SQIFF Shorts: Bodies and Borders
2018-12-07 12:00 - 13:20 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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 constant fear of being sent home and hope of a life in safety. ABEO is an animation by Latinx artist Brenda M. Lopez Zepeda depicting the journey of two immigrants risking their lives to cross the Arizona desert. My Shoreline is an experimental film-poem about a disabled queer body in water, and My Own Wings documents intersex people from around the world. Working class queer bodies and class borders are forefronted in Krissy Mahan’s All in a Day’s Work and the implication of supposed sexual boundaries is explored in Patricia Silva’s bisexual ode, A Feeling More Than a Picture. Finally, legendary lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer’s new short, Evidentiary Bodies, is a plea for empathy and compassion generated through the viewing of other beings.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in English and Spanish languages with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Films are mixed with some relying on visual material to convey ideas and some using more dialogue. The majority are English language. So, the event is relatively accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Being Okey (34m)
Dir: Nadia Lanfranchi, Nina Oppliger, Corinne Pfister, Year: 2017
Nigerian Okey describes seeking asylum in Switzerland after narrowly escaping death when a mob tried to kill him because he is gay.
My Shoreline (4m)
Dir. Aimee Louw, Year: 2016
Attempting to reach the Saint Laurence River boardwalk in Montreal proves to be an impossible task for Aimee in this film-poem on the everyday trials of a Disabled queer.
ABEO (7m)
Dir. Brenda M. Lopez Zepeda, Year: 2018
A hard-hitting mixed media animated short that depicts the journey of Nadia and Lupe, two immigrants who risked their lives to cross the Arizona desert in search of a better life.
My Own Wings (8m)
Dir. Katia Repina, Year: 2018
My Own Wings is a transmedia project that aims to explore intersex identity.
All in a Day’s Work (10m)
Dir. Krissy Mahan & Patricia Silva, Year: 2018
All in a Day’s Work is a series of vignettes about two working class queers who each present as women.
Evidentiary Bodies (9m)
Dir. Barbara Hammer, Year: 2018
A one screen version of an originally three screen immersion exploring illness, time, and the isolation of the material body.
A Feeling More Than a Picture (5m)
Dir. Patricia Silva, Year: 2017
A queer reordering of cinematic gestures, A Feeling More Than a Picture is a formal experiment with the bisexual vocabularies inherently present in the canon of cinema.

A Girl At My Door
2018-12-07 12:30 - 14:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Promising 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 Dohee, and quickly becomes her trusted friend and defender. But as Young-nam looks further into Dohee’s family life, she discovers a history of abuse by her stepfather, Yong-ha, whose own murky past masks the history of exploitative labour practices that have led to his becoming a powerful figure in the town.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Film in the Korean language with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Film relies on visual material to convey ideas and contains no English language, so is less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

SQIFF Shorts: Weird and Wild
2018-12-07 15:00 - 16:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
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 forest camping trip, and queer feminist gangs doing battle in a violent, dystopian present. Weird and Wild consists of work by filmmakers expert in creating tense atmospheres and queer moods whilst recounting their gripping tall tales.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in English, French, and Norwegian languages with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Films rely on visual material to convey ideas and two out of four films are non-English language, so less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

The Brother (4m)
Dir: Kai Fi’ain, Year: 2018
On a bleary eyed morning in Bethnal Green, you never know who you might bump into.
Calamity (22m)
Dir. Séverine De Streyker & Maxime Feyers, Year: 2017
France meets her son’s girlfriend for the first time. She loses control…
Skogen (The Forest) (20m)
Dir. Magnus Mork, Year: 2018
A middle aged couple is tenting in a forest. Bjørn seems more used to the setting than Lars, but they are both influenced by the nature. Surrounded by the trees they talk about big and small questions in life. A lovestory.
Swarm of Selenium (23m)
Dir. Maude Matton & SJ Rahatoka, Year: 2018
In the surreal dystopian present, two queer feminist crews cohabit the shells of an abandoned malt factory. As a troubling pattern begins to emerge from their mouths in the form of shattered glass, all are shaken, but some are hit harder than others. Through dance, visual work, and anti-work, they merge forces to try to care for one another and combat the insidious violent process which seems to increasingly come from within.

SQIFF Shorts: Queer Arab Lives
2018-12-07 15:30 - 16:35 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A 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 lesbian woman from Lebanon takes a fairground ride with her friends where their conversation turns to sex, relationships, and desire. And a Syrian trans woman navigates everyday life in 90s Beirut.
Curated by Samar Ziadat in partnership with Dardishi, a zine and Festival of Arab womxn’s art.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in Arabic, English, and French languages with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Films rely on visual material to convey ideas and are majority non-English language, so less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Three Centimetres (9m)
Dir: Lara Zeidan, Year: 2018
In the oldest fun park of Beirut, four young female friends go on a Ferris Wheel ride. During this claustrophobic open-air journey, they touch on intimate subjects, from making best use of three centimetres to Joanna’s recent breakup. However, Suzie’s breakup advice leads to an unexpected confession.
RUN(A)WAY ARAB (12m)
Dir. Amrou Al-Khadi, Year: 2017
Nazeem is a 26 year old Middle Eastern drag queen who names herself QUEEN ZA DREAM – she is preparing for a show with the utmost gravity, with an outfit evocative of an Egyptian deity.  Interwoven with this is the story of Nazeem as a genderqueer 8 year-old boy, and the close bond he has with his Iraqi-Egyptian mother, Halima. Whilst flamboyant and in many ways a drag queen herself on the surface, Halima is governed by the strict expectations of gender in Arab society.
Cinema Fouad (41m)
Dir. Mohamed Soueid, Year: 1994
Khaled, a Syrian transgender migrant dreams of undergoing gender transition surgery. While trying to make a living from various menial jobs, she falls in love with a Palestinian freedom fighter and joins his resistance. Gently, compassionately, Cinema Fouad draws a portrait of Khaled and introduces the viewer to one of Beirut’s rarely seen netherworlds.

