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LGBT Health & Wellbeing Community Filmmaking

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

LGBT Health & Wellbeing is a charity promoting the health, wellbeing, and equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Scotland and providing support, services, and information. Two of the organisation’s groups have recently created collectively-made short films, which we will showcase at this event. Return to the Closet? was created as part of […]

Free – £8
A black man sits on a subway carriage seat. He has short black hair, his eyes are closed, he holds a white cane, and he wears a dark jacket.

Vision Portraits

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

Vision Portraits is a vivid and hypnotic exploration by filmmaker Rodney Evans illuminating the compelling stories of four visually impaired artists - photographer John Dugdale, dancer Kayla Hamilton, writer Ryan Knighton, and the filmmaker himself. Evans contrasts their journeys with his own personal and professional one as a filmmaker gradually losing his vision and as […]

Free – £8
A black woman - Janelle Monae - is in close up looking just beyond the camera. She has black hair in pigtails and wears multi-coloured eye make-up, bright red lipstic, and a pearl collar. Just behind her another black woman can be seen. They are both sitting in an open top car.

We Are Parable presents: Dirty Computer: An Emotion Picture by Janelle Monae

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

As part of their season “The Art of the Black Visual Album” We Are Parable partner with SQIFF to present a special screening of Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer visual album or, as she calls it, “emotion picture.” Set in a dystopian nightmare, Jane 57821 (played by Monae) is being subjected to having her memories removed or […]

Free – £8
Black and white close up of a black man, Jason Holliday, gazing directly at the camera with a sly perhaps annoyed look. He has short black hair and glasses, and holds a cigarette in his hand.

Black History Month: Portrait of Jason

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

Portrait of Jason shows sex worker and entertainer, Jason Holliday, recounting his life story for filmmaker Shirley Clarke. Jason is the sole on-screen presence in the film. He narrates his life story to the camera, behind which Clarke and her partner at the time, actor Carl Lee, provoke and berate Jason with increasing hostility as […]

Free

An all red background with 'Quiet Heroes' and 'Sundance' written in white letters and two barely sketched white figures in white.

Quiet Heroes with Glasgow Zine Library

Glasgow Zine Library 636 Cathcart Road, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Join us for a screening of Quiet Heroes at Glasgow Zine Library's new space in the Southside of Glasgow. Quiet Heroes documents one doctor’s fight against stigma, shame, and ignorance through the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the heartland of America’s west. This screening is part of Glasgow Zine Library’s ‘Making History’ film programme, which […]

£3 – £5

Grainy image of two men standing in front of book shelves. They both have short blonde hair. One wears a demin jacket and is crossing his arms and smiling. The other wears a black jacket with collar turned up and is looking to the side.

SQIFF Shorts: Out of the Archives!

As part of LGBT History Month Scotland 2020, SQIFF presents a programme of short films looking back into largely unseen and undiscovered aspects of the history of queer Scottish representation in the 20th century. Featuring archival documentaries and short films by queer filmmakers, screenings will be accompanied by discussions examining whether these films are a […]

A black man sits on a subway carriage seat. He has short black hair, his eyes are closed, he holds a white cane, and he wears a dark jacket.

Sqifflix: Vision Portraits

Vision Portraits is a vivid and hypnotic exploration by filmmaker Rodney Evans illuminating the compelling stories of four visually impaired artists – photographer John Dugdale, dancer Kayla Hamilton, writer Ryan Knighton, and the filmmaker himself. Evans contrasts their journeys with his own personal and professional one as a filmmaker gradually losing his vision and as […]

Free – £8

Still from the film Queering the Script in which two white people standing in a hall at a fan convention hold up a sign which reads, "LGBT fans deserve better."

All The Feels!: Ultimate Queer Fanvid Playlist

Fanvids are short films using music, edited by fans in an expression of all the feels around their favourite fandoms. Even with today’s films and television bursting with more queer characters than ever, we still fight for true recognition, representation, and stories that go beyond the sometimes disappointing and limiting storylines we are given. Every […]

Free
Four people are in a moving, open topped car with their hands in the air, smiling and shouting in a celebratory way.

SQIFF 2020 Opening Film: Pride & Protest

Pride & Protest is a documentary about QTIPOC communities and activists in Britain today and struggles surrounding the politics of desire, self-care, and found family. In the wake of the Birmingham protests against LGBTIQ+ relationship education in primary schools, director Blaise Singh follows various queer people of colour as they challenge homophobia and racism in […]

Free – £8
Two Black men are naked from the waist up in front of a white sheet with sketches of rocket and other items on it. One has an arm around the other's shoulder and they both look directly at the camera.

Watch Party: Tongues Untied

In his own words, Marlon Riggs aimed to shatter the “nation’s brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference” with his 1989 film Tongues Untied. A challenging and captivating work, many of Riggs’ key messages still resonate with the Black queer experience in the USA and Europe. Screening with Beyond 'There's always a black […]

Free – £8
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