Festival Splash ! 2026 | Regards croisés sur le désir

Tuesday, 22 September 2026 · 8:30 p.m.

Editorial

Short films evoking our contemporary sexualities, whether conventional or singular, with the 2026 edition focused on humor. Drawing on literature, theater, digital arts and documentary, these films boldly reveal unsettling intimacies.

Les Seins

by Emma Chevalier | 2025 | France | 6 min

A couple starts making a sex tape, but she has a question, and he does not know the answer.

Des Majorettes dans l’espace

by David Fourier | 1996 | France | 6 min

Dimitri, the Soviet cosmonaut of Soyuz 27, likes majorettes. Catherine and Laurent like making love. Pope John Paul II likes airports. Vincent likes boys.

The Secret Afternoon of Patachtouille & Lolla Wesh

by Claudius Pan | 2018 France | 18 min

Two drag queens meet in an apartment to have an erotic tattoo done.

She and Her Good Vibrations

by Olivia Griselda & Sarah Cheok | 2023 | South Korea | 11 min

A stressed middle-aged woman discovers the wonders of a vibrator, but quickly becomes addicted to her solo pleasure sessions and loses touch with reality.

Playground

by Matej Longer & Richard Dömös | 2025 | Slovakia | 8 min

A surreal film drawing on time-lapse and imagery from the BDSM world.

Plus Travailler

by Yves-Marie Mahé | 2008 | France | 2 min

“Work is the best police” (Nietzsche). And what about sex workers?

La Bifle

by Jean-Baptiste Saurel | 2012 | France | 25 min

Francis is the owner of a video rental store whose success is due to the films of Ti-Kong, a kung-fu star and neck-breaker. Self-conscious about the size of his penis, Francis cannot bring himself to confess his feelings to Sonia, his employee. But when she is offered a role in Evil Nurse, Ti-Kong’s latest film, Francis will have to regain his sexual confidence to save Sonia from a terrible danger: La Bifle!

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