on the tips of our tongues
2018-12-07 18:30 - 19:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
on the tips of our tongues intertwines artist film and sound works, readings and new writing. Concerned with illegible archives and embodied gestures this thing stems from Camara Taylor’s ongoing practice based research project, wet blue embrace(s), which explores strategies and aesthetic practices amidst the Black Queer Atlantic.
Curated and presented by artist and researcher Camara Taylor.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in English with English language subtitles/captions. BSL interpretation for readings. Hearing loop available.
Please contact access@sqiff.org to find out more about the films and level of suitability for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Dykes, Camera, Action! + BOOM BUST: Feminist Filmmakers Blowing Up the Canon
2018-12-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Lesbians didn’t always get to see themselves on screen. But between Stonewall, the feminist movement, and the experimental cinema of the 1970s, they built visibility, and transformed the social imagination about queerness. Filmmakers Barbara Hammer, Su Friedrich, Rose Troche, Cheryl Dunye, Yoruba Richen, Desiree Akhavan, Vicky Du, Jenni Olson, film critic B. Ruby Rich, and others share moving and often hilarious stories from their lives and discuss how they’ve expressed queer identity through film.
With a special presentation from curator Jenny Clarke (Club des Femmes), who brings their feminist film toolkit to SQIFF. With wise words and talking points from feminist filmmakers and critics from around the globe, So will set out why things need to change, and what we – as viewers, critics, programmers, and activists – can learn and do to take down mainstream cinema, while having ‘dykes, camera, action’-inspired fun on the way.
Presented in partnership with Glasgow Feminist Arts Festival.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Film in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. So Mayer’s presentation will be BSL interpreted. Hearing loop available.
Film relies on visual material to convey ideas but has a lot of voiceover and commentary, so is relatively accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

The Wild Search
2018-12-07 21:30 - 22:55 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A documentary film crew follows another documentary film crew as they attempt to understand the mating habits of San Francisco lesbians. A tour-de-force of queer women and genderqueer sex, The Wild Search is the ultimate pomo-homo-porno. An early work from powerhouse Shine Louise Houston and her company, Pink & White Productions, known for its championing of indie porn filmmaking and honest depiction of queer desire.
Screening with short Shiny Jewels (14 mins), in which Shine Louise Houston speaks with Shine Louise Houston and her co-director Shine Louise Houston about a day in the life of an adult filmmaker.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Films rely a lot on visual material to convey ideas, so are less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Party: Giovanni's Room with Peach
2018-12-07 22:00 - 2018-12-08 03:00 | The Art School, 20 Scott Street, Glasgow, G3 6PE, United Kingdom
Spanning wide themes and genres to provide a junction between underground and the carnivalesque, Giovanni’s Room is a space for all things queer, all people of colour, and all those that party in solidarity.

Focused on community, and being a space nurturing the visibility of queer, black, PoC, trans, and non-binary people who carry their open hearts and dancing bodies through its doors. Giovanni’s Room explores facets between love, solidarity, and dance music, while promoting the under-represented and gaining a unified momentum.

Each party will be tailored by the sounds of the artists who perform. Featuring Peach (NTS/Intergraded), Sofay, and Plantain Chipps.

Tickets are priced £8, £6 for students, and free for unwaged. To book, please use the button below. Tickets are also available on the door. For free tickets for unwaged, please email entergiovannisroom@gmail.com.

ACCESS
The Art School has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.

East Asia Focus: Until Rainbow Dawn
2018-12-08 12:30 - 13:35 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
After meeting at their Deaf school in Central Japan, Hana and Ayumi become close friends, and quickly fall in love. But when Hana comes out to her parents, they throw her out of the house. Ayumi takes Hana along to a queer Deaf meetup in Tokyo, where they meet and befriend a supportive group of trans, gay and lesbian Deaf people who tell them their own personal stories. Made by a majority Deaf cast and crew, Until Rainbow Dawn is a remarkable, authentic story of queer Deaf Japanese culture.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in Japanese and Japanese sign languages with simultaneous Japanese and English subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Film relies a lot on visual material to convey ideas and uses almost all Japanese sign language, so is less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

DESIRES AND RESISTANCE | UNEARTHING TRANS LEGACIES
2018-12-08 15:00 - 16:40 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Anonymous sexual encounters and flirtations with the camera, dress-up with Flawless Sabrina, and a night at the Stonewall Inn with Marsha P. Johnson: this programme proposes alternative modes of retrieving and disseminating a trans* past through an erotic gaze. Addressing an erasure of trans* legacies, these works place trans* sexual expression and resistances in conversation with a non-linear idea of history that is both real and fabricated, defiantly looking toward a future of pleasure, play, and beauty.
Curated and presented by Finn Paul in partnership with Outfest LGBTQ Film Festival in LA.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. The introduction will be BSL interpreted. Hearing loop available.
Films rely on visual material to convey ideas, so are less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Outlaw – Excerpt – first 16 min (16m)
Dir: Alisa Lebow, Year: 1994
Leslie Feinberg, a self-identified “gender outlaw” who has spent much of zir life passing as a man, speaks with passion and intelligence about zir exp…
St Pel (16m)
Dir. Jason Barker, Year: 1998
Interviews with 5 friends and the queer retelling of a story of a medieval saint.

