Author archive: toby
2022-01-01: Happy New Year!
We wish all our friends and fans a Happy New Year 2022! The CVOID crisis and the regulations for venues and event organizers still make reliable planning for another NACHTSCHATTEN festival this year rather complicated, so we don’t know if such an event will be possible this year. But we won’t give up, and as
2020-10-29: Nachtschatten 2020 – leider doch nicht :(
Da der zweite Corona-Lockdown nun leider Realität geworden ist und die Kinos dicht sind, fällt auch unser Nachtschatten-Festival ins Wasser. Schade um den bisherigen Aufwand und die Vorfreude (bei Organisatoren wie auch Publikum), aber wir lassen den Kopf nicht hängen und hoffen euch zumindest nächstes Jahr wieder ein schönes Festival-Programm bieten zu können. Bis dahin,
2020-09-05: Nachtschatten 2020 – Ja, Nein, Doch – Oh!
The pandemic situation is still uncertain and we had to cancel all our planned events and our main festival in June, which hit us pretty hard. We hope to bring the NACHTSCHATTEN festival back in full swing in June 2021. But as a small consolation, we have booked the Werkstattkino in Munich for three nights
2020-05-08: Corona :(
Unfortunately we are forced to postpone our festival in June due to COVID-19/corona crisis. New dates will be announced when they are available! Stay safe and healthy everyone! Leider sehen wir uns aufgrund der aktuellen Situation mit COVID-19/Corona gezwungen, unser NACHTSCHATTEN-Filmfestival im Juni abzusagen bzw. auf unbestimmte Zeit zu verschieben. Sobald ein neues Datum absehbar
2020-01-26: SPELLBOUND!
And even more great upcoming Nachtschatten events! On March 7th, 2020 we present in cooperation with McArthur&McArthur Studios a very special film screening: we show “SPELLBOUND”, a short film by Ulrike Kaffei, about Shibari, including a Q&A with the film maker. More infos on the dedicated event page.
2020-01-07: Events 2020!
Happy New Year! Es stehen schon einige Nachtschatten-Termine für 2020 fest! Das NACHTSCHATTEN BDSM/Fetisch-Film-Festival wird dieses Jahr wieder im Werkstattkino stattfinden, vom 19.-27. Juni 2020! Die nächsten NACHTSCHATTEN NIGHTS-Termine (in den McArthur & McArthur Studios Ltd.): – Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2020 – Donnerstag, 20. Februar 2020 – Mittwoch, 25. März 2020 – Donnerstag, 16. April
2019-09-02: Events!
Wir freuen uns auf eine ganze Reihe weitere Events unter dem Nachtschatten-Banner in den nächsten Monaten in München: – Do 12.09. Nachtschatten Nights – So 06.10. Munich Smut Slam – Do 10.10. Nachtschatten Special: Sexploitation-Vortrag + Film – Do 17.10. Nachtschatten Nights – So 03.11. Munich Smut Slam – Do 14.11. Nachtschatten Nights – Sa
2019-07-03: Aus und vorbei!
Wir haben überlebt! Die heißeste Woche des Jahres, nicht nur vom Wetter her. Danke an alle die dieses Jahr so zahlreich zu unserm Festival erschienen sind. Wir freuen uns hier die Gewinner des Nachtschatten BDSM/Fetisch Film Festivals 2019 bekannt geben zu können: – Best Feature Film 2019: “The Artist & The Pervert” by Beatrice Behn
2019-06-28: Endspurt!
Das Festival neigt sich dem Ende zu, aber über mangelnde Besucherzahlen können wir uns nicht beschweren. Selbst bei der Hitze waren wir an den meisten Tagen gut besucht bis hin zu komplett ausverkauft. Sehr toll! Wir starten mit den letzten Tagen ins Wochenende, volles Programm gibt es hier, es wird unbedingt empfohlen unter dem zugehörigen
2019-06-17: Festival Warmup am 18.6.!
Auch dieses Jahr starten wir die Festivalwoche mit einem Nachtschatten Nights-Warmup-Special-Event am Dienstag, den 18.6. in den McArthur & McArthur Studios Ltd. (Schwanthaler Str. 184). Ein gemütliches Beisammensein bei dem es einige Hintergründe zum Nachtschatten-Festival zu erfahren gibt, ebenso einen Ausblick auf die Neuigkeiten dieses Jahr. Und wir dachten uns, es wäre auch mal ganz
The Resurrection
“The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.” ― Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
2019-06-05: Weppy makes you happy!
WEPPY, Hersteller von hochwertigen Sextoys wie edlen Holzdildos, Lederpeitschen und schicken Accessoires, unterstützt uns nicht nur mit der Festival-Promotion, sie werden am ersten Festivalwochenende auch noch selbst mit einem eigenen Stand im Werkstattkino vertreten sein um euch ihre Produkte zeigen. Und es kommt noch besser: die ganze Festivalwoche über habt ihr die Gelegenheit bei einem
How to cock a cake
Rouse Renoir & Glü Wür cook together a moist chocolate cake with their full body use. Fudgy and fluffy. So tasty, that you have to try it.
2019-06-03: BLING!
BLING BLING! Für die Hardcore-NACHTSCHATTEN-Fans, die treuen Stammgäste, die coolen Kino-Übernachter, die wahren Filmfanatiker, die ganz Hartgesottenen, hier ist die nächste Neuigkeit dieses Jahr: Das goldene NACHTSCHATTEN VIP-Ticket! Limitiert auf 10 Stück! Für 60 Euro dürfen Inhaber dieses Tickets in sämtliche 22 NACHTSCHATTEN 2019-Vorführungen im Werkstattkino. Außerdem gibt es für sie die Möglichkeit, bevorzugte Sitze
Tribute
“Tribute” re-imagines the idea of a lesbian cruising ground in London, in direct response to Annette Kennerley’s “Sex Lies Religion” (1993)
No Democracy Here
A short film that deals with the topic of political domination. In it, Liad, a lefty human rights defender dominatrix re-educates her right-wing-leaning obedient submissive slaves to follow upstanding leftist ethos and morals like freedom of movement, economical justice, direct democracy, and human rights by using domination practices such as humiliation, doggy-training, coercion, and administration of pain.
Thank You Come Again
This sex-positive web series follows uptight grad student Riley in her new job at The Pleasure Chest, where a colorful, queer team of misfits introduces her to the irreverent world of the sex toy industry.
Mercy Mistress
“MERCY MISTRESS” is a web series based on the memoirs of Yin Q, a Chinese-American Dominatrix in New York City.
Babines
On a summer afternoon, a woman caresses herself, alone in her bed. Somewhere between thrilling journey and poetic trance, Babines is an ode to pleasure.
Single Room Apartment
Young and lonely finger spends some time in the single room apartment.
The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife
A lonely fisherman’s wife encounters the lover of her dreams.
Play Time
Dancing dildos!
1st Day & Next Minute
An explicit punk-rush adventure into a gender fluid person zone of desires where lust & responsibility is constantly dividing & demanding needs.
Sexorama
An abstract film. Seriously. Blame your own repressed sexuality for anything else you might see.
In The Dark
An erotic odyssey from queer Russian music collective SADO OPERA.
Sweet Sweet Kink
We will follow four members of the Austin Kink/BDSM community reminiscing on the moments of exciting ‘firsts’, the long journey of healing, and beginnings of lifelong relationships – emotions and stories audience members, vanilla or kinky, can relate to.
FJER
The story of FJER is a poetic and freaky urban fantasy about emancipation and discovery of own sexuality.
Roses in the Night
A story of a young girl in ancient Greece between ripening and mystery of first love. Based upon “Les Chansons de Bilitis” by Pierre Louys (1875-1920).
