2009 Fetish Film Festival Winners

Flemish filmmaker Erik Lamens‘ SM-rechter / SM Judge (above) was chosen the best narrative feature at the 2009 Fetish Film Festival, held in the northern German city of Kiel from Oct. 29-31.
Inspired by a true story, Lamens’ SM Judge tells the story of Belgian judge Koen Aurousseau, who, as per Flanders Today, "was accused of physical assault and incitement to prostitution" in 1997. Following his conviction, Aurousseau found himself mired in a deep emotional and financial hole; his only source of support was his wife, Magda, the person who’d initially asked him to get involved in S&M sex practices.
“I heard on TV the other day that this is ‘the most controversial film of the year,’ Lamens is quoted [...]

Fetish Film Festival 2009

Modern Love Is Automatic by Zach Clark (top); The Pawn Layman by Frank-Peter Lenze (bottom)

Kiel’s Fetish Film Festival, which runs from Oct. 29-31 at the Traum-Kino in the northern German city, prides itself in presenting "the best in Fetish and BDSM" cinema.
Among the 2009 festival’s screening films are Zach Clark’s Modern Love Is Automatic, which follows a nurse (Melodie Sisk) working on the side as a professional dominatrix while facing some serious issues with her mattress-selling, supermodel-wannabe roommate (Maggie Ross); Frank-Peter Lenze’s short comedy The Pawn Layman, in which Katharina Wackernagel plays a professional Mistress who makes good (or bad?) use of a young man in desperate need of money; and Nick Broomfield’s 1996 documentary Fetishes, in [...]