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The most famous woman in the world was a sex worker. Marilyn Monroe knowingly used sex as a source of income. The first escort of pop culture lived by the economy of sex work. Hollywood slid its hand between her thighs and turned it into a myth — for profit. Her body was stolen, copied, consumed. But what if that body were trans?

The Rise of OnlyFans is an illuminating documentary that provides a comprehensive exploration of the unprecedented growth and cultural impact of the groundbreaking platform, OnlyFans.

EMPOWER is a series of three portraits of sex workers with heterogeneous trajectories crossing paths of migration, Trans identities, feminism, the fight against HIV, the fight against precariousness and discrimination. Interweaving personal journeys, political analysis, and strategies of collective resistance, Aying, Giovanna Murillo Rincon, and Mylène Juste demand for the rights of minorities. Far from the objectification often at work in documentaries, EMPOWER is a tribute to the voices of sex workers through an active collaboration in production with the protagonists.

A young girl who lives with her poor father has to get her driver's license for a new part-time job. Because she doesn't have enough money, she has to pay for the lessons in a different, irregular way. And she does that with no other than the intriguing driving instructor Roy, but how is this going to end?

Award-winning short film, Clankers, is an investigation into the sinister rise of AI-generated sex workers today.⁠ ⁠

"No Refunds" is a visceral, tangled descent into the transactional dynamics of intimate encounters, told through the language of bodies, sheets, and reflections, where the purchase of queer sex work is laid bare. As the filmmaker simultaneously takes on the roles of client and audience, the boundaries between documentary and performance fade, unraveling the artifice at the heart of sex work and the act of filmmaking.

A collection of stories from the Sex Worker Freedom Festival that took place in Kolkata 2012.

Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975.

A choral story of women who worked as prostitutes and the feminist debate on abolitionism and regulation, through their life stories, desires and convictions.

The current trend to render prostitution a profession "as any other" is belied by women who were themselves prostitutes. With clarity and courage, the women in this film reveal the hidden face of that so-called "sex work". They are 22, 34 or 48 years old; they live in Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa - They have recently given up prostitution, or are trying to escape it. These women are leading the bitter fight to turn their lives around and it is a long and lonely struggle fraught with difficulties. Shot in a Cinéma Vérité style, The Fallacy (L'imposture) takes us to the heart of their realities.

Six women stand before the camera to shape a unique film: it is unclear whether it is a documentary or a comedy, perhaps an LGBTQ+ statement or a film about sex work. What is certain is that it is a celebration of friendship and resilience, of communal life and solidarity. Add to this the boldness of the women involved, along with the freedom of an unabashed camera, and the result is irresistible.

Three strangers immersed in the world of camming come together to discuss its impact on young people. But their views are radically different. While one sees it as a respectable trade full of dedicated and liberated women, another sees it as a direct exploitation of the male libido. The third sees it as a haven for lonely people like himself to reconnect with the intimacy that’s missing from their lives. What they don’t know is that they all have one person in common – and she’s watching the conversation from the next room. Bex is a curvy cam model, and she’s witnessing their unfiltered feelings about her and the industry unfold. Filled with passionate debates, disagreements, humour and revelation, will our common people unite? Or will their revelations polarise them further?

The history of New York’s Meatpacking District, told from the perspective of transgender sex workers who lived and worked there. Filmmaker Kristen Lovell, who walked “The Stroll” for a decade, reunites her community to recount the violence, policing, homelessness, and gentrification they overcame to build a movement for transgender rights.

In 1999, the largely conservative Wairarapa district in New Zealand elected a former cabaret performer/actress named Georgina Beyer to the country's House of Parliament -- a seemingly unremarkable event in that country's history except for the fact that Beyer is a transsexual and may very well be the first transsexual in the world to be elected to a national office. In their 2002 biographical documentary Georgie Girl, co-directors Peter Wells and Annie Goldson highlight the popular Member of Parliament's rapid rise through local government to prominence in the New Zealand national government.

Sex is a taboo topic in China, even though China is a large importer of the Japanese Adult Video (AV) industry. What happens when a Japanese adult video star such as Yui Hatano comes to China? This film shows the China's sexual liberation in a comedic way.

The Director reflects upon and seeks to understand the causes and the events that lead to her drug-addicted prostitute daughter being murdered at the age of 26.

For the past ten years, Evelyn has been running her own brothel in a quiet small town in Germany. Serving as a sort of open invitation to her BDSM studio, this observational film delves deeply into Evelyn’s daily life and her dedication to running her own business. Karola Pfaffinger makes it a principle that the term sex work emphasises the work and not the voyeuristically illustrated sex.

A Q&A session with the founder of 'Heaux History Project' Erica aka Rebelle.

A look behind the scenes of the Czech gay porn boom.

Witness the world of two sex workers in Toronto, who share their experiences in the industry and discuss the emotional labour involved in responding to comments on their race and gender.