COMPETITION AND AWARDS
Who cums or squirts the farthest, who moans the higher, who could take the biggest... hand. There's many, many questions when we think about porn and competition. But what about a film festival? The idea here is not to create a concurrence, but to highlight creations that touch the deepest our psyché and that reflects at the bottom of dripping fluids the spirit of our porny time. To celebrate new ways of thinking pornography and to highlight productions that push the boundaries of what porn can be, or look, or sound like!
Since its first edition, the festival has held an international and national competition, with a jury board composed by 3 professionals from different backgrounds who will each represent an approach to pornographic or film productions. Our goal is to mix perspectives and to create a bridge between "traditional" cinema and the pornographic industry, by fostering interactions and connections between those two poles that rarely touch. With that in mind, our jury board is usually composed of a porn industry's personality, a porn film scholar or programmer, and a Belgian "traditional" cinema professional. Past jury members include names like Vex Ashley, Matt Lambert, Kis Keya, Carmina, Sarah Moon Howe and Nicolas Rios.
The jury delivers the Best International Porn Short, the Best National Porn Short as well as the Special Jury Prize. There's also a place for the public here, who deliver the Public Award to the film that has most captivated the audience.
For the Public Award, at the end of every screening you will be able to vote for your favorite film. The votes will be gathered on a ballot until Sunday, where it will be counted by our team before the closing ceremony.
Our prize is handmade by ceramist artist Simon Aubry Picaudot.
BISHOP BLACK
Bishop Black (they/them) is a Berlin based, Black British porn performer, sex worker, dancer, theater performer and director and all-round charmer. They have worked with some of the industry’s most provocative figures including Venice Biennale artist Shu Lea Cheang, Bruce LaBruce, Erika Lust, Paulita Pappel and many more
PUCK ELLINGTON
A transient feeling of bliss wrapped in earthly form; Puck, (she/they/any pronouns) is an artist / pornographer based at the crossroad of sex work, filmmaking and writing in Berlin since 2020. Embodying tales of queer, coloured, and unconventional desire, their work in all lanes arrives at a boiling pot of soft and sexy freak-hood. In their midsummer nights, pedestals dissolve like morning mist, giving rise to a platform that invites the soul to explore the depths of its own fantasies — most recently, this exploration comes in the form of Puck’s directorial debut, as one of four writer-directors on the anthological SPT film project “Onyx & Rosa”.
A transient feeling of bliss wrapped in earthly form; Puck, (she/they/any pronouns) is an artist / pornographer based at the crossroad of sex work, filmmaking and writing in Berlin since 2020. Embodying tales of queer, coloured, and unconventional desire, their work in all lanes arrives at a boiling pot of soft and sexy freak-hood. In their midsummer nights, pedestals dissolve like morning mist, giving rise to a platform that invites the soul to explore the depths of its own fantasies — most recently, this exploration comes in the form of Puck’s directorial debut, as one of four writer-directors on the anthological SPT film project “Onyx & Rosa”.
LAURENT MICHELI
Laurent Micheli graduated from INSAS in Brussels in 2007. He began his career in theatre, performing in Belgian and French productions for ten years before directing several plays, notably with the theatre company Madame Véro. In 2016, he directed his first self-produced feature film, Even Lovers Get the Blues, before joining L'atelier scénario at La Fémis in Paris. The film, praised for its exploration of sexuality, earned him a nomination for Best First Film at the Magritte Awards. After attending the Émergence residency in Paris, he directed Lola vers la mer (2019), starring Benoît Magimel and Mya Bollaers, who made her acting debut as an 18-year-old transgender girl. The film received critical acclaim, was released in around fifteen countries, and was selected for numerous festivals worldwide. It won around twenty awards, including two Magritte Awards, and was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the César Awards. Since 2022, he’s a committee member of the New Dawn fund. He’s also teaching at INSAS in Brussels. Laurent recently completed his third feature film, Nino dans la nuit, an adaptation of the novel by Capucine and Simon Johannin, produced by Wrong Men in Belgium and Haut & Court in France.
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FESTIVAL PASS
Rue des Fripiers 15, 1000 Brussels
Quai au Bois à Bruler 5-7, 1000 Brussels
Galerie de la Reine 26, 1000 Brussels
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CONTACT
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