For this 11th edition of the festival, the cinema programming team has selected 32 short and medium-length films and 6 feature films for its cinema-loving audience! All these films are in competition and will be watched and awarded by different group of people. Festival-goers will vote to award the Public Prize for their favorite short film, two formidable Jury will elect the winning films of the Jury Prize for feature films and Jury Prize for short films and the team of our partner Pink Label TV will reward the best explicit film. The short films have been organized into carefully designed thematic blocks to help you navigate through the programming and allow you to choose the sessions that best suit your desires.
This year, two blocks of out-of-competition short films complete this programming: EDIY PORN and Being & Belonging.
Good sessions!
• PRIZES
Feature Film Jury Prize
Short Film Jury Prize
Porn Prize (awarded by Pink Label TV)
Audience Prize
• JURYS
Feature film jury
Benji Egger : In his transdisciplinary practice Benjamin Egger deals with the relationship between non-human and human animals. Currently living and working in Zurich he explores topics such as posthuman intimacy, coevolution and the animal as alien. His film “And Then We Touch” was awarded with the Prix Porn at the 10th edition of La Fête du Slip in 2022.
Gemma Ushengewe : Gemma Ushengewe (they/she), artist living in Geneva, practices cinema, video and performance. Currently in a CCC Master's program at HEAD Geneva, they are interested in the forms of reappropriation of narratives in the neo-colonial context.
Sascha Rijkeboer : For several years, Sascha Rijkeboer has been working to promote the visibility of non-binary people in the German part of Switzerland. As an activist, they work in the field of media and education and use different practices such as writing, performance, theater and video within their own agency. They are featured in the award-winning documentary "Being Sascha" made in Basel.
Short film jury
Manon Praline : Manon Praline is a white transfem sexworker based in Berlin. Passionately active in queer porn since 2016, she notably directed "Merci Madame Manon" which received the Jury Prize at the FdS in 2022.
Renata Torralba : Renata Torralba is a Brazilian filmmaker and multimedia artist based in Lisbon. In a constant investigation into body, sexuality, gender, and experimentation, her works invite viewers to step out of their comfort zone and question the boundaries between reality and fiction. Member of the EdiyPorn since 2020, she is currently developing an installation piece “Linhas “Estranhas”, a motion picture "El amor es el espejo de la verdad", and freelancing a wide range of roles in the Multimedia sector.
Yumie Volupté : Yumie is a sex worker and founder of the sex education website Close To You.
Call for entries
Every year since 2012, Sexuality & Gender Art Festival creates a radical space of expression for non-normative, creative, sex-positive sexualities and disobedient genders identities in Lausanne, Switzerland.
La FdS has a multidisciplinary program of around 30 projects focused on genders, sexualities and affects. During 4 days, concerts, DJ sets, performances, talks, workshops, radio, exhibitions, online programs, and film competitions take place in a festive and kind atmosphere.
The film selection seeks to highlight works that present high artistic quality, explore singular erotic narrative approaches, and renew hegemonic representations of bodies, genders, sexualities, erotic and love relations, affects and feelings.
All formats are welcome ! Long, medium and short films, fiction, documentary and experimental, Among the many kind of films represented, we value (post-)pornography as we believe it is a powerful tool to unlearn all that is not useful to us and to create new delicious experiences and references.
La FdS is a vibrant meeting place for artists, musicians, thinkers, activists, filmmakers, curious, queer, old and young audiences interested in sharing on genders and sexualities, where a lot of love, tears and debates are shared <3
RÈGLEMENT ET CONDITIONS
Only films from 2020 to 2023 are admitted.
We encourage (teams of) filmmakers that have a political and ethical policy based on safety rules and active anti-racist, anti-transfobic, anti-validist attitude to the people they collaborate with. The film director should have a personal implication with the subject of the film and/or the aesthetic identity. If we get to know the film has any accusation of harassment or abusive treatments, if will be automatically dismissed.
To submit a film send it here: https://filmfreeway.com/LaFeteduSlip
Since 2015, La Fête du Slip presents a international film competition each year. In the first four years, the competition was solely focused on porn shortfilms. In 2019, the festival team took the time to rethink the entire concept and terms of the competition. Since 2019 then, the competition is open to films of all genres, but also to feature films. In addition, a new Swiss short film competition was inaugurated that same year, with a new prize: the Helveslip. In this archive, you will find the complete list of all the films ever selected and prized from 2015 to today.
