Erotica 2022

Sex in the head or sexual tension on a train, marriages gone stale, without sex, and the constant rediscovery of physicality and intimacy. And also powerful fantasies of revenge against the "male pigs" and their obscene world; this omnibus film offers a wide range of perspectives on female perceptions of erotic or sexual desire, at times socially critical, at others personal, softly spoken even, and even radical. The directors, Kasia Adamik, Olga Chajdas, Anna Jadowska, Anna Kazejak and Jagoda Szelc, number amongst the créme de la créme of new Polish cinema and offer, in the form of their feminist discourse, a change of perspective in the language of love. Their works move us in the most intimate of ways without, however, coming across as pornographic at any point. In Poland this short film compilation was one of the first art-house productions to be made available on Netflix.