The Sexy International Paris Film Festival (SIPFF)
French premiere of German Feature film"Bedways" by RP Kahl at Sexy Paris Film Festival 2011 13/09/2011
The 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)  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) Add Comment Sélection - Courts-mêtrages - 2011 Sexy International Paris Film Festival
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 It ain’t “sexy” if it ain’t TRULY “sexy” 29/08/2011
By 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? Where's the money....shot? 22/04/2011
Recently 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) 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. This isn't hardcore 05/05/2010
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”. Click here to read the rest of the article Reproduced from sbs.com.au About 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 | SIPFF Blog Site
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