In October and November, the Moviementon Cinema and the Porn Film Festival Berlin will present two films by Rosa von Praunheim.
“Thirty Years on the Whip” premiered to a sold-out audience at last year’s Porn Film Festival and opens at the Moviemento Cinema on October 16. We’ll be welcoming Lady MacLaine and other cast members, among others, to this event.
The new film “The Satanic Sow”, which had its successful world premiere at this year’s Berlinale, will be shown at the Porn Film Festival on October 25 and 26, 2025. Several actors will be present and can talk about filming with Rosa von Praunheim. Following the festival, the film will be shown in the regular program at the Moviemento Cinema starting November 27, 2025.
Thirty Years on the Whip
DE 2024, 90 Min., dt. OV m. engl. UT
By: Rosa von Praunheim
With: Lady MacLaine, Katja Inga Baldowski, Léon Schröder u. a.
Ticket for the screening on 2025-10-16, 20:00
In typical Rosa von Praunheim docu-fiction style, the legendary gay Berlin filmmaker portrays his neighbor, who worked for decades as a professional dominatrix in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf. While the real Lady MacLaine reflects with wit and honesty on her life and work, this is impressively retold in reenacted scenes. The very bourgeois side that BDSM can have is portrayed just as ruthlessly as the coincidence that led Lady MacLaine to become a dominatrix. Kink in Wilmersdorf is down-to-earth and real in its own special way!
Manuela Kay
The Satanic Sow
DE 2025, 85 Min., dt. OV+engl. UT
By: Rosa von Praunheim
With: Armin Dallapicolla, Katy Karrenbauer u. a.
Berlin’s gay film legend Rosa von Praunheim once again graces the PFFB with his bittersweet sarcasm, this time in a biographical essay. In the crude setting of his vintage apartment overcrowded with stuffed animals, Rosa’s alter ego reflects – between desirable young men – on the 150 films of his life. At the same time, explores questions like is there “sex after death”, what God has to say about it, as well as other essential philosophical considerations of age and sexuality. As always, it’s trashy yet intelligent, walking the fine line between bad taste and genius.
Manuela Kay
