Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

XConfessions

Erika LUST 2016 Sweden Fiction color 99min English DCP
In 2013 Erika began the XConfessions series, a site where users watch short films based on their own anonymous sexual confessions. Every month Erika Lust picks two of her followers' fantasies and turns them into erotic explicit short films. Now in it's third year, Erika has filmed over 100 short films, released XConfessions seventh volume and has now invited guest directors to be part of the project, supporting the burgeoning alternative talent across the globe. XConfessions' seventh volume is the most artistic and cinematic collection yet. It has a beautifully diverse range of fantasies; gourmet erotica, a seductive femme fatale, and three short films from our Guest Directors. There's everything from good old fetishes to some new super fun and kinky stuff like our first erotic documentary on a real-life couple, an incendiary threesome mixed with contemporary dance and pure sexy witchcraft.

Director

Erika LUST

Erika Lust is a filmmaker, writer, blogger, mother, owner and founder of Erika Lust Films where she offers an alternative to the mainstream porn industry. Erika's philosophy for a new adult cinema is based on 4 main ideas: women's pleasure matters, adult cinema can have cinematic values, we need more body types, different ages and diverse races and the production process has to be ethical. She defends the importance of the female gaze and the need of having women behind the camera in all key positions. Based in Barcelona, born in 1977 in Sweden, Erika Lust studied political sciences, feminism and gender studies. Tired of chauvinistic and tacky mainstream porn, she burst into the adult industry in 2004, with the indie short film The Good Girl – a humorous statement of principles. The immediate success of this first attempt encouraged her to pursue a film career. Erika has since then directed three multi-awarded erotic films: Five Hot Stories for Her, Life Love Lust and Cabaret Desire. She also directed the experimental documentary Barcelona Sex Project and wrote several books.

Erika LUST
  • 2016 XConfessions Vol. 7

Director : Erika LUST

Erika Lust 
erikalust@lustfilms.com