Rainbow Families on Film
Outside the Box, Rainbow Families, and SQIFF team up to present an evening of short films plus discussion on the theme of LGBTQ+ families. We’ll be thinking about being an […]
Outside the Box, Rainbow Families, and SQIFF team up to present an evening of short films plus discussion on the theme of LGBTQ+ families. We’ll be thinking about being an […]
After several years of pushing the queer porn filmmaking agenda in Scotland, SQIFF is delighted to be able to showcase some (sort of) homemade pornographic content. Bruce LaBruce creates a […]
The most urgent issues surrounding identity and oppression revolve around bodies and borders. In Being Okey, a gay Nigerian man is denied asylum in Switzerland and consequently caught between the […]
An encounter with a strange funeral procession in Bethnal Green, a family losing the plot after meeting their son’s trans girlfriend, a middle-aged gay man seemingly eerily affected by a […]
Lesbians didn't always get to see themselves on screen. But between Stonewall, the feminist movement, and the experimental cinema of the 1970s, they built visibility, and transformed the social imagination […]
Queer Words Project Scotland presents a preview of some of the stories and poems featured in We Were Always Here, an anthology of weird, queer Scottish writing being published in […]
We are excited to bring Berlin-based actor and performer Bishop Black to SQIFF to present a retrospective of his amazing and varied work. Bishop has worked with some of the […]
We are putting on an autism-friendly screening of our Opening Night Shorts programme. Autism-friendly screenings are designed to make the cinema more inclusive and accessible for people with sensory sensitivities, […]
Sold Out - we can't guarantee but there's a good chance of returns if you come on the night 15 minutes before the event We launch the Festival with a stellar […]
Romantic relationships can be tough. SQIFF offers up an alternative to punching walls and texting your ex when pished with these shorts from the heart - as in stomping all […]