Lavo
An short and wonderfully weird animation about sex.
XX
An animated film based on and inspired by ethical porn.
The Bright Light Social Hour – Missing Something
The official music video for “Missing Something” by The Bright Light Social Hour
Reed’s Fetish Tips
Experimental informational film for the oldest fetish fashion company in UK (Honour Clothing) featuring sex educator Reed Amber personal tips for a perfect fetish savvy life.
Origin Of Hunger
A film that explores the Sex-Industrial Complex. The work switches the role of domination and provides visuals of control by a woman over a man.
Blastogenese II
“Blastogenese II” fantasizes evolution between science fiction images out from the 1950s and images of queer and bizzare experimental films.
Gasp
A couple experiment with a vacuum sealed bag to achieve the ultimate sexual pleasure.
This Love Is On Fire
“This Love is on Fire” is a music video directed by Cassils in collaboration with queer rock band You Can Call Me Sir.
Lovesick
An abstract analysis of idealization, objectification, and the Other; a dark fantasy peering into how we view and explore the complex darkness of human sexuality.
X
“X” takes us to a post-apocalyptical world inhabited by cyborgs. They create their post-human society based on countersexual practices: what we know as a experience of collapsed gender and sexuality.
Morsures
A close and intimate portrait surrounding the act of biting and being bitten, featuring queer and trans people in various states of consensual vulnerability.
Ciao Downtown
A racy and tasty, spicy and saucy guide to the art of living and will help you eat, be, and do life right!
Jerk Chicken
A sexy, romantic and fantastic way of making Jerk chicken.
Ostara
The story of a woman’s exploration of her sexual fantasies through cosplaying the traditional folkloric figure and symbol of Easter. This kinky fetish film guarantees to tantalize, dares to trigger, and promises you’ll never eat a carrot the same way again.
Cherry Cola
On a hot sticky day, the Insatiable Fuzz loves a cold refreshing bottle of Coca Cola. They love it so much…they need it deep inside of them. This freaky picnic is sure to leave you thirsty and swooning. A testament to soda lovers everywhere and to the queer freaks who fuck them.
Onium
A dreamlike and nightmarish journey in the psychic abysses of Onium, a transvestite. Between fantasies and mental hallucinations, a young woman will appear to him, causing a strange relation between these two beings…
Dear Babe
This penpal’s ink doesn’t flow until the arrival of a couple horny houseguests. A film by Ethan Folk and Ty Wardwell feat. Layton Lachman and Ace with music by Kool Toad.
Brunch On Bikes
Freshly-fucked foodies dial up a special delivery. A film by Ethan Folk and Ty Wardwell, featuring dot bat and Torian, with music by Jeans Team, camera by Noam Gorbat, and dolly by Yoav.
Lipstick
Two women in the throes of lust. One predator. One prey. Savagery and sensuality coalesce in a transcendental way
Intoxicate Yourself
French poet Charles Baudelaire was convinced: “You must always intoxicate yourself! With wine, poetry, art – as you will.” Following his command, the queer performers Candy Flip, Jo Pollux and Theo Meow got naked & high – and created their very own interpretation of a smoking fetish film.
Our Alphabet
26 short episodes where each letter is linked to a special term or sexual practice. Witout narration it tells in poetic ways about relationships based on love, trust and equality, at the same time showing in a playful and joyful manner how fetish could be creative, colorful and queer.
EAT!
The “dog” tries to keep its “human” essence and offers its food to the other “dog” – but unsuccessfully.
Bacchanalia
The bacchanalias in antique Rome are celebrated with frenzied rites and sexual initiations.
Mach mich fliegen
By the use of rope an intense emotional connection emerges between two women. A game of opposites: trust and devotion, dominance and submission, control and loss of control, being tied up but nevertheless free.
As you wish, my Lady
My Lady likes a dark space underground, we’ve all spent time there but none of us know the way. We wait for her inside ourselves, touching each other maybe. She first appears as clacking boots and crushed fig leaves on a stairway, then the boots slacken until still. She’s probably deciding, or maybe she’s done it days ago. I hold my breath, and hope.
Female masking with Kim Netto
This film sheds light on a subculture, called The Rubber Doll phenomenon. This is also known as female masking. Female maskers are people, mostly men who love to wear female masks, doll suits and latex.
Lace
A young transvestite tries to hide the fact that he’s impulsively wearing red lingerie on a first date.
Lamento della Ninfa
A meeting between BDSM and baroque singing, beautifully interpreted by Martin Poppins, in a session of domination with Zoe Gold.
The Cuckoldress
A married woman is sent on dates to meet other men at the request of her husband. And her husband isn’t the only one with peculiar kinks.
Bonds
Leo, as a man, becomes a woman to fullfill the desire of his Miss. But Miss Electra will not be satisfied even with female symbiotic slavery or with open slavery… Miss continues to remain perpetually unhappy and dissatisfied. Finally Leo decides to turn into an animal to satisfy her.
Fuck Club
Three contestants compete to out sex each other in a Fight Club meets Pitch Perfect parody interpreted through gay porn.
Spanko
When a misfit teacher explores her taboo fantasies, she’s inspired to start a self-acceptance revolution.
Gender Beast
A playful exchange between a queer creature and an unusual human leaves them transformed.
Vagabondages
One place. Two people. Some ropes to meet. A camera to remember.
The Breath Of Celia
In the labyrinth of love a game of contradictions takes place: two women fight a duel with their feelings; one is reason and the other is the heart…
Mistress C
It’s her last day at the office, but this is not a typical day job. Professional dominatrix, Mistress C, must somehow find a way to get her mojo back.
Davy & Goliath
An afternoon visit to a small city Sex Shoppe yields excitement, surprise and comic relief.
Arachne
Two athletic spiderwomen quarrel over one tasty man. Can he escape?
Profani
Sexy, witchy times ahead when a deity is summoned through magic incantation and the result is more dream than nightmare come true.
Scrotalus
Some unusual creatures come to life in their natural habitats
Sado Vegan Session
A film showing the strange and wonderful performance “Sado Vegan Session” by Werther Germondari and Maria Laura Spagnoli as kinky master chefs
Happy Hour
Relaxing aperitif time for Dave, the “Queer Slave”…
The Move
A man, wearing a female dress, has just moved into his new home when his hot female neighbor rings the door bell.
Experiment H21
Alien experimentation and first contact eroticism
Vows
Behind the private door of the confessional, a nun confesses her sins and receives her penance.
Before Sunrise
A taste of leather, desire and hope.
Define Beauty: Nipples
Highlighting the contradiction of nipples in today’s society, model and Gurls Talk founder, Adwoa Aboah, voices a letter penned by Alex Holder in a film directed by Matt Lambert.
Definy Beauty: His Sweat
A powerful film about “sweat” – erotic, but humanising at the same time. Beautiful but bordering on the grotesque, something educational and intimate, allowing people to potentially see sweat in a way they haven’t before.
Butt Muscle
Injecting sexualized sub sounds layered with heat sinking harmonies, BUTT MUSCLE serves up a surreal soundscape from the artist that guarantees a richness of texture and maturity of stank.
Dominatrix – Behind The Scenes
An experimental behind the scene documentary film featuring Mistress Courtney, a professional dominatrix, on a day of interviews, photoshoots and catwalks.
Angel & Opal
A short documentary film about two burlesque legends talking about the golden years of burlesque. Satan’s Angel and Opal Dockery share memories from their dancing days in the 60’s and ’70’s.
The Puppeteer
An intimate portrait of a 41 year old, unemployed, gay, autistic man who thinks of himself as a overweight loser but finds strength, confidence and admiration in the Dutch gay BDSM scene.
