It was the day when you could decide for yourself what would happen from now on: your 18th birthday! Pink Apple is also celebrating its 18th edition and its coming of age, with an appropriate focus on films for adults. For once, we will be explicitly showing homosexual actions on film and screening exclusive art sex films with gay works by the Portuguese director Antonio da Silva and lesbian erotic films in form of a best-of programme from the Porn Film Festival Berlin. But we will also travel back to the sixties and remember a pioneer of gay porn, who only recently passed away: Peter de Rome. De Rome’s films were archived by the British Film Institute and are an important part of homosexual cultural heritage. A brand new documentary focuses on the life of this extraordinary man, who had a great influence on Andy Warhol and other pop artists.

Antonio da Silva will attend the festival and will be looking for new male faces for his newest project. More about this on our website. In addition, Paula Alamillo from the Porn Film Festival Berlin will present a selection of short films.

Pink Apple will be celebrating its birthday in Frauenfeld, where everything began in 1998. On this occasion there will be a panel in the Cinema Luna with a presentation of photos, documents and interviews from the beginning of the festival.