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Lust*streifen Film Festival Basel
Thursday, 10 October 2024 until Sunday, 13 October 2024
***Due to unforeseen circumstances in our organization, we will no longer be accepting submissions for the festival 2024. The festival is currently restructuring and will be held in a different form in 2024.
For everyone who has already submitted für 2024: We are deeply sorry to have waisted your time and energy for submitting. We will be informing you shortly via email about our further steps. Since we are not charging any submission fees, we will not be paying back any fees.
Film submissions for 2025 will open in 2025. Thank you for your understanding.***
The underrepresentation of queers in film is reality. They are in need of a visible platform, to promote the acceptance of diversity. Because visibility creates reflexion and reflexion gives us awareness. Awareness leads to movement and movement is change.
We want to bring queer stories througout the world to the screen, to make space for reflexion and productive discussions. Our films are provoking, revolutionary, feminist, experimental, political, kinky, sex positive, contradictory, punk, trashy, gay, hetero, trans*, polyamorous, monogamic and much more.
Audience Award
Best Fictional Short Film
Best Documentary Short Film
Best Porn Short Film
2024 films...
Short film program: HEIDILICIOUS
Lust*streifen turns 17 and we feel young, wild and amazing! We’re celebrating ourselves by presenting you current queer-feminist short films from Switzerland, which spark inspiration and hopefully ignite discussions.
Out of the Blue
Morgane Frund, CH 2023, 15’ (OV/e), Experimental
In 2013, an auteur film causes a scandal because of its sex scenes. The filmmaker is sixteen and one of the angry viewers. Ten years later, they are ready to settle the score with this film in the form of a video essay.
Waking up in Vegas
Michèle Flury, CH 2023, 15’ (OV), Fiction
YAEL is at the beginning of puberty and is searching for his own identity between his virile big brother and his queer best friend AARON. In the process, he not only questions himself, but also endangers his friendship with Aaron.
ALEXX196 & a plage de sable rose
Loïc Hob, CH 2023, 24’ (OV/e), Fiction
Alex and Sacha are deeply affected by the closure of the online video game on which they have become friends. While Alex and his mother go on vacation to the south of France, where Sacha lives, the two teenagers do everything they can to meet up and finish the game together.
Dragfox
Lisa Ott, UK 2024, 8’ (without dialogue), Animation
The young transgender protagonist Sam struggles with his identity in "Dragfox" until a charismatic fox comes to visit one evening. Together, the two learn to accept their differences on a magical musical adventure.
Remember, Broken Crayons Colour Too
Urša Kastelic, Shannet Clemmings, CH 2023, 13’ (without dialogue), Documentary
Shannet's voice echoes in the darkness. The night scenery of a modern city opens up. As she wanders the empty streets, memories begin to haunt her. Lost and trapped in an endless tunnel, finally, the horrifying reminiscences transform into music. She is playing the violin; she is alive. Shannet finds herself in front of a motionless carousel, waiting. She smiles as her friends join her. Together with them, Shannet stands still in silence.
Porn short film program: WET DREAMZ
The porn short film competition WET DREAMZ is dedicated to resilience and resistance, be it against patriarchal structures, environmental pollution or conservative movements. In these films, the protagonists prove that true strength develops in queer existence, but also in friendship and community and that new power can be found to achieve real change.
The Glory Box
Content Warning: Scenes of violence
Oil Productions, CH 2024, 13’ (without dialogue)
In an empty theater, four characters get together. A Piano ritual begins and the space starts to be transformed by a collective extasis.
Some Disordered Interior Geometries
Four Chambers, UK 2024, 14‘, (without dialogue)
An exploration of the body and all its interiors, the body as form, geometry, subject and object. Featuring angels Velvet Lucifer and Daisy Love in a homage to 1920’s surrealism and the photography of Francesca Woodman, Hans Bellmer and Penny Slinger amongst others. Slip into a dream state and explore the unconscious mind.
Jackob et Jim
Wolfgang Wisely, UK 2023, 2’ (E/e)
A new couple explore one anothers body whilst their friend tenderly introspects on a late appreciation of the male form.
Self Reflections
Ediy Porn, Brasilien 2024, 9’ (OV/e)
Between vibrations and tremors, Perre+ enjoys this self-pleasure session of wet pleasure.
The Cannoli Brothers
Ethan Folk and Ty Wardwell, Germany 2023, 2’ (E/e)
They may not be real brothers, but their cannoli are anything but fake.