Cupcake
One couple’s unconventional date night told through still images and music. A bold celebration of beauty’s subjective nature.
Red Tale
A dark fairy tale of bad romance with RED RIDING HOOD and BLUEBEARD in a dangerous tango of lights.
Pussy Puppet Simba Remix
Eroticism and pornography in animated puppet film
The Invisible Art Of Shibari
An anarchistic, post-apocalyptic manifesto or a narcissist masturbation monologue?
Monster
A visual experiment transforming a prey into a hunter.
Bugtcher
In this short documentary Bugtcher get interviewed, who is one of the forming members of the BDSM community in Czech Republic.
Wicked Women
When erotic magazine Wicked Women hit the stands, it turned lesbian Australia upside down and liberated lesbian sex for generations to come.
KINK
KINK follows Reed Amber, a porn maker and YouTuber fighting for sexual freedom against pornography censorship and the Digital Economy Act.
The Baroness
The Baroness, New York’s premier designer of elegant and provocative latex, navigates the ever-growing world of latex fashion.
Hooked – Getting High From Pain
A documentary that explores society’s attitude towards self-harm and focuses on “suspension”, the act of impaling oneself to gain euphoria and spiritual transcendence.
Conscious Dream
Morgana Mayer meets and interviews people who tell their sexuality by presenting an extreme, delicate, dreamlike and queer universe.
Touch Me Not
Tell me how you loved me, so I understand how to love – Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research about intimacy.
The Artist & The Pervert
A famous Austrian composer & a renowned African-American kink educator fall in love and start on a controversial journey towards radical self-determination that touches on matters of race, sexuality, politics & power relations. Some call them perverted, others revolutionary.
2019-05-29: NACHTSCHATTEN 2019
The program for this year is now finished and can be seen here. Detailed descriptions of the various sections and films is also available.
2019-04-23: Flyers!
Here are the flyers for this year! Thanks to Kwiesatz for the photo and Greig McArthur for printing them! Flyers and posters have already been printed and are ready to be distributed now…
2019-03-02: FilmFreeway + FestHome!
We are now also listed on FilmFreeway and FestHome, two platforms for film festivals. This also offers an easy and free way to submit films for this year’s festival by clicking these links:
2019-01-27: NACHTSCHATTEN NIGHTS Sexploitation (Feb 12)
Am 12.2. probieren wir mal etwas neues bei unseren NACHTSCHATTEN NIGHTS! Nachtschatten-Festival-Gründer Tobias Fleischer wird einen Vortrag über zwei der einflussreichsten und unerschrockensten Filmemacher und Produzenten der 70er Jahre halten: Erwin C. Dietrich und Wolf C. Hartwig. Ein Hoch auf Schmuddelfilme, die sexuelle Befreiung, lüsterne Schulmädchen und wackere Macker im Fernen Osten und Wilden Westen,
2019-01-21: Nachtschatten 2019!
Time for more news: we can confirm that there will be another edition of our NACHTSCHATTEN BDSM/Fetish Film Festival this year, and the date is now also fixed: June 21 – 30, 2019! Film submissions are also possible now, all infos about that available here: http://www.nachtschatten-filmfest.com/en/submissions/ Hooray!
2018-11-16: Nachtschatten Nights! (Jan 15 2019)
Besides the regular “big” Nachtschatten festival each year in June at the Werkstattkino, there is also the “Nachtschatten Nights” series of events, where selected films (feature and short film programs on a specific topic) out of the wide spectrum of erotic, BDSM and fetish films are screened. The program consists partly of festival films of
2018-11-16: Munich Smut Slam (Dec 2)
Cameryn Moore’s Smut Slam (which we co-organize in Munich) will have yet another fun-filled evening on Dec 2, 2018, this time the topic is “Giving and Receiving”. A “Smut Slam” is a sex positive storyteller night/open mic stage, with volunteers from the audience telling us their real life sex stories (with a chance to win
2018-11-10: Vanilla Whip Online Premiere (Nov 24)
This year at our Nachtschatten BDSM/Fetisch Film Festival, one film particularly stood out: “Vanilla Whip”, an excellent documentary about the BDSM scene in Poland made by young film maker Bogna Kowalczyk. The film rightfully won the “Honorable Mention Award for Best Documentary 2018” at our festival. Not only does her film portrait various people with
2018-07-01: It’s over!
So, we’re back from the dead! A long week (actually, almost 2 weeks) of festival screenings and related events is now finally over. Thank you Greig McArthur for hosting a great closing party at the McArthur & McArthur Studios, thank you Polinka Petite for your great “Alice in Wonderland” burlesque performance and of course thank
Tentation – Memento Mori
An organic and mineral, living and dying experience on the women eroticism, a new transposition the classical nude.
Bleed Me Tender
Three people – viscerally connected, sharing an abject pleasure which becomes almost sacred.
My Pleasure
A short student film for a project on the theme “Love”.
Minne
A short student film for a project on the theme “Love”.
Iroha
A bondage session reflecting on the ancient Japanese poem “Iroha uta” about the impermance of everything.
Amylase Miscellania
“And now: desecration!” A surreal and bizarre short film.
Horny Fruits
Fruit and porn, what a sensual combination!
Reverence/Violence
The film is a visual experiment that portrays the various emotional states that run though a BDSM session.
100 Blows
This tutorial will show you how to give amazing blow jobs. Or maybe not. Not to be taken too seriously in any case. 🙂
Forbidden Fruits
Experimental short film about forbidden fruits.
Precious
A film that chronicles the private thoughts and life of a precious housewife.
Skin Hunger
Skin & Hooks
Constellation
A dream in weightlessness in the milky way – a music video for “Constellation” by Malvina Meinier.
Candy-gasms
A colorful comedy about the two sweetest things in life.
L_UV_E
Sexual activities in the dark meet naked bodies with UV-sensitive body paint.
Tu e(s) la fille
Tu e(s) la fille means “you are the girl”, but if you cross out the “s” then it reads “kill the girl”.
Cracking the Whip
A short documentary about Megara Furie, a professional dominatrix, who demystifies misconceptions about her profession, addresses most pressing issues of her community and proves that latex is not all kink is about.
Sixy Nine Club
The Sixty Nine Club is Europe’s oldest social group for gay leathermen, founded in 1965 when homosexuality was illegal in Britain. Today the club’s last surviving older men show us why the Sixty Nine Club means so much to them through home movies and tales of debauchery, love and friendship.
Sunday with Aleta
A short documentary that follows the session on a Sunday through the eyes of both the sub and the domme.
Soupeur de Tasse
So called ‘soupeurs’ (‘soup eaters’), men loitering in and fetishising public toilets, had a quite simple and straightforward hobby: they would soak some bread in urine and then eat and savour it.
2018-06-06: Das Programm steht!
The program for this year’s Nachtschatten BDSM/Fetisch Film Festival is now available, all screenings can be seen here: PROGRAM 2018 The ticket price is 6 Euro per show, a free seat reservation option is available for each show on the page above. We will shortly add the description of some events surrounding the festival.
The Night Cleaner
As the night cleaner in Canada’s busiest gay bathhouse, Travis has his work cut out for him. With good humour he takes us on an amusing and sometimes harrowing tour through his nightly duties.
Labia of Love
A short experimental film about loving your labia, featuring the colorful labia of Morgana Muses-Coady.
Ritual and Worship
A short documentary that focuses on conscious BDSM practitioner Caritia and the workshop culture in Berlin.
Vanilla Whip
An animated documentary about four people from Poland and their conflicting approaches to BDSM.
