Opening Film: NARCISSISM – The Auto-Erotic Images

Film program, DE 2022, 90 min., dt./engl. OV + engl./dt. UT

By: Toni Karat

With: Birgit Bosold, Del LaGrace Volcano, Eric Shen, Krista Beinstein, Maja Buhmann, Kristina Marlen, Lexi Dark, Ruben María u. a.

We are happy to welcome director Toni Karat at the Pornfilmfestival.

The 17^th Pornfilmfestival opens with a true ‘family film’. Non-binary film maker Toni Karat invited queer and sex-positive people of the ‘Berlin porn bubble’ for this impressive documentary about narcissism and self-love. In authentic and touching self-reflective interviews ten protagonists who are as diverse as possible – lesbian, gay, queer, trans, non-binary and often over 50 – tell their sexual stories and contemplate their personal journeys and struggles. It’s an almost philosophical little masterpiece with a lot of honesty and authenticity on both sides of the camera. With an unexpected lesbian-feminist twist towards the end, Toni Karat manages to more or less summarize the entire Pornfilmfestival in just one film.

More interviews and portraits will be published in a book which will come out in time for the festival.

Manuela Kay

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