Reel/Sex @ 2026 BLUSH San Francisco PornFilmFestival

"Balancing insightful documentaries and sexy fun."

Beautiful, candid, and uncensored, these short adult documentary films offer new perspectives on sexuality.

Presented in-person at the Little Roxie! Followed by a post-screening filmmaker talk moderated by festival director Shine Louise Houston. Doors open at 5:30 PM, 30 minutes before the show.

Films included:

Trade Center

Director: Adam Baran (United States)

Runtime: 8:36

The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized, commerce-driven landscape that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus. A non-explicit short film by Adam Baran.

In The Name Of Love

Director: Bonaventure Tain (Malaysia)

Runtime: 11:40

Gay couple Julian and Randall navigate life in the months after the repeal of Section 377 in a post-colonial country whose name is withheld for political reasons. The film captures a quiet yet profound moment of transition, as a law that once criminalized their love is lifted and they begin to rethink what it means to live, love, and be seen. Set against a society where legal change does not always bring social acceptance, the film is a tender portrait of two men negotiating identity, freedom, and the courage to exist without concealment.

Sex Assistant

Director: Andrés González Majul (Venezuela)

Runtime: 21:04

Daniela and Andres are a young couple with physical disabilities from Caracas, Venezuela during the peak of its violent, socio-economic crisis. In their need to express their desire with each other, they search for support from sex workers, doctors, physical therapists, and acquaintances.

Strawberry & Lemon (Frutilla y Limon)

Director: Leilux Skandalo (Argentina)

Runtime: 6:24

"Strawberry & Lemon" follows a gender-fluid person in Buenos Aires who confronts an oppressive society, exploring pleasure and visibility in a journey between reality and fantasy.

Eavesdropping on Jason Sato’s Brothers

Director: Nguyen Tan Hoang (United States)

Runtime: 5:53

Hailed as the first anti-war gay porn film, Brothers (dir. Jason Sato, nom-de-porn of Japanese American video artist Norman Yonemoto) constitutes a striking experiment in early gay porn, one in which sex is intimately linked to homosexual liberation and Third World struggles. A closer look at the 1973 feature reminds us of the radical potentialities of connecting sexual and social revolutions. Listening closely to Sato’s soundtrack, its voice-over narration and popular music, we hear how the film grounds sexual fantasy squarely within social-political context.

Sadie's Baby

Director: Ian McClellan (United States)

Runtime: 26:16

Sadie Lune is a queer performance artist and sex worker who takes a unique, artistic and collaborative approach to having a baby.