<![CDATA[             The Sexy International Paris Film Festival (SIPFF) - Blog]]>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:50:26 +0200Weebly<![CDATA[French premiere of German Feature film"Bedways" by RP Kahl at Sexy Paris Film Festival 2011]]>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:23:06 +0200http://www.sexyfilmfestparis.fr/1/post/2011/09/french-premiere-of-german-feature-filmbedways-by-rp-kahl-at-sexy-paris-film-festival-2011.htmlThe Sexy International Paris Film Festival is proud to announce it will premiere for the first time in France the Berlinale International Film Festival's German Perspective 2010 Closing night Film "Bedways" by RP Kahl. The Film will premiere at Le Nouveau Cinema, Paris. Saturday 15 October. Mark it in your diaries.


Selected Reviews BERLINALE

"The steamy ‘Bedways’ has generated loud buzz at the Berlinale.“
(VARIETY, February 17, 2010)


"Lana Cooper and Matthias Faust excel with their fearlessness and warmth in a film project which must have been
rather challenging… the amazing Miriam Mayet is completely convincing… for the audience, who can finally witness
in German cinema how erotic true intimacy and passion in a sex scene can be.“
(DER SCHNITT, February 2010)


“(That’s when) the film has already swept you away with its hard, rocky sound, on a journey through the night,
leading you close to the abyss, following the footsteps of Abel Ferrara and Klaus Lemke. If the ‘Perspektive
Deutsches Kino’ is a promise, then ‘Bedways’ is the fulfilment: A film that promises nothing and fulfils everything. It is
a solitaire in the programme of the ‘Berlinale-Perspektive’… subversive avantgarde .”
(BERLINER MORGENPOST,
February 14, 2010)


“The images which ‘Bedways’ finds are exciting, never sterile nor embarrassing. At one point there are only Nina and
Hans left in their respective video cubicles, watching each other on the monitor. Nina watches, touches herself,
directs Hans. Minutes later she takes her mobile: ‘Get over here.’ And he does. That’s the beginning, the actual one.“
(TAGESSPIEGEL, February 11, 2010)


"The Berlinale has its first scandalous film. ‘Bedways’ by RP Kahl… Love – without taboos.“
(BILD, February 19,
2010)


“One film deserves special attention: ‘Bedways’. A film that brings a third pillar of German cinema into position,
between the mainstream and the ‘Berliner Schule’ … close to genre. It reminds one of Oskar Roehler or Fatih Akin,
the solitaires of German Cinema.“
(DEUTSCHLANDFUNK, February 16, 2010)
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Synopsis

A dilapidated, practically empty apartment in the Berlin district of ‘Mitte’. This is where Nina and two young actors
named Hans and Marie have come together to leave behind the winter cold for a few days and do some screen tests
for a film. Nina is a searcher; she wants her film to make feelings visible and intends to portray love by showing real
sex. But the more blurred the borders between fiction and reality become, the less Nina seems inclined to make the
film at all. Hans, who knows Nina from a brief encounter a long time ago, senses that she is searching for something
else. Nonetheless, he and Marie both agree to go along with the play-acting. So far, each is convinced that they are
pulling the strings. But Nina’s strategies of seduction weave an ever-tightening web around her protagonists. Nina’s
credo that they should not play themselves or anyone else soon becomes a trap for Hans and Marie. No wonder that
it becomes almost impossible to decipher where the acting ends and reality begins. The further Nina sets off down a
path to an unknown destination, the more the actors shield themselves from each other and keep their feelings to
themselves. Their longing for the outside world is a palpable force, but each attempt to open up to each other ends
in an emotional blow below the belt. Without a script, communication becomes balancing act; coolness and distance
would seem to be the only adequate means of protection. In this world, failure can only lead to a bittersweet happy
ending.