Jackpot
It’s 1994 and there’s no Internet. So 14-year-old Jack Hoffman sets off on a quest to find and retrieve a stash of gay porn from across town before anyone finds out.
Switch Hitter
Switch Hitter and his side kick Voyher fight sinister crimes against sexuality. Today they face off the villain known only as “The Prude.”
Karate Condom
Let’s train to fight against HIV, young Karate Condom!
POW (Piss Off, War)
During a war, the battle rages. Behind the lines, the atmosphere seems quieter, but in reality also there we can find hallucinating situations…
Fantasme
The best man in the land is on its way to collect his sausage from the butcher – and no one is going to stop him!
Nicole’s Cage
A young couple moves into a gondola of a ferris wheel. But one of them has a very uncommon request for their new home that causes quite some trouble for the other partner.
Furniture Porn Project
An exploration of various kinds of pornography using absurd and peculiar main characters: pieces of furniture.
TASTE OF LOVE
A young woman on a quest for the taste of love.
Breakfast In Bed
This boy’s hole is warm and ready to make his lover’s favorite breakfast.
Le Clitoris
Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory.
The Gimp
To escape a delicate situation, an ardent lover end up on a window ledge of which he will accidentaly fall… Short but very funny!
Library Hours
A recent widow named Camille falls into a strange, long-distance courtship with a librarian named Delphine, her dead husband’s first wife.
Be Right Back
A bored vintage shopkeeper spends her days dreaming up raunchy fantasies about her unwitting customers -until she finally decides to do something about it.
Eclair
When a woman confronts her date with an unusual request, he’s forced to choose between his beliefs or her fantasy.
Butcher’s Hook
Little piggie waits in the pigsty for the butcher to come…
Growing Pains
A short film about a boy who turns into a werewolf when he gets horny.
Anna Conda
A man on his way home to his wife. But time and time again he can’t resist the seductive “Anna Conda” and succumbs to her.
Prey
A man is hunted like an animal by masked figures in the mountains.
The Wrong End Of The Stick
A neurotic, middle-aged teacher lost in a dull marriage faces an all-consuming identity crisis as he is forced to express a deep, hidden desire…
Queen Kong
A man and a woman try to have sex in the forest at night, but Queen Kong is in for a surprise…
Take Me Like The Sea
What is the link between Baudelaire, a coffee machine and Mozart? Through seven scenes, the two worlds of classical music and queer pornography meet in a poetic and humorous way.
Female Touch
The fetish fantasies of a masturbating woman in her latex mask – blasphemic and dreamlike.
My Body My Rules
This performance film shows 8 women who reveal the magical, cruel, sensual and powerful relationship that they maintain with respect to their own body
Tom of Finland
Touko Laaksonen returns home to Finland after serving in World War II. In post-war Helsinki, he makes a name for himself with his homoerotic drawings of muscular men. Before finding fame, Laaksonen finds challenges from his sister and Finnish society due to his art.
Boys for Sale
A documentary about “urisen”, young Japanese guys who have sex with men, detailing the awkward, sweet, and sometimes horrific situations these young sex workers experience.
Ex-Dominatrix
Discover a woman’s transformational true story from Bondage to Beyond
2018-04-15: Flyers!
Here are the flyers for this year! Thanks to Kwiesatz for the photo and Greig McArthur for printing them! Flyers and posters have already been printed and are ready to be distributed now…
2018-03-15: Next Nachtschatten Nights!
Besides our anniversary edition of our NACHTSCHATTEN BDSM/FETISH FILM FESTIVAL from June 21st to June 30th 2018, we will also continue our regular monthly Nachtschatten Nights film evenings. The next dates for that are April 17th (Tue), May 15th (Mon) and June 19th (Tue). You can find more information about the events and location as
2018-02-09: NACHTSCHATTEN 2018!
The dates for the anniversary edition of our NACHTSCHATTEN BDSM/FETISH FILM FESTIVAL are now set: June 21st to 30th 2018! 10 days with brandnew films and classics! We are looking forward to see you there! Submissions are still possible (http://www.nachtschatten-filmfest.com/en/submissions/), the final program will be announced in May.
2018–02-03: Work, work, work!
We are alreay busy working on the 5th edition of our main NACHTSCHATTEN BDSM/FETISH FILM FESTIVAL 2018 (starting Mid of June 2018, details will be announced soon)! Our next dates for the Nachtschatten Nights are also set, look here: NACHTSCHATTEN NIGHTS Please note that we will be moving our film night from Thursday to Tuesday
2017-12-30: Get ready for Nachtschatten 2018!
Submission for the NACHTSCHATTEN BDSM/FETISH FILM FESTIVAL 2018 (starting Mid of June 2018) are now open! Yes, we will do another edition of our Nachtschatten BDSM/Fetish Film Festival in 2018 (our 5th one then already)! We are already in the planning and preparation stage and are now also accepting film submissions. Interested filmmakers can find
2017-12-05: Happy Holidays!
We are off into our well-deserved Christmas holiday season, but are looking forward to a naughty year 2018 with you! Of course the “Nachtschatten Nights” will continue in January as well as our big “Nachtschatten” film festival in June, then in its 5th year already! See you!
2017-09-29: Nachtschatten Nights Überraschungsfilm
Am 19.10. ist es wieder Zeit für unseren nächsten Filmabend. In den McArthur & McArthur Studios wird dann der Überraschungsfilm vom ersten Nachtschatten-Festival in 2014 gezeigt werden. Weitere Infos sowie eine kostenfreie Reservierung ist hier möglich: http://www.nachtschatten-filmfest.com/reservation/nachtschatten-nights-19-10-2017/ Wir freuen uns auf euch!
2017-09-02: Nachtschatten Nights, die 2.!
Nach dem erfolgreichen Auftakt unserer “Nachtschatten Nights”-Reihe im August kommt hier die Ankündigung für unseren nächsten Event: Am 14.9. werden wir (wieder in den McArthur & McArthur Studios) die besten, lustigsten, unterhaltsamsten Fetisch-/BDSM-Kurzfilme aus den letzten Festivaljahren zeigen, wieder moderiert von Tobias Fleischer. Weitere Infos sowie eine kostenfreie Reservierung ist hier möglich: http://www.nachtschatten-filmfest.com/reservation/nachtschatten-nights-14-09-2017/ Wir freuen
2017-07-11: Nachtschatten Nights!
Wir präsentieren: NACHTSCHATTEN NIGHTS! Mit der neuen “Nachtschatten Nights”-Reihe wollen wir euch die Wartezeit bis zum nächsten großen Nachtschatten-Festival im Juni etwas verkürzen. Dazu wird es in gemütlicher und mehr oder weniger kleiner Runde Filmabende geben, an denen Festivalorganisator Tobias Fleischer ausgewählte Filme (Spielfilme und Kurzfilmprogramme zu bestimmten Themen) vorstellen wird aus dem weiten Feld
2017-06-19: Schon wieder vorbei
Wow, unser Festival ging gestern mit einem wunderbaren Abend zu Ende! Danke an alle die da waren, es hat einen riesigen Spaß gemacht, auch “hinter den Kulissen”. Und es hat uns natürlich besonders gefreut, dass trotz des relativ kurzen Vorlaufs und weniger Promotion dieses Jahr das Kino wieder fast durchgehend gut gefüllt war, das spricht
2017-06-14: Vorfreude
Ab morgen abend, Donnerstag, 15.6., 18:30 Uhr, geht es los mit unserem diesjährigen Festival! Das ausführliche Programm ist hier einsehbar und für alle Vorführungen können hier noch kostenfrei bis zu der Hälfte an Plätzen online reserviert werden (die andere Hälfte der Plätze sind nur im Abendkasse-Verkauf). Wir freuen uns auf euch!
