Sex/Scene @ 2026 BLUSH San Francisco PornFilmFestival

"If you think you know porn, think again!"

From fantastical roleplaying to representation that matters, these short films reflect the wide range of what sex looks like on camera.

Presented in-person at the Roxie Theater! Followed by a post-screening filmmaker talk with artists Polly Bombshell and Mx Mayhem Mai, and Polly Eurethane, moderated by festival director Shine Louise Houston. Doors open at 8:30 PM, 30 minutes before the show. Join us after the screening at MOTHER BAR for the festival After/Party!

Films included:

CURA

Director: Gia Green (Spain)

Runtime: 8:28

Reading from the diary of a whore – her very own – in collaboration with porn friends Laura Ropes, María Riot, and Sylvan becomes an intimate confession, reflecting on loneliness, the human need for love (whores included), and how stigma defines how sex workers are seen, loved, and valued beyond their labour, until it seeps into their closest and intimate relationships. Offering care, tenderness, and chosen kinship between sex workers as a shared survival practice, the film does so with an all-star cast performing what they know best: a foursome on camera.

Succubi

Director: Luca Pellicoro (United States)

Runtime: 3:04

Two demonic figures seduce and devour a helpless soul in their sleep

FOCUS

Director: Shine Louise Houston (United States)

Runtime: 10:00

“Focus on what I want. Not what you want.” Sadie Lune and Lilith Luxe star in a surreal exploration of trust and desire. Dominant Sadie demands Lilith’s attention, with delicate caresses punctuated by firm slaps, a skilled fist, and creative illumination culminating in a thunderous crescendo.

The Uptown

Director: Polly Bombshell / Vivi Stone Pictures (Netherlands)

Runtime: 6:46

Vivi puts a personal ad in a fetish mag, looking for adventure in San Francisco. She and Mx. Mayhem arrange a hot anonymous encounter, but in a town this small, they are destined to awkwardly run into each other at the local queer bar.

Goonweed

Director: Polaroids_Wow (United States)

Runtime: 4:17

When two bros hotbox a new strain of cannabis called goonweed, they find themselves descending into a horny hysteria of ass-worship.

Metamorphosis

Director: Marizo Siller, Daviel Shy (United States)

Runtime: 3:55

A re-imagining of Ovid's metamorphosis trope, filmed in Athens, Greece. Instead of Daphne transforming into a tree to escape violence, her desire is foregrounded. Her pleasure and connection to the tree and its fruit, along with alchemical help from the personified wind and rain, transform her into a tree, bearing fruit that entices a new person, implying the cycle's restart.

Persephone Returns

Director: Vespéral (Canada)

Runtime: 3:54

Every year, Persephone, Goddess of Spring, comes back to the Underworld to reunite for the winter with her lover Hades, in order to celebrate the cycle of life and death and desire.

Shattered

Director: Salty Cheri (Germany)

Runtime: 5:13

How many queers do you need to change a lightbulb? A kinky short film about intimacy and safe spaces.

Look@Me

Director: Eva Calòr (Italy)

Runtime: 5:42

Two men meet in a club bathroom and, after a few glances, end up having sex. Cruising is a dynamic well known and widely explored in the gay world, but here it takes on a particular meaning, with a protagonist who falls outside common stereotypes. Can we question the way we look?

Good Boy Doll

Director: Jamal Phoenix, Sir Malice (United States)

Runtime: 8:45

Sir Malice receives his long-awaited kinky present: The Good Boy Doll. Jamal Phoenix is a brave pain-doll, ripped, obedient and ready to receive the carefully administrated sadistic treatments of his Sir. It reeks of leather & latex, sweat & tears… pure BDSM.

Y2KAGE

Director: Jazzy Boho

Runtime: 7:52

What is a virtual pet in an age of mass surveillance? Get jacked out of the Y2KAGE in Jazzy Boho's Erotic Hauntology, a dazzling genre-bending allegory for sexual autonomy in America’s post-9/11 security state—an unforgettable, neon-dripping fever dream of cybersex, Tamagotchis, Bush-era surveillance, and the ghosts of a millennium that never arrived.

WET STREAMING III - fuck my ficus

Director: Aaron Scherer, Eva Sommer, Daniela Zahlner (Austria)

Runtime: 5:20

Masturbation with YouTube Nature Porn: A Tornado over Vienna, the Peruvian rain forest and the Victoria Falls are the Porn Stars we're using to get our juices flowing and bring the outdoors to our home. In a critical and humorous way, approaches the concept of Ecosexuality, Nature Fetish and Activism as outlined by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens in their Manifesto. We imagine the earth as lover and Nature as our Porn Star.

I wish I could make of you... (Quisiera hacer de ti...)

Director: Jen Córdova (Mexico)

Runtime: 10:18

Sharing an ice cream can open the floodgates of fantasy. Two young people want to murder words, dance until they eat the last drop.