Whorehouse Cinema
queer.red presents! proudly returns with a second, expanded edition of their film and arts festival that celebrates the creativity of sex workers. This year, the program focuses on queer and trans sex workers, featuring a photography archive, an art exhibition, workshops by and for sex workers, a sharp selection of films and shorts, and a cabaret with performers from across the Netherlands and France.
INFO
Date | 28th of March
Location | Cinetol Zaal & Etage + Tolbar
Passe Partouts [access to all films in the programme] | €46,25 | link
Individual film tickets | €11,25 [see links below]
Workshops & performances | priced separately [see events at queer.red]
content warning | These films contain sexual contact and strong language. 18+.
[* ticketprices include €1,25 service costs]
PROGRAMME
18:00 | Sex Worker Art Exhibition
18:00 | opening show: short film & shibari performance
20:00 | short film programme: intro by SNAP! festival + Q&A with filmmakers
22:00 | Labor: documentary film
Opening Show: short film & shibari performance
Thriving: A Dissociated ReverieNicole Bazuin | Canada | 2023 | 10 min | English
A surrealist exploration of dissociative identity disorder (DID) based on the lived experience of a Black, nonbinary, disabled artist and former sex worker.
A new R’hope (shibari/kinbaku performance)
by Cyanhur and Messy Anni (France | 2024 | 30-35 min)
When everything has turned to chaos, resistance is whispering in the night, a rope lies on the ground, silent witness of a fractured world. In the middle of the rubble, two beings find each other and unite again. Together, they choose to share a moment of affection, to suspend time and defy the surrounding chaos. Let yourself be carried away by this suspended moment, where hope seems possible again.
This show contains bondage and BDSM scenes, as well as siren audios.
-INFO-Location | ZaalTimes | 18:00-19:30Tickets | €11,25* | link
Short Film Program: intro by SNAP! Festival + Q&A with filmmakers
42 Days
Nat Portnoy | the Netherlands | 2020 | 11 min | Polish with English subs
42 Days focuses on the moment of confrontation with a terminal disease and an attempt to process a personal tragedy.
This film deals with topics like terminal disease, disability and suicide.
Himno de las Putas (Revolución Puta)
Maria Galingo, members of OMESPRO chapters in Santa Cruz and La Paz | Bolivia | 2022 | 4 min | Spanish with English subs
What is the true door and what is the false door to enter the whore’s universe with a camera? With members of the organizations OMESPRO La Paz and OMESPRO Santa Cruz as direct protagonists and creators of the story, we use a symbolic lever to transfer the central discussions of the whore universe to a political and poetic space.
Not in Love (Pas Amoureux)Eugénie Bouquet | Switzerland | 2022 | 4 min | French with English subs
Two people are sitting on a bench in the Parc des Bastions in Geneva. One, Judith, is a sex worker who talks about her experience with disabled clients. The other one, me, is interviewing and recording her. An animated documentary about sex between people who are not in love.
This film engages with themes of illness and death.
Prima Vista
Squareheart & Cornpop Bright | Greece | 2024 | 3 min | No spoken language
Every gaze carries within it the potential for profound understanding. Through the lens of a woman’s eyes, we watch a private performance where sight transcends mere observation, becoming a vessel for connection and empathy.
READY
Vincent Weschelberger | Germany | 2024 | 10 min | English
READY is an honest portrait of contemporary queer sex work emerging out of my own relationship to it. This series offers a window into our reality – the elation and self-actualization, as well as the struggles and stigma we experience.
ReisendeCosmopolitrans, ESWA, BV Trans | Germany | 2022 | 14 min | Spanish with English subs
This short documentary addresses in a sensitive and detailed way the lives of migrant trans women working in the sex sector in Germany.
Sugar
Alyssa Brayboy | USA | 2023 | 6 min | English
We follow Banner on his search for a sex worker. He stumbles across Alora, who is usually up for anything, but she quickly learns Banner isn’t a typical client.
Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves
Chintis Lundgren | Estonia, Croatia, France | 2019 | 18 min | English
After losing a well paid engineering job, Toomas, a young hot wolf, gets cornered into working as a gigolo to support his family. He is keeping it a secret from his pregnant wife Viivi. Viivi also has a secret: she is attending a female empowerment seminar involving male slaves. When Toomas gets a role in a sexploitation movie, it becomes harder to keep his new profession a secret.
-INFO-Location | ZaalTimes | 20:00-21:30Tickets | €11,25* | link
Labor: documentary film
Labor
Tove Pils | Sweden | 2023 | 95 min | English
Hanna leaves her family behind to go to the city of her dreams, San Francisco. At a party, she meets the professional dominatrix Chloe and the escort Cyd and they embark on a self-fulfilling journey together.
-INFO-Location | ZaalTimes | 22:00-00:00Tickets | €11,25* | link
Praktische informatie
Deze show is rolstoeltoegankelijk. Heb je verder vragen over de toegankelijkheid van Cinetol, lukt het niet om online een kaartje te kopen of heb je een andere vraag? Bel ons op 020 248 0186, we zijn bereikbaar op kantoordagen tussen 10:00 – 18:00. Per mail contact opnemen kan ook via info@cinetol.nl.
