{"id":2917,"date":"2026-07-02T12:37:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:37:46","slug":"erotic-film-meets-doc-in-my-friend-the-porn-star-to-be-or-not-to-be-seen-that-is-the-question-exclusive-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2917","title":{"rendered":"Erotic Film Meets Doc in \u2018My Friend the Porn Star\u2019: To Be or Not to Be Seen\u2026 That Is the Question (Exclusive Trailer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>What do you get when you cross a documentary with the world of pornography? Well, Austrian writer-director Rosa Friedrich (<em>Wander<\/em>) has done it, and the hybrid doc result is called <em>My Friend the Porn Star<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2915\">From Proton Packs to Canon-Building: \u2018Ghostbusters\u2019 Eyes Its Own \u2018Clone Wars\u2019 Moment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are scratching your head in confusion now, let me back up and explain. <em>My Friend the Porn Star<\/em>, from Vienna-based production company Kacerovsky (formerly known as ostblok), will world premiere in the Proxima competition program of the\u00a060th edition\u00a0of the\u00a0Karlovy Vary\u00a0International\u00a0Film Festival\u00a0(KVIFF)\u00a0on Tuesday, July 7.<\/p>\n<p>The film was produced\u00a0by\u00a0Dominic Spitaler\u00a0for\u00a0Austria\u2019s\u00a0Kacerovsky. Laura Ettel is the director of photography\u00a0on <em>My Friend the Porn Star<\/em>, while the editor\u00a0is Melanie Schmidt. New Docs is handling sales, with Stadtkino Filmverleih being the\u00a0distributor\u00a0in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>In case you worry about telling friends you are going to see a new film but feeling embarrassed to mention its title, maybe this will put you at ease. Friedrich was never that interested in porn, according to press notes for <em>My Friend the Porn Star<\/em>. That is, until her friend Timo expressed the wish to star in an \u201cartistic erotic film.\u201d So, the friend that Rosa is agrees to help him get a movie project off the ground, find a co-star and document the process along the way.<\/p>\n<p>You probably know that this is the time when either another shoe drops, or clothes drop. Well, could it maybe be both!? \u201cThe closer it gets to the shooting date, the more Timo feels embarrassed and doubtful about having involved himself in the first place,\u201d a summary on the KVIFF website teases. What\u2019s Rosa to do? Easy! \u201cHis face is ultimately replaced with the help of AI, and Rosa, together with a dominatrix, three trans women, a\u00a0food-porn creator,\u00a0a sex coach and other protagonists, continues with the film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or as press notes for <em>My Friend the Porn Star<\/em> say about Timo: \u201cHis last-minute withdrawal turns the project into a collective experiment about desire, visibility and the fear of being seen.\u201d After all, it leaves Rosa with a camera full of footage and a lot of questions. <\/p>\n<p>Embracing his decision, and AI, the filmmaker \u201cturns his withdrawal into the film\u2019s central theme: the desire to be seen versus the urge to hide,\u201d highlight the press materials. Rewatching her material, it becomes clear that this conflict isn\u2019t Timo\u2019s alone. The participants in the auditions for Timo\u2019s sex film also move between curiosity, self-determination and doubt. Rosa invites them to reshape the film together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2913\">Locarno Kids Screenings\u00a0Unveiled as Swiss Fest Launches Competition\u00a0and Kids\u2019 Jury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among what promises to be a colorful cast of characters we meet in the movie are the likes of Alice Moe alias Eric Big Clit.\u00a0Or as the press notes mention: \u201cWhat follows is a collective experiment: a dominatrix, three trans women, a non-binary food-porn creator, a stylist, an actress, a sex coach and a chef each bring their own vision of eroticism to the project. Moving between playful enactment and intimate documentary, a humorous film emerges that constantly reinvents itself \u2013 just like its protagonists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friedrich shares this in a director\u2019s statement: \u201cI never expected to find myself caught up in the making of a porn film. But when Timo \u2013 my friend\u2019s stage name \u2013 told me about his long-held dream of making an artistic sex film with himself in the lead role, the story wouldn\u2019t let me go. As we started working together, I realized I was less interested in whether Timo\u2019s film would actually get made than in what would happen along the way. What fascinated me was the contradiction at the heart of it: the desire to be seen, and the fear of being judged for it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>And the writer-director recalls: \u201cWhen Timo dropped out, I decided to stay with the material and find a new way in. That led me to anonymize his footage with AI and to continue the film as a collective process, shaped by the different perspectives of the people who came to the castings. In the end, the film became a result with its own purpose: not a provocation, but an invitation to think differently about visibility, shame and self-protection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If what you have read so far doesn\u2019t quite tickle your fancy, <em>THR<\/em> can exclusively premiere the trailer, the ultimate tease, so to speak, for <em>My Friend the Porn Star<\/em> right here. Meet Rosa and Timo as they explore what people find sexy. Just to be extra safe, you may not want to watch this one in a public space\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2911\">Edinburgh\u2019s Paul Ridd on Robert Redford\u2019s Legacy, Hollywood\u2019s Festival Sit-Out, and the \u2018Obsession\u2019 Phenomenon: \u201cI Did Not See That Coming\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Karlovy Vary 2026 film trailer for &#039;My Friend the Porn Star&#039; by Rosa Friedrich from Austria teases a documentary about making erotic movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,945,1213],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-international","tag-karlovy-vary-international-film-festival","tag-kviff-2026"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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