The international short film competition is a long running tradition at the Pornfilmfestival Berlin. Once again this year an international jury will award the best short film. The award is endowed with a € 500 cash price.
Jan Künemund, Berlin
Film author and curator in Berlin. Has done press work for cinema films, was editor of the queer cinema magazine sissy, has taught Media Studies at the University of Hildesheim. Freelance film critic, curator for the Dokfest Kassel, consultant for the Berlinale Forum. Currently: book “Queer Cinema Now” (together with Christian Weber and Björn Koll) with accompanying film series at Berlin’s Arsenal cinema; film education project “Encounter RWF” at the Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum Frankfurt.
Erika Lust, Barcelona
Erika Lust
is an award-winning indie erotic filmmaker who’s been changing the rules of porn since 2004 by creating sex-positive adult cinema with relatable characters and sex scenarios, and offering a more inclusive and cinematic alternative to mass-produced porn.
She defends the importance of having women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ people behind the camera in all key positions by producing and financing female and queer guest directors across the globe.
She founded various online adult cinema platforms: her crowdsourced project XConfessions turns the public’s anonymous fantasies into explicit short films, Lust Cinema produces original feature films and series, while Else Cinema is the Erika Lust Soft Edition. The Porn Conversation is her non-profit platform helping families and educators to talk to young people about sex – beginning with the topic of porn.
Lidia Ravviso, London
Lidia Ravviso is a film director, artistic director, film and art curator, and photographer passionate about unconventional art practices, including erotica and ethical pornography.
From 2013 to 2016 she was a member of Italian film collective “Girls of Porn”, working on sexuality from a non-normative perspective, where she produced “Insight”. Since 2016, she has collaborated with XConfessions and Erika Lust Cinema for whom she released “The Listener”.
In 2019, Lidia became artistic director of UNCENSORED, a multidisciplinary film festival on pornography, art and activism that advocates for an uncompromising critical approach to the politics of pleasure. Since 2019, Lidia has collaborated with the London Fetish Film Festival as film programmer. She’s currently the artistic director and co-curator of “Glimpses”, a London-based art agency and lecturer at Kensington School of Arts of London.
