The seventh annual Scottish Queer International Film Festival will kick off on Wednesday 6 October with a night of new short films from some of Scotland’s finest LGBTQIA+ filmmaking talent. Featuring a poetic film in British Sign Language (Affirmation #6), selections from queer Black artists…
Scottish Queer International Film Festival has gone online with Sqifflix – a platform to enjoy free, accessible queer short films from the comfort of your own home! SQIFF has collected short films which have screened across their previous five festivals to create new programmes with…
The full programme has been announced for the fifth annual Scottish Queer International Film Festival! From 2 to 6 October, venues across Glasgow will host a packed programme of the best in independent film made for and by LGBTQIA+ people. Highlights at SQIFF 2019 include:…
We are pleased to announce that the winning film for this year’s Best Scottish Short competition was A Long Line of Glitter, created by Asten Holmes-Elliott alongside a community of LGBT 50+ people living in or around Glasgow. A Long Line of Glitter is a…
We are delighted to announce the winning films for the 2016 SQIFFies! The winner of SQIFF’s 2016 Best Scottish Short is Where We Are Now directed by Lucie Rachel and made as part of Scottish Documentary Institute’s Bridging the Gap programme. The award was this…
We have a number of lovely guests attending SQIFF 2016 and are looking for local people in Glasgow to host some of them in a spare room or sofa bed etc. If you live not too far from the centre of Glasgow and have a…
SQIFF 2016 will take place 29th September to 2nd October in Glasgow and we are recruiting for the following roles to help us make the Festival happen. To apply, please email your CV and a covering letter to helen@sqiff.org. We are committed to equality and…
SQIFF is back in 2016 with its second edition taking place 29th September to 2nd October in Glasgow! We are again offering a £500 commission for someone to make our Festival trailer and want you to send in your pitches. To be eligible you must…
Helen from SQIFF writes about WWII drama The Wedding Song, part of our Queer Women in Love season. A slightly left-field choice for SQIFF’s Queer Women in Love season, The Wedding Song (2008) doesn’t depict a straightforward romance or sexual relationship between women. Rather writer and…
Ciara Maguire previews SQIFF’s Queer Women in Love season. If, like me, you’ve been in a post-SQIFF comedown haze for the past month or so, you’ll be pretty pleased to hear about the Queer Women in Love season they have lined up this month. Throughout…