Cast


Nina Miriam Mayet
Marie Lana Cooper
Hans Matthias Faust
and
Laura Tonke (Baader, Wintersleepers)
Arno Frisch (Funny Games
Film Festival screenings:

Berlinale – International Film Festival Berlin
(2010 – Closing Film „Perspective German Cinema“ – World Premiere)
Achtung Berlin Film Festival
(2010 – Competition „New Berlin Film Award“)
Moscow International Film Festival
(2010 – Opening Film Competition „Perspectives“ – International Premiere)
Ourense International Film Festival
(2010 – Section „In the limits of the permitted“ – Spanish premiere)
Raindance Film Festival
(2010 – Official Selection – UK premiere)
PornFilmFestival Berlin
(2010 – Feature Film Competition)
Clair-Obscur Filmfestival Basel
(2010 – Tribute RP Kahl – Swiss premiere)
Berlinale – International Film Festival Berlin
(2011 – Preselection German Film Prize)
Fantasporto – Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto
(2011 – Official Selection – Portugal premiere)
Filmschau Frankfurt
(2011 – Competition)
Sydney Underground Film Festival
(2011 – Competition)
]]><![CDATA[Selected short films -2011 Sexy Paris Film Festival || Sélections de courts metrages à Sexy Paris Film Festival 2011]]>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:58:03 +0200http://www.sexyfilmfestparis.fr/1/post/2011/09/selected-short-films-2011-sexy-paris-film-festival-slections-de-courts-metrages-sexy-paris-film-festival-2011.htmlSélection - Courts-mêtrages - 2011 Sexy International Paris Film Festival



Courts-mêtrages Internationaux


International Short Film competition
Spice It Up!  |  Feodor Chin  |  USA  |  3mn
Grandpa's Wet Dream  |  Chihiro Amemiya  |  Japan  |  16mn
Cold Star  |  Kal Stänike  |  Germany  |  7mn
The Dame Factory  |  Melanie Abramov  |  USA  |  7mn30
Sally & Clive  |  Alan Tang  |  UK  |  9mn
First Aid  |  Yardin Karmin  |  Israel  |  16mn
Happy Birthday Timmy  |  Daniel Butler  |  Ireland  |  2mn30
13 and 1/2  |  Haris Vafeiadis  |  Greece  |  21mn
Sugar (Suiker)  |  Jeroen Annokkee  |  Netherlands  |  8mn
BOOBatory  |  Leah Shore  |  USA  |  3mn
Implants  |  Pardis Parker  |  Canada  |  2mn
Flying Lotus  |  Ozgur Ozcan  |  Germany  |  2mn

Courts-mêtrages Francophone

Francophone Short Film Competition
Under Pleasure  |  Bhopal (Hadrien Bertuit)  |  France  |  2mn
Eau Forte (Aqua Forte)  |  Lucie Duchêne  |  France  |  17mn
Bikini Vertigo  |  Jordan Oudin  |  France  |  4mn
Birth 3: La Mort d'un Triptyque (Birth 3: The death of a Triptych) |  Antony Hickling  |  France  |  17mn
L'amour à Trois (Love for Three)  |  Chiara Malta  |  France  |  13mn
Septimana  |  Sylvain Cappelletto  |  France  |  4mn
L'été (Summer)  |  LM Formentin  |  France  |  18mn
La Perfectioniste  |  Alex Fortier Guathier  |  Quebec  |  6mn
Suivez la Flêche (Follow the Arrow) |  Marc Saez  |  France  |  12mn
The Goody Box  |  Julien Deparis  |  France  |  2mn
]]><![CDATA[It ain’t “sexy” if it ain’t TRULY “sexy”]]>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:06:39 +0200http://www.sexyfilmfestparis.fr/1/post/2011/08/it-aint-sexy-if-it-aint-truly-sexy.htmlBy Bill Mousoulis

Last year, Jason’s (Turley, SIFF Aust)  programming raised eyebrows (not cocks) when he selected several “relationship study” films for the Paris Sexy Film Festival. “Where was the sex?”, people cried.

