Category: 2026 WSXA Barcelona

(HONORABLE MENTION)

Original Film Title: The Heart of A Dominatrix

Director’s Name: Jay Lincal

Writer’s Name: Inanna Justice

Producer: Inanna Justice

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: English

Runtime: 57 minutes 36 seconds

Film Description:

The Heart of a Dominatrix is an intimate documentary that steps into the life and craft of Parisian Domme Inanna Justice. It lifts the velvet curtain of kink to reveal what truly drives the world of BDSM: consent, communication, and the beautifully tangled complexity of human desire.

With a subtle sense of humor and a sharp, skeptical gaze, the film follows Inanna as she prepares a scene, leads a workshop, and travels across Europe’s kink festivals. Through candid conversations with practitioners, viewers are invited to explore a world that is often judged from afar but rarely understood from within. Inanna opens the doors of her dungeon, The Justice Room, offering both a guided tour and a glimpse into a session with one of her submissives. Along the way, the film highlights the quiet, rigorous work behind each moment and all the invisible labor that makes mastery look effortless.

The journey culminates at France FemDom, where community, expertise, and creativity converge in a vibrant, celebratory gathering. The film closes on a note of connection, reminding us that domination is never about control for its own sake, but about the art of listening, shaping structure, and offering presence.

Playful yet profound, The Heart of a Dominatrix invites audiences to rethink power, intimacy, and what it means to live fully – and fearlessly – alive.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: Many Die Too Late

Director’s Name: Julian Bonnin

Writer’s Name: Julian Bonnin

Producer: Julian Bonnin

Country of Origin: Portugal

Country of Filming: Portugal

Language: Portuguese

Runtime: 1 hour 3 minutes 4 seconds

Film Description:

Julian believes he has already died inside. Between dirty rooms, cigarettes and casual encounters, he survives in a state of emotional drift. Until love — real or imagined — erupts, and life fills with bodies, voices, lights, and promises. But what seemed like salvation begins to crumble, revealing the asymmetry between what is offered and what one is willing to receive. With a mise-en-scène made of fragments: cats, trains, spilled wine, and music that invades without asking permission, Many Die Too Late is a film diary of enamorment and loss. It is not about narrating what happened, but about recording what burned in the instant when there was nothing left to save.

(FINALIST)

Original Film Title: SLUGS

Director’s Name: Anna Kushnerova

Writer’s Name: Anna Kushnerova

Producer: Anna Kushnerova

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: Italy

Language: English

Runtime: 3 minutes 24 seconds

Film Description:

Remaining open while receding is a complex configuration of attentional tones.

Allowing fluids to fling to the outside of a spiral turn, two slugs in the extatic moment of love making, Create spacial flesh.

Their bodies produce spaces for movements of desire. Slug and Human Eros entangled on multiple planes of immanence.

A passage through non-human perception systems.
Escapismically potent, dismissive of boundaries.
Sensuality-promoting scenes.
Accentuating: seedy glamour and insect temporality.
In-the-moment union for sharing pleasure.

(WINNER)

Original Film Title: Holy Water- Uncensored

Director’s Name: Alyssa Aparicio

Writer’s Name: Alyssa Aparicio

Producer: Alyssa Aparicio

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 31 seconds

Film Description:

Holy Water is a sacrilicious uncensored erotic music video. Devoted to the exploration and reclamation of a woman’s right to lust and overflow. Subverting the narrative of a woman’s pleasure as sinful into an assertion that blurs the line between the sacred and the profane.