FlyHole (6m)
Dir. Malic Amalya, Year: 2017
FlyHole tells the story of a housefly who transitions into a man in order to cruise gay bars. Text and images are appropriated from the March 1985 issue of the adult, gay digest magazine, Manscape, including illustrations by Mike Kuchar.
She Whose Blood is Clotting My Underwear (3m)
Dir. Vika Kirchenbauer, Year: 2016
Made for the performance project Cool For You, this video follows an artist’s research on thermal vision and the enhanced gazes of modern warfare. She uses these technical means to discuss intimacy and the body.
At Least You Know You Exist (16m)
Dir: Zackary Drucker, Year: 2011
Made in collaboration with New York performer and drag queen Flawless Sabrina, the film At Least You Know You Exist explores the interaction between two artists of different ages.
First Love (5m)
Dir. Alec Butler, Year: 2002
Our trans/2spirit/intersex hero Alick takes a walk in the birch grove with Kay, the high school siren, the girl of their dreams, things get hot and wet, melting hearts and the cold snow of the Canadian landscape.
beside the water, 1999-2003 (12m)
Dir. Finn Paul, Year: 2018
In this provocative video essay, queer artist Finn Paul mixes up sexual discovery, community formation and the isolation of desert landscapes in a collection of erotic snapshots.
Mighty Real (3m)
Dir. Vicente Ugartechea, Year: 2018
A young trans person embodies confidence and power in this cross-generational sexual encounter.
Happy Birthday, Marsha! (14m)
Dir. Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel, Year: 2016
Happy Birthday, Marsha! is a fictional short film that imagines transgender rights pioneers Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera in the hours leading to the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City. The film stars Mya Taylor as Marsha P. Johnson.

SQIFF Shorts: Queer Scotland
2018-12-08 15:30 - 17:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Our 2018 Scottish shorts programme contains another exciting range of work by and about LGBTQ+ people and communities within our (un)fair land. Among the imagery and themes included are the search for community and intimacy, trans embodiment, anti-queer conditioning, erotic fantasies in rural landscapes, lost love, spinsterhood, tarot cards, crayfish, and witches! Featuring a spectrum of narrative and experimental styles encompassing melodrama, film-poetry, animation, collective filmmaking, documentary, and diaristic footage.
We hope to be joined by a number of the filmmakers for a Q&A.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in English, Scottish Gaelic, and British sign languages with English language subtitles/captions. The Q&A will be BSL interpreted. Hearing loop available.
A mixture of film styles with around half relying on visual material to convey ideas and half conveying ideas via dialogue or voiceover. The large majority of films are English language. So, the screening is relatively accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

My Loneliness is Killing Me (16m)
Dir: Tim Courtney, Year: 2018
A young genderqueer individual searches for community and intimacy, uncovering an unexpected sexual and emotional connection within the darker edges of the nocturnal metropolis.
These Are My Hands (8m)
Dir. Evi Tsiligaridou, Year: 2018
These Are My Hands is a short documentary film-poem written and performed by radical British playwright, Jo Clifford. It is a deeply moving, personal account of transgender embodiment in a lifetime, speaking of wounds, challenges, victories, and the journey towards self-empowerment. The poet’s voice is embraced by a lyrical, mesmerising soundtrack and together with the graceful and intimate visuals composes a profoundly tender piece.
Enid & Valerie (2m)
Dir. Matthew Kennedy, Year: 2018
Enid & Valerie is a short film about a lone spinster named Valerie. Here we venture in to her dreams, where she meets Enid (a witch). Could this be the start of an unlikely friendship?
Long Lost Lover (5m)
Dir. Sandra Alland & Ania Urbanowska, Year: 2017
Bisexual deaf poet, Bea Webster, performs a poem in British Sign Language about her return to Thailand. Poem in English and BSL by Bea Webster; reading of poem by K. Yvonne Strain. Part of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press, 2017), edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka and Daniel Sluman.
HEARTS (8m)
Dir. Nas Saraei, Year: 2018
Sarah, a lost and stuck in a rut 20-something, ponders and reflects on love in Edinburgh, after losing the ‘one’ she thought was the ‘one’.
Pouring On House (10m)
Dir. Conor Baird, Year: 2018
Pouring On House engages with the gradual event of leaving a longtime family home. This strange grief is caught between the familiarity and fascination of interiors and the surrounding suburban sites. Throughout, a body surveys potential presences of contamination whilst coming to realise a disorientating hopelessness felt from ongoing anti-queer conditioning.
Submerged Village (21m)
Dir. Andrew Black, Year: 2017
Expanding on elements of Pamela Colman Smith’s drawing for The Moon tarot card – two dogs, a freshwater crayfish, a pool of water, a mountainous landscape – Submerged Village takes discrete moments at rural locations in Yorkshire and the West coast of Scotland and claims them as queer experiences.

A Moment In The Reeds
2018-12-08 17:30 - 19:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work. When Leevi’s father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and spend a few days discovering one another during the Finnish midsummer. A response to the dearth of queer narratives in Finnish cinema, A Moment in the Reeds is among the first queer feature films made in the country. Viewing Finland from the perspectives both of an immigrant and an emigrant, the film casts the long-marginalised voices of sexual and ethnic minorities centre-stage in a story about the search for freedom, acceptance, and a place to call home.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Film in Finnish and English languages with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Film relies on visual material to convey ideas and contains a lot of Finnish language dialogue, so is less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

SQIFF Shorts: Deaf Perspectives
2018-12-08 18:00 - 19:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A showcase of work by and about Deaf queer filmmakers and artists. Films include Dickie Hearts’ latest short, zombie spectacular The Deaf vs The Dead; a documentary about Deaf gay porn actor, Rick; a film-poem, featuring Donna Williams, about translation between British Sign Language and English, Bilingual Poet’s Dilemma; and The Unlimited House of Krip, a doc exploring the fusion of D/deaf and disabled performers with the extravagant world of vogue culture.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in English and German as well as British, American, and German sign languages with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Films rely to some extent on visual material but most have explanatory dialogue and voiceover, so are relatively accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