What is “sexy”? Maybe “normal” sexy (fashion models, revealing clothes, a sensual swagger, and actual depictions of sex, pornography or not) just, really, in the end, AIN’T that sexy.

So if I say “I heart you”, is THAT sexy? Yes, if it is an active declaration. If a passive statement, i.e. a summation of my position towards you, then … it’s cuddling time, not fucking time.

I want you to turn MY SPIRIT on. I want you to make my spirit come. “Come” – “arrive”. My spirit is elsewhere, hidden, confused, shy. Only you can make it appear.

But do you know how? Do you know how to connect with me at that deepest level? Have you got the sass for THAT?

Or do you only have the sass for twinkling your eyes and unhitching your skirt? So you know how to suck real good, but do you know how to really satifsy me … did anyone teach you that?

You can have your “quickies”. I want a long, slow, soft one … because I want to come, I want to truly come … come with me? ]]><![CDATA[Where's the money....shot?]]>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:00:00 +0200http://www.sexyfilmfestparis.fr/1/post/2011/04/wheres-the-moneyshot.htmlRecently I was in conversation with a friend of mine about the Sexy International Film Festival.This friend, an intellectual and cinephile in the true sense of the word, took me by surprise when he expressed his incomprehension of the festival’s theme. “I just don’t see what the point of a film festival devoted to ‘sexy’ is when people can download as much pornography as they want for free” he told me. As far as I was concerned, he answered his own question: if sexy has become synonymous with pornography, then that clearly reflects the urgency of having a film festival dedicated to it’s exploration as a concept.

 
Using the word ‘sexy’ as opposed to ‘eroticism’ seems to be a deliberate decision by the festival organisers. By using ‘sexy’ they attempt to re-appropriate the word out of the hands of advertisers and marketeers who have (especially in the last few decades) always sought to align notions of sexiness with consumerism. This is where modern pornography comes in. Sexy, according to the standards porn and advertising set (there’s no denying how mainstream fashion and beauty in the last 5 years have been strongly influenced by the aesthetics of porn) equates that women have to spend money bleaching their hair and putting in extensions, fake nails, breast implants etc. Without this financial dispension, you aren’t conforming to what apparently constitutes sexy these days. In pornography, ‘sexy’ is homogeneous. Female porn stars resemble one another eerily, like alien robots whose sole function is to fake pleasure. There is no sensuality or eroticism and sadly we seem to be falling for it.

 
For me sexiness in the cinema has always been about well executed anticipation and the presence of crackling chemistry between actors (Bogart and Bacall in Key Largo for example). Watching a sex act onscreen (either simulated or unsimulated) is more often than not incredibly dull and terribly unerotic. Films which avoid this route altogether are usually far more provocative and effective. Meanwhile, as porn becomes more and more embedded into mainstream culture, we seem to have forgotten entirely how diverse sexuality can be (again as a result of porn aesthetics) and to that end, that sexiness in cinema doesn’t have to necessarily mean onscreen sex. I’m optimistic about the potential of the Sexy International Film Festival which as a general theme has unlimited possibilities. Certainly it will be a festival to remind us that the true meaning of sexiness in the cinema has really has nothing to do with fake breasts and the money shot.

By Darcy Harrington
(Not her real name)
 ]]><![CDATA[Winners for the 2010 Sexy International PARIS Film Festival ]]>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0200http://www.sexyfilmfestparis.fr/1/post/2010/07/winners-for-the-2010-sexy-international-paris-film-festival.html

We are proud to announce the winners of this years festival. Although everybody is a winner (all the films were excellent in quality, otherwise we wouldn't have screened them) our esteemed and talented jury made up of Jury President Marc Duret, Jury members Sally Hussey, Pascal Toutain, Sami Zitouni and Dimitra Kontou had the difficult task of choosing standouts in each of the categories.


