The Red Dawns Film Collective will once again curate short DIY queerfeminist films with a focus on erotics and porn, showcasing works that reclaim desire from patriarchal, commodified, and normative narratives. We see erotic representation as a site of political resistance — a space to affirm consent, body diversity, sexual autonomy, and pleasure as tools for subversion and resilience.

This programme brings together a bold selection of shorts that challenge the conventions of cinema and reclaim the gaze from patriarchal and capitalist structures. Centring queer, fat, femme, and other non-normative bodies, these films turn pleasure into a form of resistance and make the screen a site of liberation.

This program assembles a fiercely intersectional selection of shorts that reclaim the body, space, and voice from the grips of patriarchy, capitalism, and normative cinematic language. Drawing from feminist film theory’s critique of the “male gaze” and its structural erasure of marginalized subjectivities, these works center queer, fat, femme, and non-normative bodies as active agents of pleasure, resistance, and world-making.

From Planetary Loss’ sensual eco-poetics, which entwine planetary collapse with the erosion of erotic possibility, to A Certain Kind’s meta-portrait of feminist and queer pornographic production grounded in consent, autonomy, and bodily diversity, this program claims desire as a terrain of political struggle. Object(s) of Desire reimagines fat queer sexuality beyond fetishizing objectification, centering mutual affirmation and joy, while Plenum im Tuntenhaus offers an insider’s, irreverent glimpse into queer resistance to gentrification. In She’s the Protagonist, female* archetypes break free from narrative containment, embarking on a humorous journey toward self-determination. The performative interventions of GORGON*URBAN extend this reclamation into the streets, transforming public space into a collective, non-hierarchical site of queerfeminist resistance and connection.

Together, these films do not merely represent social justice movements — they perform them through form, process, and embodied presence, making cinema itself a site of intersectional struggle and liberation.

Object(s) of Desire
Liberty Antonia Sadler, UK, 2024, 4’

An intimate, colour-drenched celebration of queer fat sensuality, Object(s) of Desire is a slow and sweet invocation of queer joy, fat pleasures, and friendship. It provocatively questions a fatphobic culture with the invitation: “Do you object?… or indulge?”

She’s the Protagonist
Sarah Carlot Jaber, Belgium, 2021, 14’

Being the mother, the secretary, the lover, the nanny, the baby bottle, the side piece of the main male character is no longer enough for our dear Protagonist. Silenced after exceeding the screen time allocated to female* characters, she escapes with her friend Voice-Over on a humorous journey of rebellion and self-determination.

GORGON*URBAN
Austria, 2022, 5’

This music video channels the raw energy of GORGON*URBAN, an artistic duo whose performative actions and public space interventions challenge the patriarchal order from a queerfeminist perspective. Rooted in non-hierarchical collaboration and the rejection of individual authorship, their work fuses bodies, movement, and urban landscapes into a collective act of resistance — turning streets, squares, and forgotten corners into living sites of solidarity, defiance, and shared creation.

Plenum in Tuntenhaus
Lasse Långström, Sweden/Germany, 13’

An excerpt from a longer work in development, Plenum in Tuntenhaus combines sharp humour with a distinctly contemporary queer visual language. It offers a fast-paced insider’s view of the Tuntenhaus collective’s fight against gentrification in Berlin.

A Certain Kind
Gabriel Gutierrez Morales, USA, 2024, 16’

A short documentary offering a behind-the-scenes look at a queer porn production company committed to creating a space for healthy, ethical, and empowering sexual expression.

Planetary Loss
Ceza Bularca, Romania, 2024, 3’

This music video porn-poem reminds us that the body — including the sexual, sensual body — is inseparable from the planet. As ecosystems collapse, so too do our capacities for pleasure, intimacy, and desire. How can we reclaim joy and erotic connection in the face of devastation?

You can find out more about Kino Katarina, through their website.

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Organization: 26th International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns (KUD Mreža) and Kino Katarina

Curatorial team: Sasha Ihnatovich, Jasmina Mustafić, Jelena Radić

Visual identity: Kino Katarina

Contacts for the media: Saša Nemec, rdece.zore@gmail.com

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