Bixa Travesty (Tranny Fag)
The rock documentary and political manifesto Bixa Travesty depicts the life of Brazilian musician and spoken word artist Linn da Quebrada, a self-proclaimed ‘tranny fag,’ who uses her body and […]
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Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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SQIFF Shorts: Overcome
Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United KingdomStrong narratives of queer characters who are occasionally overcome but mostly do the overcoming are contained in this programme of gutsy shorts. A trans man is bullied when his gender […]
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Queer Arab Lives: Mr Gay Syria
Kinning Park Complex 40 Cornwall Street, Glasgow, United KingdomHusein 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. […]
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SQIFF Shorts: Picture This
Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United KingdomFilmmaker 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 […]
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East Asian Focus: Extravaganza + shorts
Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United KingdomA 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 […]
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SQIFF Shorts: Floofy Friends
Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United KingdomIndulging 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 […]
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SQIFF Shorts: Bodies and Borders
Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United KingdomThe 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 […]
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A Girl At My Door
Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United KingdomPromising police cadet Young-nam is sent to work in a small seaside village after her lesbian relationship is outed to her bosses in Seoul. Here, she meets a bullied teenager, Sun […]
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SQIFF Shorts: Weird and Wild
Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United KingdomAn 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 […]
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SQIFF Shorts: Queer Arab Lives
Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United KingdomA series of shorts that reveal the social intricacies of queer Arab life. Nazem, a genderqueer Egyptian-Iraqi drag-queen, prepares for a performance informed by childhood memories of her mother. A […]