So:


The Best international Short Film:
Something to Learn - Maria Eugenia Arteaga


Best Francophone Short Film:
Lost Paradise - Oded Binnun


Jury Prize:
Push Bike  - Mairi Cameron


Audience Prize:
Memoires of a Disturbed Daughter - Keren Marciano


Jury Special Mention: 
Hymen - Cédric Provost


Well done to the jury and congratulations to the filmmakers.


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Roulement de tambour... Voici les lauréats pour l'édition 2010.




Meilleur film international: Something to learn de Maria Eugenia Arteaga

Meilleur film francophone: Paradis perdus de Oded Binnun

Prix du jury: Push bike de Mairi Cameron

Prix du public: Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée de Keren Marciano et 

Mention Speciale - Hymen de Cédric Provost.

]]><![CDATA[This isn't hardcore]]>Wed, 05 May 2010 19:28:52 +0200http://www.sexyfilmfestparis.fr/1/post/2010/05/this-isnt-hardcore.html 01 April 2010 | 00:00 - By Simon Foster
An Australian Filmmaker is taking his Sexy International Film Festival franchise abroad, to sell sexiness to the French.


With a head office based in the nondescript Victorian suburb of Noble Park and a professional history as an awarded but largely unknown independent film director, Australian Jason Turley does not immediately strike you as the man to bring ‘the sexy’ back to the cinemas of Paris.
But that is exactly Turley's aim and, with French-based festival programmer Natalie Vella, he's finalising the line-up for the 2010 Paris edition of his Sexy International Film Festival (SIFF) movement, which will launch in June in cinemas around the French capital.

The launch will bring the concept full circle for the RMIT-trained filmmaker, who was inspired by thoughts of romance and seduction during a proverbial rites-of-pasage holiday on the Continent. “The concept was conceived on a multi-city trip to Europe in 2007,” recalls Turley. “I noticed how many genre festivals were around and thought it would be great to create (an event) which focuses on the films I enjoy watching at festivals; films which explore love, relationships and sexuality”.

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Reproduced from sbs.com.au
]]><![CDATA[Donate some love - Fundraising campaign for our festival]]>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:37:17 +0200http://www.sexyfilmfestparis.fr/1/post/2010/04/donate-some-love-fundraising-campaign-for-our-festival.htmlAbout our fundraising campaign

The Sexy International Paris Film Festival is a  non profit French association (Loi 1901).

Jason Turley created the first festival in Melbourne, Australia in 2007 with the first Sexy International Film Festival premiering in Melbourne in 2008. A tour followed of London, Paris, San Fransisco and New York with a showcase of the best films from Melbourne. In 2009 the French version of the festival was established to focus on primarily Francophone content as well as devoting sessions to internationally panoramas. Despite the many film festivals around the world, and believe me, there are thousands, few focus on these themes in one festival - Sex, Sexuality, Love and relationships, and in particular France, the sexiest country on the planet, which is why we believe this festival is perfect for Paris.
We will bring together cinema, performance and music for four days of screenings, music, and performance all exploring Sexy.


JUNE 24 - 27 2010
LE GRAND ACTION CINEMA
5, rue des Ecoles, PARIS 75005

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In Oct of 2008, the first SIFF-Paris took place at Cinema L'Archipel. It was small but it proved that regardless of its size, people were interested. So we are invigorated the idea and in 2009 re-invented the festival with our goal - to a have world class programme of films that entertain, SIPFF 2010  is coming in the last week of June and we need your help. From bookings, to transportation, to marketing and promotions, equipment and venue rentals, hotels and hospitality, the costs associated with producing the festival are huge. With corporate sponsors not willing to put their money in, (especially for a second year event), and government cultural funds not available for us, we need every kind of support to make this the best festival for this year, and for the future.

Our program for 2010 is huge with more than 50 films in our programme. Along with our Francophone and International shorts programme we are also hosting retrospectives including a panorama of Australian short films, and a programme of Francophone Women in Cinema curated by Pippa Rimmer. On top of that we have French premieres, live music performances and soirees all themed to something sexy, which is sure to entice all.   This is an ambitious project, and with your help, we can make it happen and keep it happening every year with even more wonderfully high quality sexy films and live performances.

