Competition Porn Shorts
Shortfilm program, 75 min.
A selection of films from this program can also be streamed with the Online Festival Pass. Please find more information here.
This year’s Competition selection covers Y2K cyber-fantasies, reflections on gay cruising, queer intimacy in Berlin’s darkrooms, trans embodiment, scorching hot sex, and DIY music video joy. Formally inventive, emotionally raw, and grounded in lived experience.
Mommy
By: Manon Praline & Evie Snax
DE/US 2024, 8:40 min., engl. OV + engl. UT
Manon Praline reflects on life six years post-surgery in this intimate, visually stunning follow-up to their film “Baby Set against the vast American Southwest and scored by Josephine Shetty, “Mommy” is a raw, tender journey of trans joy, truth and transformation.
R the Straights OK
By: Olivia Lee
US 2024, 4:12 min., engl. OV
A playful queer punk anthem comes to life with Bay Area kinksters and queers flaunting joy, freakery, and resistance. Pillowprince’s music video is a glittery middle finger to bigotry, and a celebration of radical, unapologetic queer pleasure.
Baise Platine
By: Johan Gayraud
FR 2024, 5:01 min., fr. OV + engl. UT
A gay orgy unfolds to the pulse of a slick French indie track in this euphoric ode to queer pleasure. “Baise Platine” celebrates a libertarian utopia where bodies, beats and desire melt into one glorious, all-consuming rhythm.
Hijos de Hímero (Sons of Himeros)
By: Santiago Calle
CO 2024, 16:05 min., sp. OV + engl. UT
Cruising becomes a path to self-confrontation in this intimate reflection on gay identity, repression, and pleasure beyond labels. A raw, poetic dive into the contradictions of queer desire and the freedom found outside the margins.
Onda di Calor (Heatwave)
By: Zuma Link
BR 2024, 16:54 min., port. OV + engl. UT
On a scorching day, four construction workers get an unexpected visit from the provocative BixaPuta. What follows is a steamy, joyful ode to queer desire, sweat and unapologetically filthy sex. Bring water… it’s gonna get hot.
Y2KAGE
By: Jazzy Boho
US 2025, 7:53 min., engl. OV + engl. UT
A dazzling Y2K apocalyptic fever dream where cyberlust, virtual pets, and neon nostalgia collide. An exploration of erotic hauntology in a world shaped by Bush Era surveillance, glitchy futures, and the ghosts of a millennium that never arrived. Bring your Tamagotchi!
Cumrags
By: BLADE
DE 2025, 15:55 min., engl. OV, no dialogue
In Berlin’s darkrooms, Blade and Nano move through sex, sweat, and shadows, finding unexpected tenderness in the anonymous crush. “Cumrags” is a raw, moving story about queer intimacy, sex work and the care that lives in the dark.
