecrafts, and chilling with their two cats. They moved to Amsterdam in February 2024 primarily to escape an increasingly anti-trans and anti-porn political and social landscape.

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    Labor

    28 March, 2025 @ 22:00 – 23:55 CET

    Labor (documentary)

    Location: Zaal | Times: 22:00-00:00| Tickets: €11,25 @ Cinetol

    Tove Pils | Sweden | 2023 | 95 min | English

    Hanna leaves her family and her girlfriend behind to go to San Francisco. She dreams of exploring her sexuality way beyond what is possible in her small Swedish hometown. At a party in San Francisco she gets to know two experienced sex workers: Chloe, a professional domina with dreams of a better life and Cyd, a playful and shameless escort, selling sex to gay men.

    Together with them Hanna embarks on a journey. For the first time in her life she starts to feel like she could belong somewhere. But staying in San Francisco is expensive. To be able to remain in the city Hannah wants to try sex work herself and starts working with Chloe.

    Chloe and Cyd are at a different part of their journey, wanting to create more stable lives for themselves in a city that is rapidly gentrifying. There are both ups and downs to sex work for all of them and while Hanna is beginning to live the life she’s been dreaming of, there is something looming at the horizon.

    Hanna’s new way of life doesn’t align with the values of her loved ones back in Sweden. But maybe her girlfriend will understand Hanna’s choices better after she comes to visit? And maybe if Hanna dares to be open to her parents they would actually become closer?

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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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    sex worker film & art festival | 28-30 march

    28 March, 2025 @ 18:00 – 30 March, 2025 @ 20:30 CET

    Welcome back to the second edition of queer.red presents! Whorehouse Cinema & Cabaret!

    queer.red presents! proudly returns for a second and amplified edition of our film and arts festival that celebrates the art of sex workers! This year, our programme focuses on queer and trans sex workers (as always)  and now with a much needed cabaret! 

    In 2020 queer.red emerged with a manifesto to destigmatize how sex work is discussed and encourage expanding the rights and autonomy of sex workers. Since then, we have organised 25+ events and collaborated internationally with festivals in Korea, Austria, Ireland, and Belgium as well as in the Netherlands. Throughout our journey, we’ve upheld our mission to direct resources to sex workers and support their creation of art, to center the voice of sex workers, and seek out their stories. 

    This second edition of the festival offers an archive of photography, an art exhibition, workshops by and for sex workers, a sharp selection of films and shorts, as well as a cabaret that includes performers from throughout the Netherlands and France. Filmmakers will be traveling across the globe to present their work and for many it is the first time they are being compensated with a participation fee. 

    We are also taking this opportunity to reaffirm our collaboration with sex worker-led organisations like Papaya Kuir and SAVE as well as other community-led festivals like SNAP! and Porn Film Festival Amsterdam. 

    During the festival, we want those who are mostly impacted by injustice, capitalism, racism, homo- and transphobia, to be able to participate in our festival. Therefore some programmes will be sex worker-only, donation-based, or on a sliding scale. Our aim for this year is to make sure that 85% or more of the total budget goes directly to sex worker artists and volunteers. 

    This event is by the community, for the community. You are invited to join in on it’s diversity, creativity and audacity.

    See you at the Whorehouse!  

    The queer.red team & board

    Alexis, Aline, Angel, Domi, Majk and Plette

    opening night!

    28 March, 2025 @ 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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