SQIFF 2023 Opening Night Scottish Shorts – SOLD OUT

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

  **Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening. CCA Box Office are operating a waiting list for sold out events – please contact them directly to be added to this!** Starting the festival, as always, we have ’Scottish Shorts’. The screening exclusively …

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Free – £10

Are you into emotional edging?

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

  Join us for a journey of conscious and unconscious thoughts. This screening features distinct experimental shorts made by trans and non-binary people that focuses on the varied ways our community tell stories of forming and navigating relationships, both digitally and in real life.  The films in this programme utilise archival footage, found footage, digital …

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Free – £10

Begana

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

  Begana is bringing you more films from the South Asian queer diaspora! Combining hidden stories, politics with joy and queer loving, come watch films from Rohan Kanawade's drama U for Usha, in which a single mother and a farm labourer in rural India who feels drawn to a female teacher of a local primary …

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Fleeting Love

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

  ‘Fleeting Love’ is a collection of short films that capture brief (but tender) romantic encounters. Expect sepia-toned super 8 clips, wind blowing through long hair, lustful stares and tugs on your heartstrings.  The pace of the films in the selection ebbs and flows with runtimes ranging from 3 to 20 minutes. Films such as …

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Queer East Presents: Alien Body, Human Dreams

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

  A series of cinematic investigations that centre the body as a potent site of hybridity, rejecting false divisions of man/woman, human/animal/alien, self/other to construct their own embodied, multifaceted ways of being. Artists in this programme purposefully employ queering as a technique to misread, re-appropriate, and puncture the systems of power projected onto the body. …

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Sex Change: Shock! Horror! Probe! with TGirlsonFilm

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

  Thatcherite Britain, 1989 and transexuals are fighting back. Cabaret star, Adele Anderson is facing a transphobic backlash after being cruelly outed by the press. Meanwhile in Manchester, Stephanie Anne Lloyd is a successful trans business woman selling gender affirming products to a huge cross dressing clientele, with shoulder pads and gusto. The European Court …

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Free – £10

Building Community with LGBT Unity

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

  In the summer of 2023, SQIFF and LGBT Unity hosted filmmaking workshops for queer asylum seekers and refugees. The workshops were facilitated by filmmakers Campbell X and Ambroise of Paradax Period, and focused on not only storytelling, filming and editing, but also building community and creating accessible ways to make films. In this screening, …

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Free – £10

Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean with TGirlsonFilm

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

  Five girlies reunite at a five-and-dime for the 20th anniversary of James Dean's death. They all gossip and process where life has led them over a cup of coffee, the film features five female leads, one of which is Cher and another is a glamorous transexual. Based on a play and directed by Robert …

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Animation Now

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

  ‘Animation Now’ celebrates a new generation of queer animators. The programme includes both 2D and 3D animation in the form of narrative shorts, experimental art film and an immersive game walkthrough.  The screening starts with the heartfelt 3D animation Dear Nana telling the story of the narrator’s late grandmother who was a supportive figure …

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Queer East Presents: Peafowl 공작새

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

  Shin-myung is a transgender woman and dancer who competes in waacking. Having cut ties with her family and rural hometown, Shin-myung seeks various ways to fund her gender reassignment surgery. But one day, she is informed that her estranged father, a master of Nongak folk music, has died. He stipulated that Shin-myung can receive …

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