Discussion: Queer Film In Focus
We invite a selection of the guests and filmmakers attending the Festival to share their experiences and thoughts on approaching queer film. Several panel discussions will look at different approaches […]
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Events for September 26, 2015
SQIFF Shorts: Escaping Into Common Places
A selection of short films by and about people who are trans, non-binary, and/or intersex. Trans and intersex bodies float under water, clash with western history, and get inked; a […]
A Gay Girl In Damascus: The Amina Profile
An online relationship between Montreal-based Sandra and Amina, a Syrian-American living in Damascus, takes a strange turn when Amina’s blog, claiming to represent a lesbian voice, goes silent and it […]
Alive!
Five men who are HIV positive take a week-long course preparing them for a solo parachute jump. As they embark on the challenge, they bond and share stories about sex […]
Scottish Transgender Alliance Presents: Something Must Break
Shy Sebastian is in the process of working out their gender identity when they meet and fall for rebellious Andreas. Trans-identifying director Ester Martin Bergsmark’s (She Male Snails) first fictional […]
Fabulous Femmes
SQIFF presents an investigation into all things femme. Documentary FtF: Female to Femme combines humour and personal history in celebrating queer femme identities, reimagining them as radical gender journeys. Screening […]
SQIFF Shorts: Cruising Utopia
Featuring work from the likes of Abigail Child and Kenneth Anger, this provocative programme of experimental shorts explores queerness by way of slippery, internal rhythms, wild embodiment, black leather, and […]
Leap Sports Scotland Presents: Scrum
An intimate look at the Sydney Convicts, a gay men’s rugby team in Australia. We follow their journey as individual members share their personal experiences as gay men whilst vying […]
Scottish Transgender Alliance Presents: Peace Of Mind
A document of the life of American artist Flo McGarrell, who lived in Haiti before his death in an earthquake which hit the country in 2010. Locals discuss Flo’s reception […]
Lock Up Your Mothers: What Have I Done To Deserve This?
The life of a housewife in 1980s Madrid according to director Pedro Almodóvar. Queer cinema icon Carmen Maura plays the put- upon Gloria, who lives in a small apartment with […]
SQIFF Shorts: Anxiety Sucks
Negotiating dating when you’re genderqueer; the repercussions of modern technology on your sex and love lives; being scared to hold hands in public; trying not to squish the tomatoes you’re […]
Lock Up Your Mothers: Desperate Living
Neurotic urban housewife Peggy Gravel goes on the run with her maid Grizelda after the latter smothers Peggy’s husband Bosley to death. The two are arrested by a cross-dressing policeman, […]
Lock Up Your Daughters
Previously long-running club night Lock Up Your Daughters don’t get back on the horse for just anyone but SQIFF has def piqued our interest. In celebration of its inaugural Festival, […]