A Hot Summer Night

Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and live life as she pleased.

Juha is 38 years old and has three small children and a depressed wife. He sees himself as strong and believes a man should provide for his family. But one day Juha is fired from his job. Ashamed, he weaves a web of lies to hide the fact from his family. With the help of his friend Olli, Juha begins prostituting himself to support his wife and children. With this he makes in two hours what it took him two days to earn before. The shame and deception mushroom, but the pay from the new profession seems to offset the downside.

Bea can’t breathe when her girlfriend’s away.

A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.

The late Carolina Becerra, a San Francisco sex worker, is caught in a downward spiral within a destructive lifestyle of drugs and pain. Based on the true story of a San Francisco sex-worker's slow decline within a destructive lifestyle. Dealing with loss, exploitation and drug addiction, this is an unflinching glimpse into the heart of a prostitute.

A phone sex operator loses her grip on reality, caught in a hypnotic relationship with a caller making disturbing confessions.

Close to paying off her debts, a Nigerian sex worker in Austria coaches a reluctant novice, and assesses the risks of taking a faster path to freedom.

Navigating a nihilist millennial world where sugar-dating apps, hashtags and designer drugs are king, two sugar babies begin a murderous vendetta against Daddy. Attempting to stamp out patriarchal evils, Teddy and Rose must confront their own morality, or lack thereof. Daddy's Playground positions notions of power and feminine agency within the context of sex work and survivalism.

Serap, who has been living in the darkest streets of Beyoglu, is a charming woman in her 20s. A beautiful woman's way of prostitution and prostitution living in the back streets of Beyoglu as a person intersects with him when a magical love begins. Hakan tries to take the pimp of Serap as a madman. The man who doesn't have the job can't do it. One day when Serap finds his lover Hakan in a scene he never thought possible, his whole life is deeply shaken. Serap will now be in a different life, running for different purposes.

A woman who has grown estranged from her husband and is despairing of her life as a housewife takes a job as a sexworker after some initial hesitation. Since she performs her services in disguise, her anonymity is assured; but when her own husband suddenly seeks her services, the full extent of their marital misery is laid bare.

Jade and Effy exist in a paradox of determination to achieve authenticity while living a hedonistic lifestyle. In their time of desperation for money, they battle the male gaze, their own vices, and the relentless buzz of mass media.

Japan around 1860: popular courtesan Asagiri will be freed soon from her service, yet she cannot imagine any other existence. Until one day at a local festival, Asagiri meets the young artisan Hanjiro by chance – an encounter that changes her destiny. With a strong performance by leading actress Yumi ADACHI and exquisite camerawork and production design, A COURTESAN WITH FLOWERED SKIN succeeds in recalling the golden age of Japanese erotic film.

Haunted by the fear of becoming a "one-hit-wonder author," João grows increasingly anguished over his inability to produce a follow-up to his acclaimed debut novel. The young writer realizes he must break free from his self-imposed routine and venture beyond his comfort zone. In this pursuit, he forms an unlikely friendship with Breno, a free-spirited motorcyclist whose lifestyle couldn’t more different from João’s own. Their bond may just hold the key to unlocking the inspiration João needs to finally write his second book—and redefine his legacy.

During a night fueled by bravado and peer pressure, a lonely boy tries to prove he’s a “real man,” with devastating consequences.

Oscar, a young sex worker, spends the night with an older client who introduces him to GHB and promises care. As the drug takes hold, reality fractures and the bathroom transforms—until the night turns dangerous.

Based on a true story, this film immerses us in the life of Zoe, a young transsexual prostitute who, while living on the margins of society, she maintains an unbreaking hope for love and building a better future. Her journey, marked by violence, discrimination, and loneliness, finds a guiding light in Gina Rodríguez, a trans woman who takes for her the mantle of a maternal role, protecting her and teaching her how to endure in a hostile world. The fragile stability that Zoe had won breaks abruptly when Gina is brutally stabbed. This tragedy not only makes her face the pain of losing a loved one, but also makes Zoe rethink the meaning of her own life, trapped between fear, fury, and the need for justice.

Set over the course of seventeen hours, the lives of three young, queer, Indigenous sex workers intersect through chance, relation, and the shared experience of familial and colonial displacement.

Cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato's second comedy of the year, this silly softcore effort stars pretty Nao Kikuchi as a young married woman who takes a job at a call-girl agency with the mistaken belief that it is a maid service. After she is raped on her first assignment, Kikuchi is understandably shocked, but quickly warms to her new career and becomes quite the professional. Unfortunately, her husband soon discovers the true nature of her work.

During a lazy Montreal summer day, preteen Clara decides to master the art of walking in high-heel shoes. It would probably be an easier undertaking if she didn't have to take the dog, Eddie, along for the ride.

Set in Mexico City, Carlos Reygadas's sexually explicit drama centers on a man in turmoil over his past actions. Chauffer Marcos feels compelled to reveal a dark secret to his boss's daughter, Ana, a wealthy woman who works as a prostitute just for the thrill of it. Marcos confesses that he and his wife committed a crime that ended in horrible tragedy. Haunted by his past, Marcos searches for redemption.