Edge
Mistress Evilyne uses a special treatment on a guest, including a vacuum bed and a Venus 2000.
Domestic Bliss
Elita Darling breaking in her new submissive companion Alexandra Rayne.
Leaving the Ghost Boat
A sensual pony play game in nature.
The Fetlife Song
The team from “Perverted Podcast” in a musical ode to the kinky/fetish community website “Fetlife”.
Ketchup Mayo
A gigantic masturbation orgy in ketchup and mayonnaise!!!
Surf
This erotic music video by Estonian artist Tommy Cash needs to be seen to be believed!
House of Air
An extremely funny anthropological study of gay semiotics, taxonomies, and sexual behaviours.
Baiser n’aide pas
A reluctant cigarette fuelled telephone conversation between LouLou Re LouLou and a philosophical alternate self; a pessimistic alter ego.
Kink
The artist KayLove in an experimental short film about jumping and braces.
Choke
Mickey Mod uses his firm grip to give Nenetl the hottest breath play experience of her life.
Redemptio
A submissive girl plays with nipple clamps and a ball gag in a very erotic way…
Oiran
A beautiful session involving tongue and nipple clamps…
Slice
Flesh is just so paper thin…
A Spanking Ode
Some very colorful spanking sessions right in the forest.
Playing Scrabble
A couple explores their fantasies through a very kinky game of scrabble
O mio fiore delicato!
A playful hardcore session between two very expressive participants.
Never Forget
A colorful examination of ageplay and the destruction of identity.
Aspik
A slimy fetish film by the Meow Meow collective from Berlin!
2017-05-31: Reservierungen ab jetzt möglich!
Das Programm nun inklusive Auflistung und Beschreibung der einzelnen Kurzfilme ist jetzt hier einsehbar. Und für alle Vorführungen können ab sofort hier kostenfrei die Hälfte an Plätzen online reserviert werden (die andere Hälfte der Plätze sind nur im Abendkasse-Verkauf): Eine Reservierung ist bis ca. 16 Uhr des Tages der Vorführung möglich (oder bis alle Reservierungsplätze
Protokolle
In this short documentary, three men talk about their desire of being slaughtered and eaten.
Happy Happy Baby
A short film about the longing of being little again. Cuddling, playing, getting the bottle and good night stories. No fetish, but a way of life.
Die Figur in mir
Markus is the city’s most popular public pisser. That’s what we learn on his blog where he posts his videos. In these he seems unrestrained and shameless. Yet behind the digital facade we meet a self-conscious and shy man.
Windelfetisch – Keiner darf’s erfahren!
Manu’s fetish are diapers, as an “adult baby” he plays with toys, sleeps in a small bed or masturbates with his diaper in hand. He hardly tells anyone about his fetish, as there are too many prejudices around.
Petplay – Rollenspiel als Pferd
Maximilian is a petplayer, specifically a “Pony Player”. He likes to dress as a horse – a fetish many people can’t understand. We take a walk with him in his outfit.
Être Cheval / Horse-Being
Karen, a 50 year-old retired teacher and father of one, aims at becoming a horse: he learns pony-play with a Floridian cow-boy, dresses as an equine and practices dressage and sulky with him.
Sexual Labyrinth
A young woman is kidnapped and imprisoned as a slave. A dominatrix evokes different erotic episodes in her mind, diving deeper and deeper into a surreal and sexy fetish fantasy world.
Dark Circus
Visions and dark nightmares lead Johanna to a parallel universe of a gothic-fetish scene where she gets under the influence of “The Mistress” and finds a new sexual and emotional home.
Erotyk
A man, a woman, an elevator, a fantasy…
Magnitude
A short comedy about four friends getting ready for a huge upcoming gay dance party – and the hilarious, sexy and downright bizarre fantasies of what they think they might experience there!
Undercover Mistress
During an exhibition, a man enjoys scaring a girl until she decides to leave the show. The man runs after her along increasingly dark and isolated streets. A man and a woman? Which one is the dominant genre?
Imperial Tranz-Am
Masculine and feminine collide in an auto garage with an explosion of fluids.
Arnilia Grove
A fashion model escapes her superficial environment to indulge in a paraphilic phone relationship with a stranger, feeding her desire of being tormented.
Nurse me
Emerging from the sea’s dark folds, three lone figures are reborn into a post-apocalyptic world. The nurses – bearers of solace, fetish and sexual power – have been drawn back to the center, the vortex, to where it all began.
Trouser Bar
Set in a London gentleman’s outfitters in 1976, and taking inspiration from the emotions aroused by a fetishist love of corduroy, leather and tight trousers, two men enter Sir John’s Trouser Bar but little do they know the sexual adventures that await them inside.
Etage X
An accidental meeting in an elevator at a department store leads two older women to their limits and forces them to improvise by the time the elevator gets stuck.
Fesseln für Anfänger
Michael discovers the world of BDSM and fetish sex. He visits a BDSM munch in Munich and meets Coco, who gives him a new view on the BDSM scene and its members.
How to give a spanking
The team from “Perverted Podcast” gives us some insight into what makes a safe and enjoyable spanking session for beginners.
Spank you very much
An original song celebrating the joys of spanking.
Venus
Venus is an erotic comedy about rediscovering one another and finding the spark where you least expect it.
Cake
Eliza tries to explore her sexuality within her marriage with her husband Thomas by surprise ordering a female sex robot for them to share. But the sexbot is not the cure-all she had hoped for. Be careful what you wish for.
You’ve got tail
A mail carrier is in for a salty surprise. The pups at this house are a little friendlier than he was expecting…
Shine
A short documentary about Shine, a rubber fetishist, from Brooklyn-based filmmaker Isabel Faintych.
Breathtaking
Morgana Muses in her first experiences with breathplay in the experienced hands of conscious kink practitioner Caritia.
Tabook
While browsing the bookstore 19-year-old Gwen is unexpectedly drawn to a volume of kinky erotica, earning her disapproving glares from the other customers. Will Gwen follow her deepest desires or will she let her embarrassment restrain her?
2017-05-27: Nachtschatten 2017 Programm!
Die Termine und Programmblöcke für das diesjährige Programm stehen jetzt final und können in der linken Spalte unter “Programm” eingesehen werden!
2017-01-23: Nachtschatten 2017!
Submission for the NACHTSCHATTEN BDSM/FETISH FILM FESTIVAL 2017 (starting probably on June 15, 2017) are now open! Yes, we will do another edition of our Nachtschatten BDSM/Fetish Film Festival in 2017! We are already in the planning and preparation stage and are also already accepting film submissions. Interested filmmakers can find more details on this
2016-06-29: Es ist vorbei!
Es ist schon wieder vorbei für dieses Jahr mit unserem Festival, aber wir sind alle sehr happy wie gut es gelaufen ist! Danke an alle die da waren und hoffentlich genau so viel Spaß hatten wie wir, es war es auf jeden Fall wieder eine richtig schöne Sache. Bis zum nächsten Mal – wir sehen
2016-06-20: HALBZEIT! Verlängerung und Party!
Es ist HALBZEIT! Nicht nur beim Fußball gibt es das, auch unser Festival ist dieses Jahr schon zur Hälfte vorbei, aber da das Münchner Publikum uns ja meist mit gut gefüllten Vorstellungen belohnt hat, können wir heute offiziell die Verlängerung des Festivals um zwei Tage bis zum 26.6. bekannt geben können! Und auch das Programm
Handkerchief
An interesting torture session with a handkerchief and a bottle of water.