EVEN THE SMALLEST DONATION HELPS!! As this project's term extends beyond the Festival end date, we will be modifying our awards program after the Festival.

http://www.sexyfilmfestparis.com

Keep checking our website regularly to check for updates.

Project location: Paris, France
]]><![CDATA[Sexy, who does it belong to?]]>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:53:49 +0200http://www.sexyfilmfestparis.fr/1/post/2010/02/sexy-who-does-it-belong-to.htmlBy Victoria Deterding

Sexy is to me - without a doubt - nearly synonymous with the word acceptance.  To be sexy is to accept our own inherent beauty, despite whatever “flaws” might also be apparent.  This is because, in order for a person to be sexy, he or she must feel beautiful.  We are all worthy of appreciating what is naturally ours; both the physical and the intangible.  Sexy, sexy people choose to express that inner and outer loveliness to themselves and others.  It is clear to most people that sexy is an attitude, a mindset.  

Example:Woman X has a voluptuous body and hypnotizing green eyes.  This same woman X also happens to have a high-pitched wheel-of-fortune style guffaw that slips out every time she sees or hears something funny.  Which is often. Is this woman sexy??  If she loves every bit of herself, including the potentially awkward, and revels in the unique way she expresses her joy, then YES.   Maybe her laugh even charms to the men she dates.  I bet her boyfriends like tickling her!

We are all very unique individuals, but the principle of sexy expands to include everyone.   To be sexy is to accept and value the beauty that blooms out from others.  There isn’t a person on this earth who isn’t sexy.  There are as many different flavors of sexy as there are…well, individuals – and we all swirl together in our interactions with each other to form a steamy lovely sweet committed divorced sultry young male juicy skintight casual female middle aged devilish spicy nude elderly kinky blend.  And more! What a hot mess.

You see, it is a choice to express to express sexy – in each moment of life, in each piece of artwork, in each second of a steamy scene in a film.  Sexy is often portrayed in film within the context of a relationship, or within the realm of men searching for and admiring pretty women.   Sometimes, and stereotypically, these men and the women they chase are young, hot, and flashy. 

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La Fille coupée en deux (2007)
A great example of sexy is the youthful two-thirds of a love triangle that lusted after each other onscreen in Claude Chabrol’s La Fille coupée en deux (pictured left).  While Capucine remains married to her much older sugar daddy and performs some sexy role playing to please him, she also gets entangled with a flamboyantly rich and hair-gelled heir.  It is a young, dramatic, and adulterous sexy that plays on naïveté and indolence.
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City of Angels (1998)
A less rapid and more subtle kind of sexy caught my interest back in the day in the relationship between Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage’s characters City of Angels.  Seth, an angel, decides to to “fall” and become human after falling in love with Dr. Maggie.  After falling, Seth experiences each human activity through his new 5 senses, including a firelit night of ecstasy.  With fresh human senses, even the most mundane task is intense and absorbing – his transformation is the film’s testament to the sensual human form.  Their gentle relationship evolves throughout the film, exploring sexy within the context of ethereal, carnal, and loving ties. here to edit.
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Je vous salue, Marie (1985)
 And I love, love when sexy motifs are used to provoke in a film.  One of my favorite Godard movies is Je vous salue, Marie – a modern and blasphemous retelling of the Virgin Mary’s birth of Jesus.   Appalling to Catholics everywhere, the film documents the pregnancy of Mary in a highly sensual manner with several nude scenes, and closes the film with Mary hanging her head out of the car calling out to Jesus, a cigarette dangling in her fingers and blood red lips – a real woman with passions and vices of her own.  Sexy, smoking and provocative.  edit.
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Mamma Mia! (2008)
Lastly, sexy includes celebrating what is naturally ours – our mind, body, humor – at every age.  I cannot be the only one who thinks Meryl Streep is amazing and becomes more beautiful year!  As an absolutely radiant Donna Sheridan in Mamma Mia, Streep frolicks around with her best girlfriends and carries herself with the knowing confidence that comes from experience.  Her and her girls woman are mature, hot and loving it.  Very sexy. 
Sexy: belongs to everyone, but especially those who own it!

