Want to know what funding and training opportunities are out there to help get your next project made? Join the Queer Filmmaker's Group for a presentation on various short film talent initiatives across Scotland and the UK, including Screen Scotland's Talent Builder’s Take Three, NFTS’ Sean Connery Talent Lab, Scottish Documentary Institute’s Bridging the […]
**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening.** We cordially invite you to our Opening Night event, Scottish Shorts 1. This event showcases the outstanding talent of queer filmmakers here in our homeland, Scotland. Before we embark on a week exploring […]
Got a film idea you've been waiting to share with the world? Join us for our third SQIFF Film Pitch, an opportunity to get your film idea out in front of an audience and guest judges at the 2026 festival. The two winning pitches will be awarded £500 each to be used towards the […]
**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening.** Hand-scratched Super 8, neon ink bleeding across film strips, torn paper fragments, found footage, and reclaimed archives brought back to life. Collaged is a celebration of tactile experimental filmmaking. Blurring the boundaries […]
**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening.** Scottish queer cinema goes DIY with 9 world premieres of subversive and irreverent shorts made in this years' SQIFF queer filmmaking course: SATURATE. Positioning queer filmmaking in Scotland as cinematic counterculture, SATURATE […]
**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening.** Telepathy, psychic yearning, ghostly cruising…. And that’s just the first date. Join us to explore the intuitive and psychic nature of sapphic relationships, where lust is mythic and dreaming is half the […]
Step into the shadows with Nighttime, a trio of films exploring the eerie creatures, uncanny encounters, and mysterious worlds that emerge after dark. Blending live action and 3D animation, these works present unsettling figures, haunting silences, and an ominous sense that anything could happen. Moving between familiar Glaswegian backdrops and more distant, imagined realms, […]
**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening.** This screening showcases compelling short documentaries all under 12 minutes in length. It proves that big, powerful stories can be told in even the tiniest films. From intimate personal portraits and participatory […]
Amanda and Caio are a T4T couple who have shared seven years of love and dreams. When they finally decide to move in together, the intimacy of daily life begins to expose their differences. Caio, romantic and idealistic, longs for emotional stability and a future built together while working at a radio station. Amanda, […]
**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening.** What happens when a feeling takes hold of the body and refuses to loosen its grip? Moving between love, memory, erotic experimentation, body horror and public scrutiny, these films explore the ways queer […]
