♥ WE ACCEPT ONLY FEMINIST & QUEER SHORT FILMS ♥ WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON FEMINIST QUEER PORN & EROTIC FILMS ♥

The Red Dawns collective invites you to join us at, our and yours, 26th International Feminist and Queer Festival!

Traditionally the festival's diverse feminist & queer program consists of concerts, performances, exhibitions, discussions and film screenings all produced by or for female/queer/FLINTA+/gay and bisexual persons. This year, as always, we will treat our audience with programs of short DIY feminist and queer films, including feminist queer porn & erotic films.

♥ QUEER FEMINIST PORN & EROTIC FILM PROGRAM ♥

We are interested in short films that present alternatives to mainstream pornography as a place where marginalized groups who are usually excluded from dominant representation find a powerful place of expression and re-appropriation. The submitted films should stimulate our brain, make us think and raise questions on society and on how we understand sexuality, desire, gender and lust.

We invite all the gorgeous film-video-pleasure-fun-excitement makers to submit your short queer feminist porn and erotic films to be screened in Ljubljana in March 2025.

♥ QUEER FEMINIST SHORT FILM PROGRAM ♥

With this film program we aim to probe the boundaries of our representations, echoing not only our struggles but also our moments of happiness, our fears, and the profound connections we share in our communities. We are open to feminist and queer short films of any genre made by and/or for the representatives of the LGBTQI+ community.

The Red Dawns International Feminist and Queer Festival wants to create a safer space to collectively discuss and reflect on pornography, sexuality and sexual identity from feminist and queer perspectives. We warmly embrace all genres and on-screen media that are brimming with visions, reflections, community, and imagination.

Join us in reshaping the narrative and reclaiming our future. Submit your film today and be part of a movement that embraces diversity, challenges oppression, and champions the power of storytelling.

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March the 8th is our holiday and we rightfully take our space, all queer feminists and queer people, and present our artistic, intellectual, creative and other underestimated, unexposed or invisible, but important work. It is time for our voices to be heard both on the Internet and in the streets, and for our laughter to echo, our smiles to shine, and our hugs to be woven.

All of us who are different, neglected, marginalized and invisible, we stay here! We work, create, care for the community and cultivate rebellion, and take time for ourselves as well. Joy is also a tool for the revolt against capitalism and repression!

Together with you, we want to celebrate tenderness, desire, openness, subversion, kinship - you name it!

AUDIENCE AWARD
* a collection of DIY festival's merch and a laurel

✖️ We do not accept mainstream cis straight porn or erotic films or films representing violence and abuse

✖️ We do not tolerate sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, Islamophobic, or any other hateful and humiliating representation & narrative ✖️

✖️ We do not pay any screening fees to the filmmakers ✖️

♥ We welcome submissions that are ethical, critical, sexy, playful, provocative, extravagant and subversive.

♥ ♥ ♥ Please send us ONLY feminist and queer short films ♥ ♥ ♥ We especially welcome works that break the established norms of gender & sexuality representation.

♥ We accept films up to 20 minutes ♥

♥ We accept any work released after January 2020 for the category "QUEER FEMINIST PORN AND EROTIC FILMS" and any work released after January 2022 for the category "QUEER FEMINIST SHORT FILMS".

♥ We only accept films that speak about female/nonbinary/trans*/intersex/queer/LGBAP+ lived experiences, gender and sexuality, understanding of pleasure, sex work, sex activism, disability etc. and present feminist/queer/FLINTA+ fantasies, desires and practices.

♥ We accept short films (up to 20 minutes) of any genre: fiction, documentary, experimental, animation, music video, video art etc.

♥ The format required is MP4 HD 1920X1080.

♥ We accept any work released after January 2022 in both categories.

♥ We request that English-language subtitles accompany every application (also if the film is in English!). If your film is selected, you are obliged to send us English subtitles in the .srt file before the screening.

♥ Participants must be aged 18 and above.

♥ All submissions are subject to the agreement(s) between the filmmaker/producer and the performers. The Red Dawns Festival holds no responsibility or rights to the content and will not be liable for any issues that may occur due to, or in part, to the submissions.

♥ If selected, all commercial/private property including all trademark/copyrighted materials shown or recorded on the project is the responsibility of the filmmaker.

♥ The Festival has the right to screen selected films during the festival and at the accompanying events in 2025-2026 without paying any screening fees. By submitting your film to the Festival you agree with this term.

♥ Submitting your movie, you authorize the Red Dawns (KUD Mreža) to use, distribute and share the film poster, trailer, synopsis and movie stills on our social media and site as well as our partner's media outlets, and to use them for any promotional purposes which the Festival deems appropriate.

♥ Payment of the non-refundable entry fee must accompany the submission.

♥ All fees are non-refundable.

♥♥♥ WAIVER POLICY: We have an entry fee of 3/5/7 euros that helps us to keep the festival existing and independent. Nevertheless, especially being aware of the moment we all are facing, we can provide Waiver codes for films produced outside of the Global North.

♥ Contact us at red.dawns.femqueerporn@gmail.com ♥

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  • It was an honour to be included in this year's official selection at Red Dawns, and I look forward to participating again in the future. Thank you!

    April 2023
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    Response from festival:

    Dear Alex, thank you so much for being part of the Festival! Hope to see your new work this year.

  • Amina Maher

    An amazing experience. Thanks for having us.

    April 2023
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    Response from festival:

    Dear Amina, we are truly honoured to screen your work at our festival!

  • Sakura Ardila Ortiz

    The organizers were very nice to me. I told them that this would be the world premiere of my film so they made an specific post about it on facebook. I also asked them for feedback after the festival was over and they told me what the public thought of my film.

    March 2023
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    Response from festival:

    Dear Sakura, thank you so much for being a part of our festival! We were extremely happy to present your film to the audience in Ljubljana.