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 is transformed when her mum introduces her to the Vagine Regime, an international collective of queer roller derby players. A moving portrait of the positive […]
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 on the watershed alliance between queers and striking Welsh miners. The story depicted was the inspiration for the movie Pride. A mystery feature length film […]
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 UK organisation for LGBT Muslim people describe the group’s history, and two football players give their best pantomime performance of heterosexuality... A selection of shorts […]
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 cyborgs, ghosts, a gang of roller derby girls, ninjas, and an evil billionaire who tries to thwart their every move. SQIFF proudly presents the UK […]
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. When newcomer Nalin arrives in their village, Sarasi falls for him but so, in the end, does Chamath. Social pressures weigh on all three, increasing […]
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 a focus alongside their involvement in LGBT activism and their relationship with age. A beautiful testimony on the experience of aging as a queer woman. […]
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, its performances have explored sexuality, beauty, and the disabled body. We’re screening Sins Invalid’s shorts Disability Justice for Palestine, Sins Invalid: an Unashamed Claim to […]
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 Hamburg art gallery where audiences pay to watch sadomasochistic performances. The boundaries between Wanda’s personal and professional lives blur as three people vie for her […]
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 filmmaking as a kind of weapon? Reversing gender clichés, pushing boundaries, and empowering. And can we get off on that?! Join us for an evening […]
