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  • SQIFF 2018 Opening Night Shorts

    Glasgow Film Theatre 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    We kick off our 2018 edition with an exciting and boundary-pushing programme of contemporary LGBTQ+ shorts from around the world. Headlining is VISIBLE, created by Campbell X and Kayza Rose, who explore QTIPOC (queer trans intersex people of colour) histories, challenging mainstream perceptions and sanitisation of legacies, and celebrating complexity, multiplicity, myths, gossip, and legends.   We hope to welcome several of the filmmakers for a […]

    Free – £8

  • Workshop: Exploring LGBTQ Experiences of Sexual Violence

    Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    SQIFF partners with Forth Valley Rape Crisis Centre to offer an interactive workshop which explores the impacts of sexual violence on LGBTQ people, and considers how to improve the support available to the queer community from third sector feminist services. Discussion will focus on intersections of gender, sexuality, and sexual violence generally rather than talking […]

  • SQIFF Schools: Out (CCA)

    Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    So much of young people's experience of sexual and gender identity in the present day comes via the internet. However, the old pain and awkwardness of 'coming out' to friends and family remains the same. This new documentary from French director Denis Parrot combines the phenomenon of online queer culture with the intimacy of young people's […]

    Free

  • SQIFF Shorts: Picture This

    Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Filmmaker and vlogger Ross Wilcock presents short films building on his own video for BBC The Social, Online Dating with a Disability. Themes of ableism and anxiety around sex and dating are explored alongside joy in self-expression and claiming Queer and Disabled as an identity. Screening along with Ross’ own work are Sherren Lee’s The […]

  • Workshop: Creating Online Content with BBC The Social

    Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    BBC The Social is an award-winning digital team based at BBC Scotland creating online content and developing new creative talent. The channel has a strong focus on allowing LGBTQ+ contributors to take the lead when it comes to creating content that covers topics such as LGBTQI+ rights, dating when gay and disabled, and comedy through a […]

  • on the tips of our tongues

    Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    on the tips of our tongues intertwines artist film and sound works, readings and new writing. Concerned with illegible archives and embodied gestures this thing stems from Camara Taylor's ongoing practice based research project, wet blue embrace(s), which explores strategies and aesthetic practices amidst the Black Queer Atlantic.  Curated and presented by artist and researcher Camara Taylor. […]

  • Dykes, Camera, Action! + BOOM BUST: Feminist Filmmakers Blowing Up the Canon

    Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    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 about queerness. Filmmakers Barbara Hammer, Su Friedrich, Rose Troche, Cheryl Dunye, Yoruba Richen, Desiree Akhavan, Vicky Du, Jenni Olson, film critic B. Ruby Rich, and […]

    Free – £8

  • LEAP Sports Scotland presents: Light in the Water

    Scottish Youth Theatre The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    In 1982, soon after the first Gay Games was held in the US, 'West Hollywood Swim Club,' as it was known then, registered as the first openly gay masters swim and water polo club. This documentary follows the club’s battle for acceptance, from humble beginnings to its members becoming a renowned force fighting injustice in […]

    Free – £8

  • QWPS presents: Queer The Screen

    Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    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 February 2019 by 404 Ink. Experience a selection of stories and poems influenced by film and pop culture from some of the movers and shakers […]

  • Meet The SQIFF Programmers

    Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Your chance to meet some of the programmers behind the Festival, find out more about the process of finding and selecting films, and ask any questions you might have. As a community festival, we welcome feedback on our approach, so encourage those with thoughts and ideas on queer arts programming to come along and let […]