PornFilmFestival Berlin will have it’s 5th edition this upcoming October. Before we will present to you new and old highlights to warm you up for the next fest.

May 26th to June 6th mark the dates for the Globale Filmfestival, happening at Moviemento cinema. One Focus of this years festival is the sexual revolution. On June 2nd two films will highlight this subject followed by discussions.

Vogliamo anche le rose (Moviemento 2, June 2nd, 6:15pm)
Dir.: Alina Marazzi, Italy 2007, 85 Min.
We Want Roses Too aims to portray the deep changes brought on by the »sexual revolution« and the feminist movement in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s. The film reflects on recent events from a female point of view, through the first-hand accounts provided by the diaries of three women and visually supported by archive footage drawn from various sources.
Language: Italian, Subtitles: Englisch
Guest: Alina Marazzi (Director) Discussion in English

Pornoprotokolle (Moviemento 2, June 2nd, 8:45pm)

Dir.: Isabella Willinger, Germany 2009, 70 Min.
»Porn is pop.« Pornography is everywhere. For whom is this plethora of images made? Who profits and how are the working conditions of the actors and actresses? The film documents the encounter with protagonists of the porn industry and queer activists who work with pornography as an emancipatory practice.
Sprache: deutsch
Guest: Julia Poliak (Ko-author and DOP), Jürgen Brüning (PornFilmFestival Berlin) Discussion in German

In July PornFilmFestival Berlin presents two films, which will give new inside information to queer lifestyle. Together with distribution company Bildkraft from Berlin we will present the new release of Pornography by David Kittredge. Claus Matthes (PornFilmFestival Berlin) and a famous pornstar will do an introduction.

Pornography, David Kittredge, USA 2009, 113 Min

In this sexy, trippy, psychological creep-show, a gay porn star named Mark Anton mysteriously disappears after he decides to leave the business at the height of his fame in 1995. Rumors about murder and blackmail swirl for 14 years, until Michael, a young New York writer researching a book about pornography, decides to investigate the strange events. An underground video is unearthed that might be a snuff film capturing the missing star’s bizarre — and perhaps supernatural — vanishing act. Michael’s sleuthing brings back the same paranormal energy that destroyed Mark, turning his own life into a surreal, voyeuristic nightmare.

Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, porn “brand” Matt Stevens decides he wants to direct a film about the disappearance of the missing star and feverishly pens a screenplay based on his own disturbing dreams (a “porno thriller in three acts”) called The Mark Anton Story. He’s given the green light by his skeptical producer, as long as he plays the starring role. The production is obviously cursed, as reality and fantasy blur while Matt relives Mark’s final days in the industry.

Warning: There are no (unsimulated) pornographic scenes in this movie. But it does have a twisty, clever script; ample male nudity; genuine suspense; a hot cast and plenty of mindfucking. Plus a mysterious ring, a menacing stranger and a rent boy who accepts personal checks. — CHRISTOPHER KEECH

July 8th, Moviemento 2, 8:30pm, English with German subtitles.

Emilie Jouvet, who is known for her groundbreaking film „One Night Stand“, presents with PornFilmFestival Berlin her new film,

TOO MUCH PUSSY! Feminist Sluts in The QueerXShow, Emilie Jouvet, France/Germany 2010, 97 Min.

It is an explicit documentary about the wild adventures of 7 women on a performance art tour, who travelled in a van around Europe during the summer of 2009, treaded the stages of nightclubs and theaters in Paris, Berlin, Stockholm… They are activists, artists, writers, musicians, sex-workers, porn stars. They are from Europe and from America. They are of various sexual (dis)orientations and gender expressions. The film documents the tour, the life-changing experiences that the 7 girls go through, the intersections in their shows and in their lives between pornography and art,  performance and reality, personal and political.

Emilie Jouvet, Wendy Delorme, Judy Minx, Sadie Lune, Mad Kate and Metzgerei Schnitzlbaumer bring you this sex-positive feminist manifesto. Go and talk with them about their great European adventure after the screening and celebrate at the Afterparty at LUX

July 9th, Kino Eiszeit, 8:30pm, Cinema 1 English subtitles, Cinema 2, German subtitles

Off we go with another highlight which caused heated discussions at last year’s festival. The Life and Death of a Porno Gang, which has achieved cult status meanwhile. Jochen Werner (PornFilmFestival Berlin) will introduce the film.

The Life and Death of a Porno Gang, Mladen Djordjevic, Serbia 2009, 105 Min.

Marko is an ambitious filmmaker whose gangster bosses don’t appreciate his art porn. Beaten up, hunted, and fearing for his life, Marko stages a live porn show all over Serbia with a group of outcasts: junkies, transvestites and homosexuals. Mladen Djordjevic plunges his protagonists into a nightmare of sex, crime, murder and snuff, and creates a bitter study of a devastated postwar country after Milosevic.
August 12th, Moviemento, 8.30pm, Serbian with English subtitles

Concluding the series will be our popular „Fun Porn“ shortfilm program. Hosted by Manuela Kay (PornFilmFestival Berlin) you will have fun watching porn. If you don’t trust us, come and see.
September 16th, Moviemento, 8:30pm, All films with English subtitles