SQIFF Schools: Out (CCA)
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 […]
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 […]
A gay Disabled teenage boy chooses to swap his body for that of a non-disabled cisgender woman, seeing this as the only way he can be loved. A deeply personal […]
Husein is a barber in Istanbul balancing life between his conservative family and his gay identity. Mahmoud is the founder of Syria’s LGBTI movement and a refugee living in Berlin. […]
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 […]
A behind-the-scenes look at the vibrant, fierce and ever-so-slightly chaotic world of one of the most dynamic drag scenes in China. Filmed in July 2017, Extravaganza covers the build-up behind a […]
After several years of pushing the queer porn filmmaking agenda in Scotland, SQIFF is delighted to be able to showcase some (sort of) homemade pornographic content. Bruce LaBruce creates a […]
Indulging our obsession with cutesy animals, we present a gay goldfish, genderqueer spotted hyena, an affair between a dorky fox and a hunky wolf, and a somewhat unfortunate cat. This […]
The most urgent issues surrounding identity and oppression revolve around bodies and borders. In Being Okey, a gay Nigerian man is denied asylum in Switzerland and consequently caught between the […]
An encounter with a strange funeral procession in Bethnal Green, a family losing the plot after meeting their son’s trans girlfriend, a middle-aged gay man seemingly eerily affected by a […]
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 […]