We have even more delectable Film news for your today! In addition to the sensuous shorts that will be playing at the SIFF Film Center, we are also very pleased to present a stirring silent film program. In the 2025 PEFF Silent Film Showcase, filmmakers across the globe present evocative and provocative visuals that are full of stories, culture, and lived experiences.
The 2025 PEFF Silent Film Showcase will be shown throughout the weekend at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival.
Private Dancer
Spain | Erika Lust
A woman looks into the window of her fantasies—there is a dancer, a beautiful woman in high heels, and a black leotard. Dreaming away, she finds herself sitting on that chair, feeling the dancer’s fishnet tights as they brush on her lap…The dancer’s movements are skilled and sensual — perhaps the sexiness of the lap dance will lead to something more?
Annihilation
United States | Chris Noon
Annihilation explores the inner friction between fantasy and reality. It tells the story of one man’s hunger for violent sex and his overwhelming craving to be consumed by this desire.
Anonymous Confession
Chile | Juliette Puch
My post-porn love confession. It’s a record of the creation of a plastic artwork: a mask as an objet d’art and as a metaphor for the impossibility of revealing to a beloved friend sensations trapped in a past sexual-affective experience.
Damage #3 – Salt Kerophobia
Italy | Gianpaolo Della Sala
Do you know what happens when you put a grain of salt on your tongue? The taste buds sizzle, get excited and it slowly, silently, dissolves.
La Petite Mort
Italy | Tommaso Bolongaro and Alberto Braga
With this short film, we aim to re-immerse ourselves in this vision, challenge death, and rediscover, in one final memory, what we feel we are losing — ourselves. And the Love we come from. And finally, we want to pose a question, a provocation.
What will you do when the darkness comes? Will you run away, like the bodies around the bed, or will you stay there until the end, without fear?
Caprice en cours
France | Lola Legal
After years of working as a chef while contemplating sex work as an escape from the mainstream capitalist career, Lola, 31, finally makes her debut as a Domina specialized in footfetish on Twitter.
Going through many ups and downs, she joins a woman/queer collective and starts journaling her experience through voice notes to friends, videos on her lo-fi handycam and turns it into a video diary.
Utopia
Mexico | Rubén Fabbri
Utopia is an exploration of the reformulation of the erotic body and the deconstruction of gay sex; It focuses on moments of homosexuality, directly and canonically dismantling the aesthetics imposed by gay porn.
It reformulates the body, the sexual act and eroticism in an audiovisual piece that seeks to generate a contemplative, intimate, ephemeral and volatile atmosphere, as an interpretation of pleasure.
Chair Moi
Canada | Axge
Louise Alba has chosen to live alone with Alpine. She must take care of her home as she takes care of her flesh. This care is a struggle passed down through generations. It is through ritual and sexuality that Louise engages in it; a struggle where belonging to oneself is a victory.
Accompanied by a letter she writes to herself, Louise embarks on a day of ritualistic and symbolic actions to help her body metabolize the transition from violence to belonging. Working and splitting wood, tending the fire, listening to the snow melt, immersing herself in her own being, loving her body, and reclaiming pleasure within it.
She and Her Good Vibrations
Singapore | Olivia Griselda and Sarah Cheok
After receiving a vibrator by mistake, a middle-aged, stressed-out woman gets hooked on solo pleasure sessions, but as her addiction sets in, she begins losing touch with her reality.
Harold Cabrera + Neff Bueno
Puerto Rico | José Vélez and José A Alameda
When tragedy leads to unexpected pleasure, desire transcends the physical.
Intimate Composition
Poland | Piotr Lewandowski
The piece was originally intended to be about mourning and loss, but has evolved into a celebration of intimacy. It’s a moving self-portrait that evolved as various variables emerged during the creative process. The cocoon in which the performers find themselves is a visual metaphor for sticking together and stopping in multi-level closeness.
Handsy
United States | Ryan Avery
One hand is introduced to an oily orgy of sorts. After all, hands-on lessons are usually the best. And often the most fun.
On Bonding
Canada | Vespéral
Experiments on ropes, connection and power dynamics.
Just One Touch
Lebanon | Melina Libar
A young woman in her mid-20s took a day off for some “me time”. She finds herself getting so full of desire and craves to be touched and loved. Her brain takes her on a rollercoaster ride as she’s conflicted between wanting a partner and hating how she gets very sexualized for her appearance.
SEHEN
Greece | The Skin Collective
SEHEN is an absurd, dystopian and dark perspective on social behaviours and agreements. Our conscience is burdened by the flash of our actions, the more or less unpredictable consequences and the distraction that comes with it. What do we really see? The bad feeling creeps into our bodies and
shatters us in our search for our place in the world.
Hot Fish
Israel | Yael Reisfeld
A hungry lion fish in the Red Sea accidentally swallows a fisherman’s porn- infested phone, turning it into a glamorous seduction mutation, allowing it to experience the complexity of human sexuality.
Object(s) of Desire
United Kingdom | Liberty Antonia Sadler
“The worship of fat pleasures…
You are the embodiment of lust & gluttony combined”
An intimate colour-drenched celebration of queer fat sensuality, ‘Object(s) of Desire’ is a three performer portrait & poem film featuring Smashlyn Monroe, Jade Williams & the film’s director Liberty Antonia Sadler.
Closeness
Germany | Sebastian Bergfeld, Birte Rüster, Diana Staub, and Aline Blum
“Closeness” is a short film about two people with disabilities who seek sexual assistance. The short film shows the encounters with the sex workers. We hear thoughts of the two protagonists on the topics of sexuality and self-determination.
The Pan Eros Film Festival will run concurrently at the SIFF Film Center in the Seattle Center during the 2025 Seattle Erotic Art Festival. A separate ticket is required for entry to the PEFF Short Film program. Screenings will be on Saturday and Sunday.