The Deaf vs The Dead – Episode 1: “Outbreak” (7m)
Dir: Dickie Hearts, Year: 2017
When the undead apocalypse breaks out in Los Angeles, an out Deaf man must find a way to survive and protect his loved ones, even if it means teaming up with some unlikely people.
Rick (16m)
Dir. Jan-Peter Horstmann, Year: 2017
Ricco Muller was crowned Mr Gay Switzerland in 2009 and now finds a home under the bright lights of the adult film set as Rick Louis, coming into himself away from the limitations that society has tried to put on him as a gay, D/deaf person.
Bilingual Poet’s Dilemma (4m)
Dir. Sandra Alland & Ania Urbanowska, Year: 2017
Deaf poet Donna Williams playfully shows the difficulties of translation between British Sign Language and English. Poem in English and BSL by Donna Williams; reading of poem by K. Yvonne Strain. Part of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press, 2017), edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka and Daniel Sluman.
The Unlimited House of Krip (26m)
Dir. Garry Robson & Jane Farley, Year: 2018
Exploring the fusion of D/deaf and disabled performers with the extravagant world of vogue culture. Fittings Multimedia Arts formed a “House” of Deaf performers to walk in the Legendary House of Suarez Vogue Ball and the process – from auditions to performance – was recorded as a celebration of diversity.

East Asian Focus: The Story of the Stone
2018-12-08 18:00 - 19:45 | Scottish Youth Theatre, The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow, G1 1TF, United Kingdom
A queering of a tale from classical Chinese literature, thoroughly modernised and relocated to the midst of Taipei’s gay community. After the death of his boyfriend, Lin heads to the city, where he starts up a new relationship with waiter Josh. But their love is quickly threatened by jealousy, temptation, and tragedy. Beautifully stylised and acted, The Story of the Stone depicts a full range of the gay male experience in modern-day Taiwan, from its darkest sides to those of redemption and hope.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below.

ACCESS
Film is in the English language with English language subtitles/captions.
Film largely non-English language with only a small amount of significant spoken English dialogue and strong visual components, so less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print handouts available.
Scottish Youth Theatre has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Pink Excavation
2018-12-08 18:30 - 19:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Pink Excavation is Natasha Lall’s first feature length film. With Lall as the narrator and cameos from local queers Mina Baird and Junie Latte, this DIY film explores the preservation of queer histories in Glasgow, 2518. Pink Excavation sees Lall excavate 90s-00s technological relics that are outdated in the 2500s and become frustrated at their lack of understanding on how to access information from these ancient technologies. Upon interactions with an archaeologist and a ghost Lall discusses whether or not the poor archiving of LGBT culture has a positive impact on the queer community. The film is a lo-fi, sci-fi contemplation on the pros and cons of queer visibility.
Screening with short Reality Fragment (14 mins) by Qigemu, which examines how multiple lived worlds, each their own mix of memories, sensations, and thoughts, coexist with de facto presentations of distance, history, and totality.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Films rely to a large extent on visual material to convey ideas, so are less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Luke & Jack present: Bishop Black Retrospective
2018-12-08 21:00 - 23:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
We are excited to bring Berlin-based actor and performer Bishop Black to SQIFF to present a retrospective of his amazing and varied work. Bishop has worked with some of the most prodigious and provocative directors in queer porn including Shu Lea Cheang, Erika Lust, Morgana Muses, and Bruce LaBruce. He has handpicked for us a selection of films central to the development of his career and approach, exploring his transition from gay male to queer porn and his identity as a black queer performer amongst other themes. Join us for a stimulating and seductive evening of x-rated shorts followed by Bishop in conversation about his art with Drew Bigglestone and Ian Diamond of Luke & Jack.
In partnership with Luke & Jack, Scotland’s premiere sex boutique.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Film in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. The post-film discussion will be BSL interpreted. Hearing loop available.
Film relies on visual material to convey ideas but has a lot of voiceover and commentary, so is relatively accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Having My Cake (20m)
Dir: Morgana Muses, Year: 2015
Having My Cake is a sumptuous film detailing a woman’s journey to Paris where she manages to not only have her cake, but eat it as well. Starring Morgana Muses and Bishop Black.
Dominate Me (12m)
Dir. Erika Lust, Year: 2016
Can you handle this one, guys and girls? This is a story dripping with lust. A story about ecstasy in the land between pleasure and pain, where restriction can feel like the warmest embrace, and the lash of a whip like the softest kiss… Erika Lust’s latest release in XConfessions is a BDSM story about a man who longs to be dominated by a woman.
The End (22m)
Dir. Noel Alejandro, Year: 2018
Javier is an obsessed artist who is grieving the end of a relationship. His sorrow comes as a combination of memories, instinct and denial, and the mourning’s harsh feelings will compromise his sense of reality. Surrounded by doubt, and subjected to several addictions, Javier fights to find peace – until his lattermost move take him to a surrealistic emotional purgatory.
Gloaming (12m)
Dir. Vex Ashley & Four Chambers, Year: 2017
The period of time when the sun falls below the horizon line and tears of blue and orange gradiate the sky. I’ve always called this indigo hour but apparently it’s more commonly called blue hour and the Scottish call it the gloaming.
The indigo in the sky isn’t exactly black or blue, it’s not quite day or night. It exists in a gap, without definition.
Zombie Queer Punk Urban Post Porn Horror Show (5m)
Dir. Tchivett, Year: 2017
Basically a crazy romp through industrial Berlin by porn stars made up as zombies, all of them licking and humping anything in sight like they’re fresh brains.

Leitis in Waiting + Lady Eva
2018-12-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Scottish Youth Theatre, The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow, G1 1TF, United Kingdom
Tonga, an island group in the South Pacific, has long considered trans women, known as leitis, an integral part of its culture, often carrying significant social status. But recent Western religious influences have seen their identities being increasingly challenged. This documentary traces their proud cultural history and highlights developments in their struggles against discrimination. Screens with the short film Lady Eva, which delves further into the story of leiti Eva Baron, one of the subjects of the feature.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below.

