The Pornfilmfestival Berlin is an alternative, independent film festival that focuses on sexuality, politics, feminism and gender issues.
In the last years we wanted to focus on some issues that are important to us and that we felt don’t have enough representation in sex/erotic film. Or we simply didn’t have enough films submitted that have these themes in focus.
With this call we want to encourage filmmakers to make and to submit films that deal with these issues and initiate 3 new competition sections.
The issues in question are:
Lesbian sex – unlike in the beginning of the festival in the last couple of years the representation of lesbian and dyke desire and sex has decreased in the films that are being submitted to the festival. Lesbian visibility and representation in combination with sex and desire is still important to us and we want to show more of it.
Black, indigenous and people of color as subjects – not objects – of sex and as sexually acting individuals are still very rare even in alternative porn. The festival has always addressed issues like bad clichés and the lack of representation of persons that are BiPoc. But we want more films that show a broader, better and more diverse representation of ethnicity and cultural diversity.
Old, young, all ages, all combinations – age is an issue that is long on the festival agenda but hasn’t really seen a wide representation in the festival films. Therefore we want more films that show sex and desire beyond the age of 50 or 60, films that show age gaps between sex partners that can be more than just a few years, we want to see bodies of all (adult) ages and generational interaction, discussion and appreciation.
We’re excited to announce three new awards that will be presented in the 2021 festival edition, and we call specifically for entries in these categories:
LESBIAN FILM AWARD
BIPOC FILM AWARD
SEX & AGE FILM AWARD
The awards will be endowed with 500 Euro price money.
The films can be max. 20 minutes long and have to be submitted to the festival for the first time! Max. 3 films per film maker.
The film submission is now open until April 30th, 2021 through our website:
https://pornfilmfestivalberlin.de/en/about-the-festival/submission/