The White Chapter
Mistress Kim Sanders in a session consisting of insamination, anal birth and simulated sterilisation.
2016-06-14: Bald geht’s los!
Wir sind schon fleißig am Vorbereiten, denn ab Freitag geht es ja schon los! Das Programm inklusive aller Kurzfilme gibt es weiterhin hier und reservieren für die einzelnen Vorstellungen geht auf dieser Unterseite. Für das erste Festivalwochende sind schon viele Plätze vergeben, also noch schnell reservieren, wer Interesse hat! Und noch ein paar Details zu
A reasonable request
A desperate son reconnects with his estranged father to ask an unspeakable favor that will change their lives forever.
Dominion Street
A comedic take on a dominatrix struggling to balance her eccentric work with her desire to have a normal life.
Ashtray
A very special fetish about a human ashtray.
Vital Signs
An educational (but still appealing and sensual) short film about queer bloodplay, funded by a public health organisation.
Chrysalis
Needles and feathers – a rebirth experience.
On Tender Hooks
A short documentary delving into the world of human suspension.
Le Papillon
This film brings us into the internal psychological and emotional experience of a kinky submissive as she discovers ultimate freedom within the warm embrace of her cocoon. A BDSM session as a metamorphosis.
Deconstructed Beauty
An artful short film about female identity, sexuality and autonomy.
Bald, Love & Blood
A sensual look at needle piercings, blood and love.
The Session
A cheeky look at the seductive world of a professional dominatrix who is lured into the murky world of espionage.
The Knob Sucker
Even cupboard knobs and door handles can turn into a fetish…
The Terminal Position
The Terminal Position uses the game of tic-tac-toe as an overly elaborate metaphor for the homogenisation of emotional and sexual relationships, it’s title coming from the game’s stalemate condition in which neither participant can be declared the winner.
scum/asphyxiation
An experimental erotic film about the dynamics between the beautiful and the repulsive. Inspired by Charles Baudelaire and Mica Levi.
Smack
A little fetish short story by Werther Germondari and Maria Laura Spagnoli.
Popoxexeca
Dark body landscapes and mysterious lights.
Locked
A cinematic experiment. It is a document of one man spending his days in a chastity cage, locked away yet teased, loved and tormented, waiting for his release. Will it ever come?
La gravité éphémère
A dialogue between the ropes and brush. When Kinbaku meet Calligraphy.
Kaleidogasm
Step right up folks! Don’t be shy! Put the coins in the slot of this fabulous contraption and be prepared for a stunning visual extravaganza. Thrill as the Kaleidogasm creates astonishing images of flesh! Gasp at the surreal eroticism of it all! Groan at the mysterious feeling in your pants!
JUICE PORN: Women Redefine Sexy
Fruit porn is back! This short film marries the world of sex and pomegranates, playing with extreme close ups of tongues, teeth, skin and of course fruit.
Fetish
“Fetish” by Laura May takes us into a bizarre and beautiful world of fetishes.
Derreter
Ice works not only for drinks!
I/XXI
A beautiful bondage session with two women. Anna Tsuri is being tied by Ann Antidote.
Colette
Colette
Pig at the Ocean
A pig at the ocean!
Aprop
Aprop is an atypical short film shot in black and white that introduces the audience to a world of sensations.
Thick N’Juicy
Hot dog love! Look at all that sausage!
Let Go
A video based on the director’s experiences in the cruising areas. While meeting people and having new sexual partners every day he had to get over the feeling that he would like to stay longer with someone.
Lovers
An ode to love and shopping carts.
Open Up
It’s time to open up and experience something new!
Puppy Love
Cute little puppies need love!
At the Porno Shop
A tour around a porno shop, presented in a very amusing musical way.
Self Inflicted
A short dark-romantic-comedy, a love story with a punch. Jim’s just a regular guy, except for his masochistic tendencies, who’s looking for Ms. Right. Can he control his destructive urges long enough to find her?
Tape Loop
A tape with mysterious instructions set the stage for this fetish fantasy by Berlin-based filmmaker collective “Meow Meow”.
The Key
A fantasy about a very special experiment involving an inaccessible key.
Fetish
A woman home alone. A burglar with some strange intentions. A fetish fantasy.
MASK4MASK
This short film shows us that latex masks and outfits should not be worn exclusively in the fetish club, but can easily be integrated into your daily life.
Deviance
A supermarket full of dreams and fantasies where anything can happen! A celebration of everyone’s perversity.
Moving on from Vanilla
Moving on from Vanilla – A light intro to BDSM as an animated short film explaining various terms and techniques for beginners.
Folsom Street
A kink and fetish fueled dance explosion in celebration of the 2015 Folsom Street Fair.
Pornographic Apathetic
Two girls, two guys. Sex like you’ve never seen. Four people recounting pornographic film dialog in a state of apathy. A satirical look at the desensitizing effects of pornography.
Last Call
A lonely woman drinks at the bar; she is unexpectedly welcomed into the underworld of her fantasies.
Muneca
A grim tale of hidden undercurrents: desires, fears, manipulation, and animal instincts vie with each other in a maelstrom of passions and pitfalls.
Gimp
A short film about a Gimp, a Dominatrix and a Alarm Clock.
Business Time
A short insight into the daily (or rather nightly) life of a very special profession, the Executive Relief Consultant.
Having my cake
A sumptuous film detailing a woman’s journey to Paris where she manages to not only have her cake, but eat it as well.
Coming of Age
The planned Daddy-Son-Afternoon turns into a conversation about male role models – until the roles are fixed again.
Law and Order
A short documentary about the normalitiy of body and sexuality in ages.
Tram
With enough fantasy, the daily routine for the driver of the streetcar is actually the opposite of boring.
Terry and Brenda
You can’t choose your family… but you can choose your victims.
Disturb Don’t Disgust
A filmic examination of the topics BDSM and fetish through showing aesthetic snap-shots of those often misunderstood sexual predispositions.
The Zoo
Somebody knows that Miranda will be home alone and which is her desire, so she will receive an unexpected and very special visit.
Houseboy
A lesson in how to get your houseboy to do it right and how to keep jealousy from tearing your disciplined home apart.
2016-06-01: Das Programm ist da!
Es ist soweit! Das Festivalprogramm für dieses Jahr ist jetzt hier verfügbar und für die einzelnen Vorstellungen können hier auch schon Karten kostenlos vorreserviert werden. Die Programm-/Terminübersicht in Kurzform ist hier auch als PDF verfügbar. Die Auflistung und Beschreibung der einzelnen Kurzfilme bei den Themenabenden sowie weitere Infos kommen noch im Lauf der nächsten Tage.
Cam Girlz
Cam Girlz takes us into the private lives and thriving home businesses of cam girls, showing us the motivation, intentions and emotions behind their work.
S&M Sally
When Jamie finds out her girlfriend Jill has spent time exploring BDSM, her insecurities about falling behind in the bedroom push her to propose that they start going to underground clubs.
Wir leben SM!
Most people have entirely the wrong idea about the SM scene, due, in general, to one-sided and sensational reporting in the media. This documentary films aims to remedy that.
The Ceremony
Catherine Robbe-Grillet, age 85, defies the relations between power and submission, sensuality and physical pain. She surrounds herself with brilliant characters, depicting complex lives on the other side of social conventional boundaries.
SICK – The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
This legendary documentary film chronicles the life of Bob Flanagan for several years leading up to his death in 1996. Flanagan was a Los Angeles writer, poet, performance artist, comic, and BDSM celebrity, who suffered from and later died of cystic fibrosis
Surprise film
We will be screening one the first mainstream porn films about BDSM, (loosely) based on a classic literay BDSM novella.