ACCESS
Films are in the English and Tongan languages with English language subtitles/captions.
Films have significant sections of non-English dialogue, title cards, and other visual components, so are less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
Scottish Youth Theatre has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

SQIFF Shorts: Gay as in Hysterically Funny
2018-12-09 15:00 - 17:00
What does it mean to make fun of yourself and your community as an LGBTQ+ person? This programme examines queerness and onscreen comedy, including short films by Raymond Yeung, Jordan Firstman, and Alli Logout, and episodes from Ingrid Jungermann’s classic webseries, F to 7th. Featuring self-loathing and loathable gay men, butch lesbians in denial, and queer femmes in their own carefree universe.
Followed by a panel discussion on queerness and comedy featuring comedian Rosie Jones and more guests tbc.
Screening as part of QFN’s Gay as in Hysterically Funny tour for BFI Comedy Genius.
Comedy Genius is a celebration of comedy on screen, led by BFI, the Independent Cinema Office and BFI Film Audience network, supported by funds from the National Lottery. QFN is a strategic Film Hub Wales project and receives support from the BFI Film Audience Network.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below.

ACCESS
Films are in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. BSL interpretation for panel discussion.
Films contains some visual ideas but have a lot of dialogue, so are relatively suitable for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
Scottish Youth Theatre has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Yellow Fever (27m)
Dir: Raymond Yeung, Year: 1998
A fun and astute look at the self-imposed prejudices of a gay Chinese-British man. Anglophile Monty is looking for his perfect man, but only white British men need apply. That is until the attractive Jai Ming moves in next door and the two men seem to connect. Can Monty overcome his prejudices? Writer-director Raymond Yeung’s debut short is a light-hearted comedy of manners.
F to 7th: Season 1, Episode 2 “Tweener” (5m)
Dir. Ingrid Jungermann, Year: 2013
An internally homophobic gay struggles to find herself in a world where sexuality and gender have left her old-fashioned lesbianism behind. In “Tweener,” Ingrid tries to deny her butchness when barred from a lesbian bachelorette party, whilst cheering on her softball team, the Wet Lips, alongside her misogynistic dyke friend.
Call Your Father (20m)
Dir. Jordan Firstman, Year: 2016
On Josh and Greg’s first date, they quickly realize that the generational divide between them is the least of their worries. The infuriatingly mixed messages from a cute but potentially sociopathic millennial force an older man to choose between hopping into bed with him and bailing, in this darkly comical satire on entitled twenty-somethings.
F to 7th: Season 1, Episode 3 “Interchangeable” (12m)
Dir. Ingrid Jungermann, Year: 2013
Geeky and sensible Ingrid meets a woman online, who invites herself over for a hot night of passion, but what happens when both of them want to ‘be the man’?
Lucid Noon, Sunset Blush (32m)
Dir. Alli Logout, Year: 2015
17-year-old bb gay Micha has just moved into The Palace – a basement full of queer femme Dominatrix, lovers and misfits. They are beautiful, carefree and as young as the night. An alternative, comedy narrative of queer sex workers of colour.

Shakedown
2018-12-09 15:30 - 17:15 | Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB, United Kingdom
Owned by women, underground and illegal in nature, the club Shakedown was an independent, all black lesbian strip club operating in LA from the late 90s. Director Leilah Weinraub’s film chronicles the explicit performances and personal relationships of the party’s dancers and organisers, including Ronnie-Ron, Shakedown Productions’ creator and emcee; Mahogany, the legendary “mother” of the community; Egypt, their star performer; and Jazmine, the “Queen” of Shakedown.
Presented in partnership with Scottish Documentary Institute.
All ticket holders can join us at Saramago at CCA after the screening for free drinks supported by Sheffield Doc/Fest.
www.sheffdocfest.com
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call GFT box office on +44 (0)141 332 6535.

ACCESS
Film is in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available (GFT’s Cinema 3 and box office).
Film is very visual-based, so less suitable for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
Glasgow Film Theatre has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Rafiki
2018-12-09 16:30 - 18:00
“Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives,” but Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety. Rafiki made international news after being banned by the Kenya Film Classification Board for its homosexual theme and promotion of lesbianism. Director Wanuri Kahiu subsequently sued the Kenyan government. The ban was lifted and the film was screened to sell-out crowds in Nairobi.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below.

ACCESS
Film is in a Swahili and English languages with English language subtitles and captions.
Large print versions of handouts available.
The Space has good access for wheelchair users. Please email access@sqiff.org for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Queer Arab Lives: My Brother The Devil
2018-12-09 18:00 - 19:55 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A life of crime for Hackney gang member, Rash, looks set to change after a chance meeting with a successful photographer shows him a more honest existence away from drugs and fast cash. However, as he looks for a way out of the game, younger brother Mo is chancing for a way in. The teenage brothers must come to terms with their racial and sexual identities while navigating gang violence in Welsh-Egyptian writer-director Sally El Hosaini’s cinematic debut.
Curated by Samar Ziadat in partnership with Dardishi, a zine and Festival of Arab womxn’s art.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Film in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. The post-film discussion will be BSL interpreted. Hearing loop available.
Film relies on visual material to convey ideas but has a lot of voiceover and commentary, so is relatively accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

SQIFF 2018 Closing Night: White Rabbit
2018-12-09 19:00 - 20:40 | Scottish Youth Theatre, The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow, G1 1TF, United Kingdom
Recently single, Korean-born LA artist Sophia Lee – played by performance artist Vivian Bang (who also co-wrote the screenplay with director Daryl Wein) – devotes herself to her public performance art, whether it’s a provocative Korean perspective in the park on the LA Riots or quirky digital art on social media. To pay the bills, she does odd jobs for TaskRabbit. When a stranger makes Sophia late for a TaskRabbit gig, she loses her temper with her, only to run into her repeatedly and discover a strong connection. Sophia develops feelings for her, but it’s unclear if her love is reciprocated.
Preceded by closing night speeches. Sponsored by Merchant City Brewing Co.
Screening as part of QFN’s Gay as in Hysterically Funny tour for BFI Comedy Genius.
Comedy Genius is a celebration of comedy on screen, led by BFI, the Independent Cinema Office and BFI Film Audience network, supported by funds from the National Lottery. QFN is a strategic Film Hub Wales project and receives support from the BFI Film Audience Network.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below.

