SCOTTISH QUEER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
SQIFF 2026 Festival: 19th-24th October
SQIFF 2026 – Call For Short Film Submissions Now Open Until 1st May 2026
We are open to short films (50 minutes and under). Films must have had people with lived LGBTQIA+ experience involved in the production. We will prioritise films made by people/communities with typically less access to film industries. For example Black and PoC, Deaf, Disabled, working class, and refugee and immigrant filmmakers.
Submission fees are on a Pay What You Can basis. Please choose the submission fee you are able to afford. If you are able to pay to submit your film, we very much appreciate this as it helps support the most marginalised and exploited queer communities to submit their films and attend our Festival. If you need to submit your film for free, that’s completely fine, and we will treat your submission the same as everyone else’s. Please email us at [email protected] to get a fee waiver code.
The Pay What You Can price options for short films are £50, £40, £30, £20, £10, £5, or free fee waiver.
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The funding landscape for the arts has been really precarious lately, and that’s why on top of our PayPal one-off donations, we decided to start a Patreon for SQIFF to support our year-round programme of activities. Your support via this Patreon as well as PayPal one-off donations will play a key role in securing SQIFF’s long-term future and ensure that we continue to run!
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