Coming of Age – by Porn Film Festival Amsterdam
June is Pride Month, commemorating the Stonewall uprising. The Stonewall riots began in the early hours of June 28, 1969, when patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York City's Greenwich Village resisted a police raid, sparking several days of protests. This uprising is widely considered the catalyst for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, leading directly to the first Pride march on June 28, 1970. To honour the Queer history with celebrations, reflection, and activism, Kissable Screens, a monthly sex positive screening of Cavia, will recall films that were presented at Porn Film Festival Amsterdam 2026.
Stories of transition. Stories of becoming. This block explores thresholds: the before and after moments that crack something open. Coming of age isn’t bound to youth or tied to outdated ideas of purity, nor to a mainstream porn category or religious initiation. It can happen at any time, in countless forms. These films trace self-discovery, sexual awakenings, escapes from what was, returns to the self and the unstable in-between spaces where identity is still forming.