ACCESS
Film is in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. BSL interpretation for closing night speeches.
Large print versions of handouts available.
Scottish Youth Theatre has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please cancel your order or let us know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

SQIFF Shorts: Tender Anguish
2018-12-09 20:15 - 21:25 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Harika Özer is an impoverished trans sex worker whose family sought refuge from Siirt to Manisa in Turkey in the 80s. Raf, a young queer man in the UK, struggles to find his place amongst the crowd in a dive gay bar. Icarus arrives in a new city in Brazil and begins an affair with a man that soon goes agonisingly wrong. Real historical figure Mary MacLane cuts a forlorn queer figure in her lonely Montana hometown at the turn of the 20th Century. And Fetish is a Black man in the streets reclaiming his body through magic, fire, and defiance. Each character experiences pain and vulnerability and must negotiate how to cope in these stories of tenderness and anguish.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films are in English, Portuguese, and Turkish languages with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Films rely a lot on visual material to convey ideas and/or are non-English language, so are less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

The Wonderful Affair (5m)
Dir: Tahir Ün, Year: 2016
Harika Özer is a child whose Kurdish family sought refuge from Siirt to Manisa at the end of 1980s. In his own words, he is a transsexual feeling female spirit in his own body since early childhood. He has lived in Izmir since 2000 and makes a living through prostitution. This work is a documentary project realised by Harika (literally translated as ‘wonderful’), posing for the camera with all his self-confidence and courage. It gives the audience a non-judgemental stance against homophobia.
Four Quartets (10m)
Dir. Marco Alessi, Year: 2018
Over the course of a night out in a gay dive bar, Raf struggles to find his place amongst the crowd. Four Quartets is a short film about queer community, and how the anxieties and conditioning we face sometimes stop us from letting ourselves belong.
Adeus Estrada de Tijolos Amarelos (19m)
Dir. Hiran Matheus, Year: 2018
Icarus arrives in another city to try life as a telemarketer, but when he goes out at night he is caught by a boy. Screenplay based on a Elton John song and filmed with a cell phone.
Between my flesh and the world’s fingers (31m)
Dir. Talena Sanders, Year: 2018
Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman of Butte, Montana, published her diaries in 1902 and 1917. As an out queer and proto-feminist at the turn of the century, MacLane became notorious upon the publication of her 1902 diary, I Await the Devil’s Coming. She was whisked away from the industrial hellscape of her copper mining Montana hometown to a life in the public eye as an author, journalist, female film pioneer and always a provocateur – sending up social norms throughout her career, with a special focus on staid notions about women and sexuality.
Between my flesh and the world’s fingers is an experimental essay and diary film primarily based on her published diaries and her film work.
FETISH (16m)
Dir. Topher Campbell, Year: 2018
The character of Fetish is a representation of so many things. He is at once a clear form – a body – and formless, like the bodies of Basquiat. As a Black man in the streets, he is both positioned by othering and places himself in a world of looking, power, strength, harassment, fashion, sexual objectification, invisibility, visibility, admiration, CCTV, selfies, vulnerability, humour, performance, protest, danger, violence and humour. If you have ever been stopped by police for being Black, embarrassment, futility and vulnerability are at the apex of the experience. Or, as is the case with Tamir, Philando, Freddy, Sandra and so on, being dead and treated like shit is what happens. Fetish in this film experiences and represents this painful embarrassment and vulnerability. It’s hard to watch and painful to experience.
By the end of the film through magic, through fire, through defiance, through being a multi-dimensional being in touch with the elements, Fetish reclaims his body and stands like a colossus in The City.

East Asian Focus: Alifu The Prince/ss
2018-12-09 20:30 - 22:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A set of intersecting queer Taiwanese stories about love, identity and loss. Alifu, a member of an indigenous Paiwan community, is selected to succeed her father as the head of her tribe, but hasn’t yet come out to her family as trans. She is attracted to Chris, a closeted drag performer, while her flatmate, Peizhan, is also dangerously obsessed with Alifu. At the same time, Sherry, the trans woman who runs the nightclub where Chris performs, suddenly becomes ill, forcing Wu, her long-time friend and plumber, to remember their shared past as he cares for her.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Film is in Taiwanese, Mandarin Chinese, Paiwan, and English languages with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Film relies on visual material to convey ideas and is mostly non-English language, so is less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences.
Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

SQIFF Shorts on Tour
2019-02-09 13:00 - 2019-03-06 23:00
We present on tour an inclusive selection of LGBTQ+ short films from our 2018 Festival Opening Night. Headlining the programme is VISIBLE, created by Campbell X and Kayza Rose, who explore QTIPOC (queer, trans, and intersex people of colour) histories, challenging mainstream perceptions and sanitisation of legacies, and celebrating complexity, multiplicity, myths, gossip, and legends. Also featuring a lesbian sports star coming out, being gay in the Maldives, queer working class vulnerability, and more.
Screenings are taking place across Scotland for LGBT History Month. We are pleased director of VISIBLE, Campbell X, will join us for Q&As in Dundee, Hawick, Ayr, Edinburgh, and Stirling.
Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network.
To book, see list of screenings and booking links below.
CCA, Glasgow in partnership with STUC LGBT+ Committee, Saturday 9th February, 1pm. Tickets offered on a sliding scale of free to £8. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Wednesday 13th February, 6.15pm. Tickets £5-7.50. To book, please use the button below or call DCA box office on +44 (0)1382 432 444.

