Queer History Shorts

Shortfilm program, 69 min.

A selection of films from this program can also be streamed with the Online Festival Pass. Please find more information here.

New York, Rio, Marseille – a journey into our past. For the first time, the Pornfilmfestival Berlin is presenting an exciting “history lesson” on the sex parties, wild club nights and classic porn that laid the foundation for our desires and nightlife culture today.

Eavesdropping on Jason Sato’s Brothers (1973)

By: Nguyen Tan Hoang
US 2025, 05:53 min., engl. OV

A fascinating insight into early gay US pornography from an unusual political perspective, subtly conveyed through radio broadcasts in the background.

Orgy Every Other Day

By: Samuel Döring
US/DE 2024, 13:23 min, engl. OV + engl./dt. UT

A poetic recollection of sex parties in New York City, told from a genderqueer perspective.

Les fantômes du hard/ Ghosts of hard

By: Lazare Lazarus
FR 2025, 28:16 min., fr. OV + engl. UT

A group of young squatters in Marseille accidentally discover the estate of the founder of France’s first BDSM club, the Mineshaft, and set out to search for clues.

Vollúpya

By: Éri SARMET & Jocimar DIAS JR.
BR 2024, 21:00 min., port. OV + engl. UT

In this trip (with sci-fi elements) back to the 1990s, the queer nightclub Vollúpya, which played an important role in Rio de Janeiro for 12 years, is rediscovered.