In the Turn (Erica Tremblay, 2013) follows 10 year old Crystal, who's been banned from taking part in sports at her school because she's trans. Facing bullying and isolation, Crystal's life […]
Special Pride hangover Dive In movie! SQIFF is teaming up with DIVE Queer Party in Edinburgh to present a special screening of Dancing in Dulais, a short documentary from 1985 […]
A gay man seeks asylum in the Czech Republic and must endure an absurd entry exam, a genderqueer woman confronts society’s prejudices when she shaves her head, members of a […]
A failed lesbian rock group try to revive their fortunes by travelling to a Battle of the Bands competition in the big city. Along the way, they must fend off […]
Frangipani depicts a love triangle between three young people in a small village in Sri Lanka. Chamath is trying to avoid a traditional marriage and is drawn to free-spirited Sarasi. […]
In Madrid and Paris, Boti, Empar, Micheline, and Jocelyne, four lesbian women in their seventies, talk about their fears and desires. Their sex and love lives past and present are […]
Films about activism and films as activism. Sins Invalid is a performance project incubating and celebrating artists with disabilities, centralising artists of colour and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, […]
Loosely inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s (after whom ‘masochism’ is named) book Venus in Furs, filmmakers Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch’s take features a dominatrix called Wanda, who runs a […]
Is it possible to make ‘feminist porn’? By creating and watching pornography that challenges the ingrained sexual stereotypes of the mainstream adult film industry, can we use this sexually radical […]
A selection of short films by and about people who are trans, non-binary, and/or intersex. Trans and intersex bodies float under water, clash with western history, and get inked; a […]