The Byre Theatre, St. Andrews part of Queerfest with Saints LGBT+, Friday 15th February, 6pm. Tickets offered on a sliding scale of free to £8. To book, please use the button below.

Cornucopia, Hawick in partnership with Scottish Borders LGBT Equality, Saturday 23rd February, 4pm. Free, unticketed – just come along.

Ayr Town Hall in partnership with Ayr Film Society and Ayrshire LGBTQ, Sunday 24th February, 6.30pm. Free, unticketed – just come along.

50 George Square, University of Edinburgh with MSc Film, Exhibition and Curation, Tuesday 26th February, 7pm. Tickets offered on a sliding scale of free to £8. To book, please use the button below.

Macrobert, Stirling in partnership with Stirling University LGBTQ+ Society, Friday 1st March, 7.30pm. Tickets £6. To book, please use the button below or call Macrobert box office on +44 (0)1786 466 666.

Eden Court, Inverness, Monday 4th March, 6.15pm. Tickets £3.50-5.50. To book, please use the button below or call Eden Court box office on +44 (0)1463 234 234.

Belmont Filmhouse, Aberdeen in partnership with Grampian Pride, Wednesday 6th March, 7.30pm. Tickets £5. To book, please use the button below or call Belmont Filmhouse box office on +44 (0)1224 343 500.

Round One (4m)
Dir: Ella Sowinska, Year: 2017
Round One creates a portrait of Nicola Stevens, who played in the first professional Australian Football League women’s game in 2017.
There You Are (15m)
Dir. Lisa Donato, Year: 2018
A trans woman must dress like a boy to say goodbye to her dying grandmother.
Blooming Night (9m)
Dir. Bell Zhong, Year: 2017
Mesmerised by a pair of red heels, a lonely street guy in Shanghai follows their owner into a club, where he discovers a forbidden community that he has never experienced before.
Medulla Oblongata (8m)
Dir. Roberto Nascimento, Year: 2017
“Life can be horrible. But it also can be beautiful. Really f***ing beautiful.” Abraham Naim aka drag queen Medulla Oblongata relates their story of escaping persecution for being gay in the Maldives and finding acceptance and community.
Crashing Waves (4m)
Dir. Emma Gilbertson, Year: 2018
Two young working-class men explore the intimacy and vulnerability of relationships in a combative dance against the backdrop of an inner city estate, risking all under the scrutiny of a tight-knit community.
Top 10 Places to Visit in São Paulo (14m)
Dir. Akira Kamiki, Year: 2018
On a dreamy Sunday, two photographers walk around São Paulo trying to connect with the city, and slowly fall in love with each other.
VISIBLE (20m)
Dir. Campbell X, Year: 2018
VISIBLE digs in and shreds misconceptions that LGBTQ+ people of colour have no history – and no story to tell. Weaving together the tales of inspirational ancestors, contemporary artists, political activists, and community leaders – VISIBLE challenges mainstream perception and the sanitisation of LGBTQ+ legacies by celebrating complexity, multiplicity, and the myths, gossips, legends, and truths of QTIPOC histories.

QTIPOC shorts for LGBT History Month
2019-02-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AW, United Kingdom
For LGBT History Month, SQIFF and the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER) are partnering to showcase short films focusing on QTIPOC representation and ideas.
My Loneliness is Killing Me features a femme man of colour who invites a white man to his apartment for a hook-up, unexpectedly unearthing a dark emotional connection. Clash is a short experimental documentary by queer Iraqi non-binary filmmaker Amrou Al-Khadi critiquing the lack of diversity in on-screen representation in Britain today. Iconic transgender artist and activist, Marsha “Pay it No Mind” Johnson, and her life in the hours before she ignited the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City are depicted in Happy Birthday, Marsha!.
The event will be hosted by Samar Ziadat, curator, activist, and co-founder of Dardishi, with a discussion with local QTIPOC artists and activists following the screening.
FREE ENTRY (no need to sign up, just come along on the night)
ACCESS
Films in the English language with captions for Deaf and Hard of Hearing access. BSL interpretation for the discussion. Our venue, Kelvin Hall, is wheelchair accessible with accessible toilet facilities. For more information on the venue, click here. Please get in touch via helen@sqiff.org with any questions about access.
Content note: reference to violence and scenes of a sexual nature.

Portraits of Artists as Young Men (& Women & Other)
2019-06-01 19:00 - 21:00 | The Art School, 20 Scott Street, Glasgow, G3 6PE, United Kingdom
SQIFF curates a screening as part of Glasgow School of Art’s Degree Show programme, Dress Rehearsal. Portraits of Artists as Young Men (& Women & Other) takes a look at the earlier, formative days of queer artists who have gone on to make significant bodies of work. Featuring documentation and experimental meanderings by and/or about photographer Ajamu X, circus performer Jennifer Miller, and filmmakers Thomas Allen Harris and Barbara Hammer, amongst others. Common themes emerge of hitting back against oppression and searching for identity through the creative process.
This event is free and unticketed. Just come along on the night.
Click here for GSA’s full Dress Rehearsal Degree Show programme.
ACCESS
Films are in the English language with English language captions.
Films are experimental so some are quite visual-based but there is a relatively good amount of explanatory dialogue for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
The Art School has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.

