We cordially invite you to our Opening Night event, Scottish Shorts 1. This event showcases the outstanding talent of queer filmmakers here in our homeland, Scotland. Before we embark on a week exploring queer international cinema, Scottish Shorts celebrates the diverse range of films coming out of Scotland right now. Expect big muscles, punk […]
Hand-scratched Super 8, neon ink bleeding across film strips, torn paper fragments, found footage, and reclaimed archives brought back to life. Collaged is a celebration of tactile experimental filmmaking. Blurring the boundaries between analogue and digital, memory and imagination, these films embrace hands-on editing, resurfacing found footage, and the creative ways to piece […]
Telepathy, psychic yearning, ghostly cruising…. And that’s just the first date. Join us to explore the intuitive and psychic nature of sapphic relationships, where lust is mythic and dreaming is half the flirt. These shorts pull us into the freaky realm of lesbian imagination. We’ll drift into the clouds of a queer utopia, […]
This screening showcases compelling short documentaries all under 12 minutes in length. It proves that big, powerful stories can be told in even the tiniest films. From intimate personal portraits and participatory filmmaking, to more experimental works, this eclectic programme spans a number of styles, genres, and perspectives. Together, these works highlight the […]
Amanda and Caio are a T4T couple who have shared seven years of love and dreams. When they finally decide to move in together, the intimacy of daily life begins to expose their differences. Caio, romantic and idealistic, longs for emotional stability and a future built together while working at a radio station. Amanda, […]
What happens when a feeling takes hold of the body and refuses to loosen its grip? Moving between love, memory, erotic experimentation, body horror and public scrutiny, these films explore the ways queer people are desired, judged, transformed and misunderstood. A body changes beyond recognition. A lover becomes inseparable from a place. A private […]
Love takes many shapes. In this selection of shorts from Brazil, different kinds of love move through distinct relationships. Not eternal as in forever unchanged, but constantly evolving: a throuple that keeps choosing each other as illness rewrites what they remember. Travesti friends who sit together inside grief rather than apart from it. Lovers […]
What can a body say that words cannot? Beyond Words moves between BSL, breath, music, choreography, vibration and touch, following the many ways meaning can travel through the body. Across these films, bodies become letters, instruments, signals and landscapes, carrying desire, memory, fear, pleasure and resistance. An alphabet is danced through ruins. A bog […]
The world is ending all the time. Politically, ecologically, inside the body, inside the home, and across places that no longer offer safety. These films begin from that pressure point. A damaged landscape becomes a site of pleasure and resistance. A lost relationship carries the weight of queer life under repression. A return to […]
Scottish Shorts 2 moves across Edinburgh summers, dinner tables, supermarket bins, political stages and the search for beauty in a new home. These films look at what it means to be shut out, misunderstood or left behind, but also at the strange and inventive ways people make space for themselves. Relationships begin to slip, […]