2016-05-16: News Galore
Nach längerer News-Pause gibt es heute eine geballte Ladung an Neuigkeiten! Und unser diesjähriges Nachtschatten BDSM/Fetisch Film Festival steht ja quasi auch schon vor der Tür. Es wird wie einige wohl schon gesehen haben dieses Jahr vom 17.-24.6. staffinden (mit der Option auf Verlängerung bis zum 26.6.), und wieder im Werkstattkino. Unsere diesjährigen Flyer findet
2016-02-29: Button Design Competition!
Remember the various BDSM-themed pin-back buttons/badges we have made in the last years specifically for our festival? Well, this year we try something new as we also offer you the possibility to participate as part of a small button design competition! Feel free to design and submit your very own idea of what could represent
2016-02-10: Submissions now open!
Submission for the NACHTSCHATTEN BDSM/FETISH FILM FESTIVAL 2016 are now open! More details on this page: http://www.nachtschatten-filmfest.com/submissions/
2015-06-30: Nacharbeit
Kleine Nacharbeit zum diesjährigen Festival: Wie angekündigt haben wir auf dieser Seite noch eine Liste mit Links zusammengestellt von den Filmen von diesem und letztem Jahr, die inzwischen online kostenlos verfügbar sind. Ausserdem gibt es eine kleine Nachbetrachtung zum diesjährigen, sehr erfolgreichen Verlauf des Festivals und ein paar Ideen für nächstes Jahr.
2015-06-28: Aus und vorbei!
So leid es uns tut, aber das war es für dieses Jahr mit dem NACHTSCHATTEN BDSM/Fetisch Film Festival! Aber unsere Erwartungen wurden weit übertroffen, das Feedback war enorm positiv und anscheinend hat es wirklich wahnsinnig vielen Leuten gefallen, super! Und ja, natürlich machen wir das nächstes Jahr wieder, bei so einem großen Ansturm und so
2015-06-24: Abschlußprogramm
Das Ergebnis für das Wunschfilmprogramm am Samstag steht fest! Wenn man sämtliche Facebook, Email und Webseiten-Anfragen anschaut, dann will die Mehrheit den einen oder anderen Film vom letzten Jahr sehen, sei es zum ersten Mal oder einfach noch mal. 🙂 Nach kurzfristiger Klärung von Aufführungsrechten und Filmmaterial ergeht daher folgender Beschluß: Am Samstag, 27.6., um
2015-06-23: Verlängerung!
ACHTUNG! Das Festival wird aufgrund der hohen Nachfrage um 2 Tage verlängert bis zum 27.6.! Am Freitag, 26.6., spielen wir um 20 Uhr das “Sexperimente”-Programm noch mal und um 22:30 Uhr den Programmblock “Harte Liebe” vom Eröffnungstag (beide Blöcke waren ja bisher ohne Wiederholung). Und für Samstag, 27.6. sind wir für Vorschläge offen (per Email,
2015-06-19: Start!
Preparations are finished and the festival can start today with “Kopfkino – mindufck” at 8pm and “Harte Liebe / Hard Love” at 10:30pm. There are no more reservations available, but a few tickets are still left at the box office.
2015-06-07: Guests
We are happy to announce our guests and filmmakers for this year’s festival: On Sunday, June 21, Chris Caliman will exclusively present his new film “Holger – Glück ist jeder Augenblick”! On Tuesday, June 23, we welcome our Italian friends, Werther Germondari und Maria Laura Spagnoli, who show us their new work “Coupling”. As part
Misungui Self Shibari
Rope model Misungui does a beautiful session of self-shibari.
REVO-I
Kay meets Amaury in his apartment. He knows this is about porn and BDSM but doesn’t know what exactly he is up to.
Lucid Dreams
A fantasy about a woman bound in the woods.
2015-05-20: Website update
We have now activated the option to reserve seats for specific screenings. The website itself has also been updated and should look good in lower resolutions as well. And we added a new link page for friends and supporters of our festival.
The Rider
A woman rides her horse – in a very sensual and passionate way.
Fleurs du Mal
A beautiful woman, alone at home. And there is something lurking out there…
Ariel’s Judicial Caning
To avoid prison, Ariel Anderssen submits to a 24-stroke judicial caning on the bare bottom. Officer Michael Stamp orders her to strip naked, then straps her to a spanking bench for punishment.
The Frustrated Nun
A frustrated nun performing a bizarre ritual.
Fantasy Reconstituted
A very strange and bizarre fantasy in black and white.
Skin Tone
“When the cat’s away, the mice will play.”
2015-05-04: The program is out!
The final program is now online! 64 film from 18 countries is a whole lot to watch, but we grouped them into 10 different programs, so it will hopefully be a bit easier for you. Here is the program
Domina Mentis
A slave serves his mistress queen in a strange industrial setting. A bizarre short film by John Toda from Italy.
Utter Filth
A funny insight into what a girl might do with a bunch of sausages and an apple on the toilet.
Horses
“Horse Burlesque” is the dance that freaks out horses and humans alike, yet keeps you watching until the end.
Hors d’oeuvre
A very surreal episodic fetish/fashion short film.
Odditory
A very unusual lecture is taking place in this school’s auditorium – one no student should miss!
The Journey
A woman goes on a journey, looking for the perfect man for a certain job. She knows what she wants and how she is going to get it…
Precious
A pizza order that is processed in the most passionate way.
Wollust
The wistful trip of a young girl into a metaphorical dream world that finally seems to merge with her reality.
Mirror
An animated short film about finding the inner self and acceptance of who we are.
The fear of orgasm
A very stylish experimental film about the fear of orgasm.
Amaury et Ju Ju
A very artful and stylish film about a man in bondage.
Ceci n’est pas du sexe
An experimental bondage film originally used as a video projection for a dance project.
Lussuria
An interesting experimental film showing about body fragments and gender identity.
Calamares
A short film with girl and octopus.
Mind the Gap
MEOW MEOW from Berlin show us a strange encounter in the Berlin metro at night.
Dystopie de corps puisque
What does a turtle have in common with a vagina? Well, we can’t promise you will know after watching this film, but it is interesting nonetheless.
Leiber
Felix works as an Escort, having sex with older men. But this time it’s not business as usual: a 550-lbs-man awaits him in his hotel room. But instead of having sex the man tells Felix his fascinating story.
In the Basement
A film by Austrian film maker Ulrich Seidl about people and their obsessions, and what they do in their basements in their free time.
Plastic Love
A dark and twisted tale of love, loss, obsession and fetishes. With a pig’s head, chainsaw, gas mask and balloons!
Bad Day at the Office
Some days you wake up, and life just kicks you in the bollocks.
Erotomania: First Date
Sex addict James Moran met his match in Monica Cole, a sex addict herself who brings a chemistry so powerful that neither of them can return to their freewheeling ways.
Ancient Games
Clothes become a costume, which becomes an excuse to tell a short surreal story, based on the sexual fantasies and formal relations between image and sound.
Bondage
A tale of love and restrictions in modern Japan, inspired by Nobuyoshi Araki’s photographs.
Mistress G’s Lair
Power exchange is the name of the game in Mistress G’s lair, but when the worlds of reality and fantasy collide, the question is, who has the real power?
The Trap
Swiss dominatrix Dshuna Divine in a bizarre Ash ‘n’ Try fetisch film.
La Santa
A hot guy scared about the presence of his mistress. La Santa is taking control of every delicate moment, and he obeys and rests still in the hands of his mistress.
Room Number Seven
A film project about beauty and sensuality, starring model Anneke Necro in a very fetishistic fight with an apple and other fruits.