Victoria is part of the Sexy International Film Festival team 2010
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]]><![CDATA[What is Sexy?]]>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:48:01 +0200http://www.sexyfilmfestparis.fr/1/post/2010/01/what-is-sexy.htmlBy Kathleen Dooley

There are few adjectives as difficult to define as this one. Now used to describe everything from cars to stationary, it seems to have something to do with a level of excitement or attractiveness which a thing or person emits. A TV commercial for some sort of self help product in Oz recently asked me, ‘Are you sex confident?’ I’m not really sure what that means but all I can say is that it’s definitely a subjective experience. One girl’s Brad Pitt is another’s Patrick Stewart. I certainly didn’t think ‘Sexy Beast’ was particularly sexy, but someone must have. 
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For me personally it’s a mix of attractiveness and mystery, where something greater overtakes notions of the essential and the other. Sexy Films? I would keep this concept separate from that of ‘sex films,’ as some of the most memorable film moments that come to mind are those that avoided physical contact all together. In terms of French films I’m thinking of Daniel Auteuil throwing knifes at an excited Vanessa Paradis in ‘La Fille sur le Pont.’  Sure, the woman is playing the passive role once again, but it’s certainly more interesting than the scene involving her character Adele shagging a random in a phone box earlier in the film.
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Similarly the electricity is flying when hardened criminal Paul (Vincent Cassel) catches an accidental glimpse down the shirt of his deaf boss Carla (Emmanuelle Devos) in ‘Sur mes Lévres.’ Tension builds to a climax as we wait to see the outcome of these two opposites who are thrown together, each learning something new from the other.
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As a straight woman, I must say that it’s not just about heterosexual romances either. There is something absolutely compelling about the journey of the dying gay protagonist Romain, in François Ozon’s ‘Le temps qui reste.’ Having left behind his sexy grandmother (Jeanne Moreau) with the promise that they will both find death soon, Romain goes forth into a threesome, doing his bit to help impregnate a sterile young couple. Maybe it’s his distance from the other characters or his closeness to dying that makes this as memorable as it is. 

So thumbs down to gratuitous nudity, sexual violence and soft porn. Bring on the meeting of minds and bodies by way of compelling narratives and characters. Others many disagree but that’s my 2 cents worth.  

Kath Dooley is an award winnning Australian filmmaker who has created a range of shorts, music videos and educational works. Also currently undertaking a Postgraduate degree, her Masters thesis examines idea of identity and desire in the work of contemporary French directors.
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]]><![CDATA[2009 SEXY AWARD WINNERS - Melbourne]]>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:54:10 +0200http://www.sexyfilmfestparis.fr/1/post/2009/11/2009-sexy-award-winners-melbourne.html2009 SEXY AWARD WINNERS
proudly sponsored by myprintedgoodies.com.au

by Jason Turley

 

Best Australian Short Film

The Body Watchers

(Dir: Adam Spellicy)

 

Best International Short Film

Suspect

(Dir: Felix Hassenfratz)

 

Best Male Actor

Peter Flaherty

(Another Shot)

 

Best Female Actor

Anne Weinknecht

(Suspect)

 

Best Director

Vincent Vesco

(La Tangent)

 

Best Australian Feature Film

Bad Habits

(Dir: Dominic Deacom)

 

Best International Feature Film

Porn Star?

(Dir: John Sullivan)

 

Best Cinematography

Antoine Monod

(La Tangent)

 

Encouragement Award

Corey Williams

(Can’t Complain)

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