Lilith Rising

Film program, US 2024, 70 min., engl. OV

By: Maria Beatty

With: Rà Valentina Nikolaidis, Surgeon aka Domina MX, MarteSaroja, Jessie Sparkles, Ruby Star, Juliana Piccillo

The Pornfilmfestival Berlin has repeatedly shown films by Maria Beatty since the early years. Thanks to her unique visual language in high-contrast b/w images and her preoccupation with BDSM, Maria Beatty always succeeds in creating new perspectives on sexual encounters and various fetishes. The festival last showed Spit and Ashes in 2019. This year, Maria Beatty will present her new film Lilith Rising in person.

The beguiling landscape of the Arizona desert forms the backdrop of the film, in which Lilith fights for the rights of marginalized minorities, be it the stereotype of the “wild” woman, the witches who were burned; the sex workers, the queers, POCs, transgender people, people with physical and mental disabilities. Lilith Rising is a tribute to all those we have lost on the way to claiming our rights.