Kokomo City

Film program, US 2023, 73 min., engl. OV

By: D. Smith

With: Daniella Carter, Dominque Silver, Koko Da Doll, Liyah Mitchell

Already all the buzz on the big film festival circuit, if you haven’t seen it yet, don’t miss your chance to see Kokomo City at the Pornfilmfestival Berlin. D. Smith’s fierce and engaging black-and-white documentary features four Black transgender sex workers in New York and Atlanta in the US. Through talking-head interviews with the protagonists as well as a handful of admirers and a bangin’ soundtrack, Smith’s film allows typically marginalized voices to tell their own stories, while also delivering a stylish and thoroughly entertaining and important film.

Walter Crasshole