NIÑXS (Inverness)

Eden Court Bishops Road, Inverness, United Kingdom

In the rural small town of Tepoztlán, Mexico, fifteen-year-old Karla gets to tell her own coming-of-age story as she navigates the joys and complexities of trans adolescence. Irresistibly warm and funny, NIÑXS bursts the seams of documentary convention by dissolving the distance between filmmaker and subject. Director Kani Lapuerta and Karla reflect together on their […]

Free – £20

SQIFF 2025 Opening Night Scottish Shorts – SOLD OUT

The Social Hub The Social Hub, Candleriggs Square, Glasgow

**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening. We are operating a waiting list for sold out events on the platform Ticket Tailor, where we sell our tickets for SQIFF 2025 – please add your name to the waitlist and you'll be notified […]

Free – £20

Scottish Shorts 1

The Boardwalk The Boardwalk, 105 Brunswick St, Glasgow

We are once again back with an opening event celebrating Scottish queer cinema! This screening exclusively contains short films by artists based in Scotland. The selected short films highlight the diversity of LGBTQIA+ films being made right here in Scotland. Before we spend the week enjoying cinematic treats from across the globe, let’s take a […]

Free – £20

How We Loved, How We Broke

The Boardwalk The Boardwalk, 105 Brunswick St, Glasgow

Love arrives in many forms, and heartbreak rarely leaves without a trace. How We Loved, How We Broke brings together six short films that explore intimacy, longing, separation, and survival. Each story reveals a different facet of queer connection, from fleeting encounters and deep ruptures to surreal escapes and quiet acts of care. Spanning cities, […]

Free – £20

Scottish Shorts 2

The Boardwalk The Boardwalk, 105 Brunswick St, Glasgow

Returning for another year at the festival, Scottish Shorts 2 is a bold and intimate programme of short films by queer filmmakers working across Scotland. This selection continues to explore the queer Scottish experience through stories shaped by displacement, desire, care, survival, and play. These films move between personal documentary, narrative storytelling, and experimental textures. […]

Free – £20

NO PRIDE IN GENOCIDE

The Boardwalk The Boardwalk, 105 Brunswick St, Glasgow

“I’ve always imagined you and me sitting out in the sun, hand in hand, free at last. We spoke of all the places we would go if we could. Yet you are gone now. If I had known the bombs falling around us would take you from me, I would have told the world how […]

Free – £20

A Nova Era

The Boardwalk The Boardwalk, 105 Brunswick St, Glasgow

Curated in collaboration with Mostra Queer Brasil, this vibrant programme of short films offers a window into queer life and imagination across Brazil. From poetic documentary to sci-fi, magical realism to tender coming-of-age, the selection celebrates how fluidity, resistance, and reinvention shape queer identities and experiences in Brazilian contexts. These stories reflect a country where […]

Free – £20

For Real?

The Boardwalk The Boardwalk, 105 Brunswick St, Glasgow

Did that really happen? What kind of world are we living in? 'For Real' explores sci-fi worlds, dark fantasies, technological possibilities and shocking but real science and history. Expect alienesque costumes, body scanners, crocodile chromosomes and lesbian telepathy. This screening will be followed by a performance from Carle Gent and Linda Stupart exploring the world […]

Free – £20

Squad Goals

The Boardwalk The Boardwalk, 105 Brunswick St, Glasgow

There's strength in numbers, packs, families, squads or whatever you call them. Squad Goals celebrates chosen families with a vibrant sense of identity and culture. The screening consists of three films documenting some very different squads. These are trans footballers, Brazilian beach vendors and leather gays. The screening will be followed by an informal Q&A […]

Free – £20

Legacies

GMAC Film 103 Trongate, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

What shapes us? How do the stories of our families, the legacies we inherit, and the struggles of those before us live on in who we become? Legacies brings together films that gently unravel the complex and often tender realities of queer upbringings. These stories speak to the love, pain, hope, and resilience woven through […]

Free – £20
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