SQIFF at Jupiter Rising
2019-08-23 - 2019-08-26 | Jupiter Artland, Bonnington House Steadings, Near Wilkieston, Edinburgh, EH27 8BY, United Kingdom
We are really pleased to be taking part in Jupiter Rising music festival with 2 programmes of short films during the 3-day festival. Jupiter Rising takes place at Jupiter Artland near Edinburgh 23 to 25 August with a line-up including music, performance, film and moving image, artist-led workshops, wild swimming, and more!
To find out more about Jupiter Rising and how to book tickets, click here.
For information about Jupiter Artland, how to get there, and access information, click here.

ACCESS
Jupiter Rising is an outdoor festival, two stages are undercover in large marquees, one stage is located in the woods.
Each stage will include a reserved viewing area for wheelchair users and their carers. Other areas include a bar, cinema, workshops and activities tent, all of which are wheelchair accessible and undercover.
The ground at Jupiter Artland is grass, paths, natural woodland and meadow, which can sometimes be uneven underfoot or for wheelchair users.
Accessible camping is located in a meadow, a short distance away from the main stages. An accessible toilet is provided.
A quiet space will be provided throughout the event and will be highlighted on the site map.
There will be gender-neutral toilets and two accessible toilets located in various locations, highlighted on the site map.
Assistance dogs are welcome provided they are on a lead (Jupiter Artland has livestock on site).
Please get in touch to let us know if you require a large print version of the printed programme, which will be available to pick up from the Box Office.
Ear plugs will be available from the Box Office.
Strobe lighting may feature in some performances and film screenings.
SQIFF film screenings are in a variety of languages with English language captions for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing audiences. Many of the films are based largely on visual ideas with little spoken language.
Jupiter Rising is committed to improving accessibility. If there is anything we can do to make it easier for you to attend, or if you have any questions, thoughts or feedback about access for this event, please email enquiries@jupiterartland.org or call 01506 889900.

SQIFF Shorts: Intimacies
2019-10-02 12:30 - 13:50 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Touch, connection, sensuality, bonding. Sharing of solidarity, friendship, grief, and (com)passion. This selection of short films from the UK, US, Brazil, and the Amazon trace intimacies between friends, family, communities, and lovers. The revolutionary potential of femme for femme relationships. Upholding trans and immigrant identities and memory across generations. Busting childhood isolation and fear of being queer. Leaving your life behind due to youthful yearning. A slow-paced and tactile assortment of stories embracing many different faces and places.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 12+.
Films have a mixture of English, Persian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese audio and ASL with English captions/subtitles. Hearing loop available.
Most of the films are not very accessible to English-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences with largely visual storytelling, minimal dialogue, and majority non-English language. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
A Quiet Space and programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

#Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures (13m)
Dir: Katy Jalili, Country: UK, Year: 2017, Language/s: English, Persian
#Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures is an exploration of queer ancestry and diaspora, the hybrids between cultural traditions and contemporary queer identity. It explores brown bodies and femme for femme intimacies, and the feeling of being between a search for home and finding home in a familiar stranger.
Content note: Depiction of nudity.
Silvia in the waves (13m)
Dir: Gio Olmos, Country: Canada, Year: 2018, Language/s: French
Noa struggles to honor the identity of his recently deceased parent while his mother tries to uphold the appearance of a conventional family. Grief and fantasy entwine to reveal the complex relationship between history and erasure, identity and memory.
Content note: Depiction of queerphobia.
Welcome to the Ball (5m)
Dir: Adam Vincent Wright, Country: USA, Year: 2019, Language/s: English, ASL
A child learns sign language in hopes of making a new friend.
Content note: None.
My Grandson, Charlotte (13m)
Dir: Tyler Pierreson, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
A transgender teen and his immigrant granddad, a Sapeur from the Congo, bond over their shared understanding of the importance of identity and of always being true to one’s self.
Content note: Depiction of death.
Carlito se va Para Siempre (13m)
Dir: Quentin Lazzarotto, Country: UK, Year: 2018, Language/s: Spanish
In the Amazonian jungle, the village of Palma Real resists the modern world. Carlito, a silent young man, decides to leave. On the muddy bed of the immense river, an encounter reveals the secret that Carlito has hidden from his community.
Content note: None.
Infinite While It Lasts (19m)
Dir: Akira Kamiki, Country: Brazil, Year: 2019, Language/s: Portuguese
After falling in love at a party, Danny and Seiji just want to be together. However, their differences might prove stronger than their feelings. A fiction film about asexuality.
Content note: Reference to sex.

LUX Scotland presents: where did we land + Fi Dem I & II
2019-10-02 15:30 - 16:50 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
London-based curator and artist Rabz Lansiquot screens their new moving image essay where did we land, an ongoing experiment interrogating the effect of images of anti-black violence produced and reproduced in film and media, and parts 1 and 2 of artist Zinzi Minott’s Fi Dem Series, a continued investigation into Blackness and Diaspora made annually on the anniversary of the Empire Windrush docking in the UK on June 22nd 1948. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Rabz Lansiquot about their research on moving beyond representation and towards liberation in Black film, and how queerness informs their approach.
In partnership with LUX Scotland, a non-profit agency dedicated to supporting, developing, and promoting artists’ moving image practices in Scotland.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 12+.
Films have a mixture of English and Patois audio with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available. If you would like to attend this event and require BSL interpretation for the discussion, please email access@sqiff.org at least 2 weeks in advance.
Films are not very accessible to English-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences with mostly image-based ideas. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
A Quiet Space and programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

LUX Scotland is a non-profit agency dedicated to supporting, developing and promoting artists’ moving image practices in Scotland. Working at the intersection of the contemporary visual arts and film sectors, its core activities include public exhibition and touring projects, learning and professional development for artists and arts professionals, distribution, commissioning and production support, research and sector advocacy. From its offices based in Glasgow, it works with a growing network of national and international partners, including museums, contemporary art organisations, film festivals and educational institutions, to deliver its programme. Established in 2014, LUX Scotland is a part of LUX and is supported by Creative Scotland.
