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Begana x SQIFF Joyland + Discussion Group SOLD OUT

June 10, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Free
A night scene of a man holding a large cut out of a woman whilst riding a moped across a bridge.

As the Ranas – a happily patriarchal joint family – yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for an ambitious trans starlet.

Their impossible love story slowly illuminates the entire Rana family’s desire for a sexual rebellion.

Discussion Group

After the screening, there will be a discussion group facilitated by Nat Raha to decompress together and unpack the themes and topics explored in the film.

Please note that the discussion group is exclusively for anyone who is a person of colour (POC) or identifies as LGBTQ+.

About Nat Raha

Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar, a South Asian British trans queer femme, and a Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Her books of poetry include Of sirens, Body & Faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018) and Apparitions (nines) (Winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize, forthcoming 2024). Recent critical and creative writing appears in Queer Print in Europe, 100 Queer Poems, Transgender Marxism, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, and Third Text (‘Imagining Queer Europe then and now’, 2021). With Mijke van der Drift, Nat co-edits Radical Transfeminism zine, and is currently co-authoring a book Trans Femme Futures: An Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (forthcoming, 2024).

Ticketing

The ticketing link for this event will be shared first with South Asian and queer communities to ensure that they have priority access. However, if you are a member of these communities and interested in attending the screening and have not received the ticketing link, please contact our Box Office [email protected].

This screening is presented by Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) in collaboration with Begana: Musing on Queer South Asian Stories (programmed by Neha Apsara).

Tickets are FREE. To book, click here

 

Accessibility:

This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.

Punjabi and Urdu audio with English language captions.

Quiet Space available.

Audio Description available.

Induction Loop available.

126 minutes long.

We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact [email protected].

We ask that you wear a mask if possible and please don’t attend the screening if you have any symptoms of Covid-19 or have been in recent contact with a confirmed case. Surgical masks will be available for free by the Quiet Space.

If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch with us at [email protected].

Details

Date:
June 10, 2023
Time:
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Organizer

SQIFF

Venue

Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow, G2 3JD United Kingdom
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0141 352 4900
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