Sense
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only passion. A short film about Eros, bondage and fetish. And Vivaldi.
Fertility Baptism
An Erotic Study of Eggs, Milk and Smoke.
Coupling
A short fetish story about a mistress and her dog slave meeting a like-minded couple.
The Table
A man goes to a potential employer’s house one evening, only to find he is in for quite a surprise…
Tiger
The story of Tom and his cute little kitten that quickly can turn into a cat of prey!
Domimaid
Life between fetish and bondage, pleasure and pain. A parody of one of the most anticipated movies this year.
Saint and Whore
A documentary about a married man whose preferences for sex with men, swinger clubs and the wearing of female clothes collide with his family life.
Action Painting No. 1 / No. 2
Sex as a mutual creative gesture. She responds to his movements by scratching his back with blood marks. He drips candle wax on her back during the sexual act.
Inverted Fountain
A performatic sculpture about art and transformation. She eats grapes that are expelled as wine through her vagina, onto his mouth.
Happy Birthday Mistress
A short film about a woman, who knows what she wants – especially on her birthday.
Sloop
A short documentary about the Swiss photographer “Sloop” who specializes in BDSM/fetish photography.
I Want To Help You Scream
A mute woman on her voyage to discover her own voice – using a BDSM experience.
Holger – Glück ist jeder Augenblick
Holger. Story of a man. Impressions of a gay life in Berlin.
Rubber Romance
(Deutsch) Eine Reise durch die dunklen Fantasien eines SM-Sklaven und seine Beziehung zu seiner Herrin.
24/7
A comedy about love, sex and urgent desire.
Butterfly Caught
A young woman discovers a book about Japanese bondage – something which lets her imagination run wild…
Emily Sarah
A documentary about a young dominatrix who combines BDSM sessions with Reiki healing methods.
Mistress Cameo and Master El Diablo
A short documentary about a master and mistress couple in the UK who talk about their experiences and attitudes.
The Office Assistant
An application for an office job for a dominatrix – what could possibly go wrong?
The Wet Nurse and her Diabolical Concerns
A bizarre black and white film between fish fetish and Ingmar Bergman.
Parfois, mon corps me trahit
A strange and weird experience about the monthly betrayal of the female body.
Love Hotel
Love hotels – unique places where escapism and intimacy collide. But can they survive in a time of growing conformity?
Love Hard
A great docu-portrait about BDSM and intimacy.
Pervers?
A short documentary by students from Hamburg on the subject of BDSM.
XYX
Skin, Hair, Body – all in extreme closeup. And a rather unconventional use of fruits!
It’s my birthday and I’ll fly if I want to
A documentary detailing the transformative journey one women undertakes when she grants herself permission to indulge and enjoy life.
FETISH Subculture Documentary
A documentation from Canada about the meaning of fetish, where models, designer, performers and photographers call the shots.
The Sixth Season
Farmer Arwed receives a special gift from his friend: a one week wellness vacation. In jail.
Prison System 4614
A documentary portrait of a self-built prison in which men can be imprisoned and tortured voluntarily.
Kopfkino (mindfuck)
Eight sexworkers sitting at a banquet table, exchanging stories from their line of work.
2015-04-15: Flyers!
Here are the flyers for this year’s festival: Yes, we now have 4 different covers (and slightly different back sides). All original photos on the front sides were taken by fetish photographer “kwiesatz” (Styx IT Fetish Photography).
2015-04-14: Reservations
New this year: for every screening it will now be possible to reserve a certain amount of tickets (about half of the available seats) in advance, here on our website, for free. You just have to enter name, email and required amount of tickets (up to 5 per person/show) for each desired screening on the
2015-04-13: Final Festival Dates 2015 announced
Okay, here we go! From now on, we will publish more and more information about this year’s upcoming edition of our NACHTSCHATTEN festival! Let’s start with the announcement of the final dates: we were able to shift the festival one day, so the festival 2015 will be held from June 19 to June 25, as
2015-01-21: “Remedy” German Theatrical Release
Most excellent news about Remedy, one of the audience favorites from last year’s festival: Starting tomorrow (Thursday, Jan 22), “Remedy” will get an official German theatrical release! It will be screened in the following cinemas: B-WARE (Berlin), BROTFABRIK (Berlin), B-MOVIE (Hamburg), TRAUM-KINO (Kiel). Later screenings will be at ORFEOS ERBEN (Frankfurt), WERKSTATTKINO (Munich) and other
2015-01-04: Submissions now open!
Submission for the NACHTSCHATTEN BDSM/FETISH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 (June 18-24, 2015) are now open! More details on this page: http://www.nachtschatten-filmfest.com/submissions/
2015-01-01: Happy New Year!
We wish you a Happy New Year 2015! As you can see, we now have a news blog on this site which we will fill bit by bit with news about the upcoming 2015 edition of the NACHTSCHATTEN festival. WHAT? Yes, it’s true, we will have a new edition of our BDSM/fetish film festival this
Prometeo
A unique underwater interpretation of the Greek legend of Prometheus.
Buon Compleanno
A very special birthday surprise: his biggest wish is getting punished and humiliated! Happy Birthday!
Last night I dreamt of a Tea Ceremony
A tea ceremony like you have never seen it before – surreal, bizarre and damn hot!
Doing it again – Playful Awakenings
This film is a detailed exploration of trans women’s relationship and hookup dynamics, weaving together explicit sex and BDSM scenes and interview footage from a diverse range of trans women and their partners.
Taken
An abduction fantasy explored by the abductee, a woman with a depth of imagination and a texturality of text who speaks her desires to have her desires withheld.
Liebe, Tod, Abendbrot
A bizarre love story that tells of a young daughter of a slaughterer and her sadomasochistic relationship with elderly circus clown Pippo.
A Weekend in Germany
Two elderly men are enjoying their free saturday by lying in the sun, working in the garden and their usual S&M and bondage sessions. An ordinary weekend in Germany.
24/7 – The Passion of Life
When Eva meets Maria, a professional dominatrix, she is fascinated of her bizarre yet somehow attracting world of erotic subjection and freedom and wants to find her own sexual identity.
Preaching to the Perverted
The incredibly funny British cult classic BDSM comedy about a young computer technician that infiltrates London’s BDSM scene on behalf of the Parliament, only to fall in love with both the fetish scene as well as a dominatrix.
My day with Tarna
A documentary about the everyday life of an extreme scat/fetish-dominatrix from Berlin.
The Incomplete
A documentary portrait about a gay man who decided to live as a slave, strifing to become the perfect servant.
Surprise film 2014
As our surprise film, we will be screening one the best porn films ever made, and certainly one of the best dealing with BDSM topics.
SM Richter
A story about dark sexuality and true love, told from the lover’s unique point of view. An exceptional emotional and powerful film based on true events.
Jumpcut
Captured in this artful short film is a young woman’s fantasy of submission and bondage
Häppchenweise
A postpornographic experiment: six people, one room, one night, one dinner, a lot of sensuality and much to discover. A film that shows how bodies and minds might meet, when allowed to.
Krutch
A steamy short film starring Mia Gimp that explores perception, sexuality, disability and gender on the streets and sheets of New York City.
Remedy
The film follows a young woman from the underground kink clubs of New York City to a commercial BDSM dungeon where her job is to embody the sexual and psychological fantasies of complete strangers.
Pan Play Decadence
An experimental documentary that tells the the story of the poignant lives of people united by their passion for “transgression”, reunited in a club for the recurring event “Decadence”
Loops
In experimental sex scenes, the audience is challenged by simultaneously watching wild, hardcore sex whilst the lovers looks at us directly and share their stories about spirituality, politics, pregnancy, feminism and more.
