“Lick ＆ Listen,” our established format for open-minded audiences, returns with a new edition! Join us for a sensual and thought-provoking evening featuring alternative, ethical erotic films that challenge conventional heteronormative clichés – enhanced by live musical performance! Under the title “Bodily Desire Intensified”, this edition explores the diversity of sexual desire, highlighting the body, its sensitivities, and the wide range of fantasies and experiences that emerge through physical touch, experimentation, and imagination. At the heart of the program lie themes of positive sexuality, politics, gender, feminism, queerness, and consent. Through five carefully selected films, it boldly challenges mainstream porn conventions, offering an immersive and fluid cinematic experience of lust. CUMRAGS by Blade (Bunnydrone Studios; 2025, 16 min) CUMRAGS is a love story that follows Blade (they/them) and Nano (he/him), two best friends moving through Berlin’s darkrooms. The film captures how intimacy grows in places most people only see as dangerous, violent, or perverse. In the anonymous crush of bodies, in the middle of fucking, pissing, and bruising, Blade and Nano find a different kind of closeness – one that escapes the rules of traditional friendship and sex. RITUAL by Oil Productions (2020, 8 min) Sex is a ritual. A cosmic approach to human energy in an indefinite space-time. The lover lives in ecstasy, like a sun at the center of the universe. LEMON TASTE by Nicky Miller (2018, 9 min) A sexual fantasy and romantic tale where John becomes a voyeur to a cruising encounter, evolving into a fantastical erotic quintet. Like a juicy acid lemon, it awakens sexual desire. OUROBOROS by Vespéral (2018, 9 min) As the alchemical ouroboros serpent eating its own tail, the integration and assimilation of the opposites, the beginning and the end, an eternal circle of pleasure. Three persons of different genders, a triangular reciprocality of sexual push a