The Lesbian Alien Darkroom Fisting Operetta on Venus
Lasse Langström, Sweden/Germany 2024, 14’ (without dialogue)
The angels have given the Captain of the Sea Butches the holy assignment to travel to a lesbian bar on Venus to get hold of the strongest vibrator in the whole universe – the weapon needed in the fight to destroy the phallic of the evil gentrifiers.
Porn short film program: FUCK FANTASY
The porn short film competition FUCK FANTASY brings together portraits that encourage us to critically question prevailing notions of normality and identity. The movies in this program bring us closer to the feelings, thoughts, and dreams of their protagonists and shed a poignant light on the challenges that queer lives often face in terms of societal constraints and social limitations.
Alchemy of the Meat
Mahx Capacity, USA 2024, 7’, (E/e)
As Mia Secreto (they/she) begins the ritual offering of their prostrated body, high priests Empress Wu (all pronouns) and Priestex (they/them) embrace the mortification of the flesh in a mouthy, wet, fisting, frenzy. Secreto’s siren call echoes from the depths, and Wu and Priestex are pulled to the limits of their self control as they consecrate Mia’s body in a ravenous frenzy with their fists, mouths, hands, and gaze. But who holds the power in this ritual? The apotheosis of the body reclaiming itself unlocks a force few mortals can withstand.
The Bar
altShift, UK 2023/24, 14’ (without dialogue)
A sensual celebration of movement; the Private Dancer hypnotises everyone who watches him perform, unlocking their deepest desires, sending them down the rabbit hole of their lust and controlling their bodies. Inspired by Lynch, Fassbinder and Kenneth Anger, the film is a kaleidoscope of sound and vision, drawing the viewer into a world of pleasure and indulgence.
Baby Blue
Content Warning: Depiction of blood & needles
Finn Darrell, USA 2023, 4’ (without dialogue)
An exploration of tenderness and goodbyes through needle play.
Under the Cherries
Frida Retz, Denmark 2024, 16’ (without dialogue)
In an absurd landscape where the grass is alive, and flowers grow out of asses, a goat and a goddess explore gender, sex, and power.
Levidis
Iris Glitzer, Germany 2023, 11’ (GR/e)
A jewel of architecture, Villa Levidis hosted dozens of iconic film shootings from the 60s to the 80s in Athens. Some decades later, on a sunny day, a daydreamer rests on its ruins while fantasizing about cruising with a stranger in the now destroyed mansion. Queer lust meets the golden era of Greek mainstream cinema in a dialogue around gender roles and social norms.
Funghi Boost
Bande James Bond, Belgium 2023, 12’, (without dialogue)
A strange quest for magical shroomies and extravagant treasures turns into terrific encounters with a mischievous diamond-loving fairy, unscrupulous gremlins and a thundering Vampirella Kinqueen. From desire to desire, how far will the adventure take us?
I'M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE
Klára Tasovská, Tschechien/Slowakei/Österreich, 2024, Documentary
After the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968, photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková strives to break free from the constraints of the repressive Czechoslovakian regime and embarks on a long journey towards freedom.
WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN
I-Hsuan Su, Taiwan, 2024, Fiction
In 1994, a female student joins a strike and encounters her first love girl. She begins to understand the protest is not only for freedom but also an undeniable love.
THE VISITOR
Bruce LaBruce, UK, 2024, Fiction
The Visitor follows a refugee who washes up in a small suitcase on the banks of the River Thames in London. Arriving at the house of an upper-class family, he seduces each and every family member, depicted in explicit sex scenes.
LIFE IS NOT A COMPETITION BUT I'M WINNING
Julia Fuhr Mann, Germany, 2023, Documentary
In a poetic-radical utopia, the film shakes up stereotypical gender relations in competitive sports. It searches for the queer-feminist potential in the Olympic running disciplines and sketches a world beyond rigid gender images.
YOUNG HEARTS
Anthony Schatteman, Belgium/Netherlands, 2024, Fiction
YOUNG HEARTS is a 2024 coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Anthony Schatteman. The film tells the story of 14-year-old boy Elias, who falls in love with his new neighbour boy Alexander of the same age.
ALL SHALL BE WELL
Ray Yeung, Hongkong/China, 2024
Angie and Pat are a couple living in Hong Kong who have been together for over four decades. After Pat's unexpected death, Angie finds herself at the mercy of her extended family as she struggles to retain both her dignity and the home that they shared for over thirty years.