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The Pornfilmfestival Berlin (PFFB) returns for its 18th edition on October 24-29, 2023. Moviemento cinema and Babylon Kreuzberg will once again be the two venues.

With 24 feature-length films, including seven documentaries and 17 features, as well as 23 short film programs, the Pornfilmfestival Berlin 2023 celebrates its coming-of-age anniversary! Founded in 2006 as an independent, non-commercial and non-publicly-funded film festival, the PFFB annually presents films around the themes of sexuality, politics, feminism, gender diversity, post-porn and body politics.

On August 3^rd, 2023 at 20:30 Pornfilmfestival Berlin presents Nachtkatzen (De Noche Los Gatos Son Pardos) at Moviemento Kino. Director Valentin Merz will be present. Moderation: Jürgen Brüning

Nachtkatzen (De Noche Los Gatos Son Pardos)

CH 2022, 110 minutes, OV mit engl. UT

By: Valentin Merz
With: Bishop Black, Nataliea Portnoy

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You just want to shoot an erotic horror film in the Jura pampas, far away from modern civilisation, and then this happens: the actors turn into zombies, the locations collapse, and then the director disappears and is found on the other side, in Mexico, as an embalmed corpse. An inspector is supposed to bring light into the jungle – one who seems to come straight out of a gay hardcore porno. Does that sound strange? It is, and one of the most original, imaginative and stimulating films of the year. Valentin Merz, lead actor from the Berlinale hit “Unrest”, has made an immoderate, polymorphously perverse horror-post-punk comedy with a sexually very diverse and international team. A film on the edge between reality and appearance that sets new standards for queer filmmaking. The film features many familiar faces from the Berlin scene, such as Bishop Black. Our discovery from the Rotterdam Film Festival! Here cinema becomes sexual practice!

UKI, the new film by Taiwanese-US artist Shu Lea Cheang, celebrated its world premiere at Filmfest München on June 29, 2023. Now follows the Berlin premiere on July 21 and 22 at Kranzler Eck and on September 7 at Kino Moviemento.

Tickets for Juli 21 and 22, 2023

Tickets for September 7, 2023, 21:00

In UKI, Reiko – a discarded sex worker and replicant – finds herself in a landfill for electronic waste in the year 2060. Discarded – having become obsolete as an orgasm data collector – Reiko tries to regain control over her own hard drive body, which glitches and takes on new forms. Eventually, Reiko transforms into a virus to save the planet from the ruthless plans of a biotech company.

What sounds wild is wild! 1950s commercials, images by de Chirico, Hopper, Soylent Green, “The Fantastic Voyage”, Corona… Shu Lea Cheang draws on a wealth of inspiration to create an exciting, polysexual, gender fluid film of extraordinary visuality. From 3-D graphics to cinematic mise-en-scène generated with game engines to live-action scenes enriched with visual effects, the filmmaker uses all forms of contemporary digital cinematography. UKI is a beguiling viewing experience – a film for the 21^st century! “UKI” was conceived in 2009 as a sequel to Shu Lea Cheang’s “I.K.U.,” a sci-fi cyberpunk film that screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

The two-day screening and event program at Bilka im Kranzler-Eck extends the cinematic world of UKI through installations, sound and live performances by artists who contributed significantly to the film.

The LAS Art Foundation is a Berlin-based art platform at the intersection of art, technology and science. With experimental projects in unconventional locations, both in digital and physical space, LAS Art Foundation continues to explore innovative forms of exhibition practice.

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Saturday, 25 February 2023
13:00-17:30

Facilitators: Nils Meyn, Simon Schultz, Ben Miller
Language: ENGLISH
Maximum participants: 12 (all genders are welcome)
Fee: 10 EUR, 3 EUR reduced rate
Registration (required until 10.02.):  fuehrungen@schwulesmuseum.de
Please let us know, why you’d like to participate
Location: Schwules Museum, Lützowstraße 73, 10785 Berlin
(wheel-chair accessible, please read notes: https://www.schwulesmuseum.de/besuch/#/ )

COVID: FFP2 masks are mandatory.

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This year three juries have decided on the awards of the 17^th Pornfilmfestival Berlin. Our congratulations go out to all winners! Here you can find the complete list with all jury motivations.

You didn’t get all the cinema tickets at the festival you wanted to have? No problem – the streaming tickets for the 17^th Pornfilmfestival are still available until November 14, 2022!

For more information and a link to buy tickets, see Pornfilmfestival Berlin at Home.