BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//SQIFF - ECPv6.17.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.sqiff.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for SQIFF REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20250101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261019T203000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261019T223000 DTSTAMP:20260915T051326Z CREATED:20260915T051326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T051326Z UID:13750-1792441800-1792449000@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:Opening Night: Scottish Shorts DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nWe 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 rebellion\, experimental textures\, heartfelt conversations and more. \nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A with local filmmakers. All films in this screening and ‘Scottish Shorts 2’ are in with a chance to win the title of Best Scottish Short. The winner will be announced at the closing screening of SQIFF 2026. \nCurated by Nat Lall & Huss. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and Q&A. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nBritish Sign Language\, English and Scottish Gaelic audio\, with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for the introduction and Q&A.\nAudio Description for all films.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 92 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 18+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nFilms in this programme include: \n  \nVALLTE – ARPEGGI\, Dir. Reese Leitch\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 2 min \nA short experimental film about difficulties finding pride as a trans woman. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery\, flashing lights\, strobes. \nContent notes: Depiction of suggested nudity. Discussion of upsetting themes. \n  \nPang\, Dir. Lara Delmage\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 12 min \nSurreal\, sexy\, and spectral. The summer before Cam leaves for university\, childhood best friends Cam and Evie are haunted by the breakdown of their grey-area\, queer friendship. As they laze by the pool\, they test the limits of their relationship\, and try to define who they are to each other. \nContent notes: Depiction of animal cruelty\, emotional stress. \n  \nDid I Feel It?\, Dir. Emma McIntyre\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 12 min \nDid I Feel It? Is a creative documentary that reflects on and through a recent surgery\, convalescing and energies that are vital in living with lifelong disabilities. By sharing this small insight I hope to draw focus to the complexities and expansive journeys of queer disabled lives. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery\, loud noises. \nContent notes: Depiction of hospitals\, scars. \n  \nThe Muscle Knows Better Than To Wait\, Dir. Erica Monde\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 4 min \nA portrait of an LGBT weightlifting club in Sheffield\, exploring the embodiment of queer and trans power. \nContent notes: Discussion of transphobia. \n  \nThe Collective\, Dirs. Beth Johnston\, Daniel Archibald\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 7 min \nIn a dystopian Glasgow\, a feminist punk collective interrupt a government radio broadcast to protest against the fascist regime. \n \n  \nWake and Bake\, Dir. Luca Kerr\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 5 min \nCousins Fionn and Aonghas bond over their inability to fit into their family of saints at their grandmother’s wake. \nContent notes: Depiction of implied drug use\, smoking. Discussion of bereavement. \n  \nXTalk by HommAges\, Dir. Craig Mulholland\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 21 min \nOperating as material phenomenon and metaphor\, XTalk reframes autonomy\, objectification and porous boundaries between subject and object within BDSM culture\, fetish materiality and Queer ontology\, foregrounding adjacency\, interference\, surface\, contact and erotic material intersection. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery\, flashing lights. \nContent notes: Depiction of fetishism. \n  \nThey Bend Stars\, Dir. Diego Migliorini\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 11 min \nA genderless alien tortured in an underground facility learns that the key to return to their purple planet lies within. They must escape their captor and find their way back to their distant home. \nAccess notes: Flashing lights\, visual effects that may trigger people with photosensitive epilepsy. \n  \nExiled for Existing\, Dir. Vilte Vaitkute\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 7 min \nLGBTQ+ Refugees living in the UK speak about their experiences and the community they’ve found in Scotland. \nContent notes: Discussion of emotional displacement\, homophobia\, physical violence. \n  \nReconnection\, Dir. Amy Helena\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 11 min \nA couple’s argument is interrupted by a blackout. In candlelight\, silence gives way to honesty\, helping them reconnect and bridge the emotional distance between them. \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: PANG\, 2026\, Dir. Lara Delmage URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/opening-night-scottish-shorts/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Audio description,BSL,Deaf,Descriptive Subtitles,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Shorts,World premiere ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/PANG-03-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261020T133000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261020T151500 DTSTAMP:20260915T051240Z CREATED:20260915T051240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T051240Z UID:13772-1792503000-1792509300@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:Collaged DESCRIPTION:  \nListen to this Event Page\n  \nHand-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 film together. Expect an explosion of colour\, texture\, and sound as filmmakers transport us to vibrant new worlds. Perfect for anyone ready to drift beyond the polished surfaces of high definition and discover the grainy\, acid-washed world of experimental cinema. \nThe films will be followed by a Q&A between Autojektor (A CURE FOR SCARS)\, Marguerite Carson (the bird sings with its fingers) and curator Nat Lall. \nCurated by Nat Lall. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and Q&A. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nEnglish\, German\, Spanish audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for for the introduction and Q&A.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 59 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 15+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nT4T\, Dir. Avian de Keizer\, 2023\, United States\, 3min. \nT4T is a short Super 8 experimental film about trans love and the medical system. \nAccess notes: Flashing Imagery. \n  \nLC39-A\, Dir. Josipa Anton\, 2026\, United States\, 4min. \nA short experimental documentary about the Space Race by filmmaker Josipa Anton\, LC-39A utilizes NASA archival footage and poetry by Bertolt Brecht to explore the march of history and technological progress as it intersects with ideology and cultural memory. \n  \nLunch Poems (Remix)\, Dir. J Triangular\, 2026\, Colombia\, Taiwan\, NYC\, 4min. \nIn Lunch Poems (Remix)\, J dusts off VHS tapes recorded in 2017 with their friend and collaborator Miss Expanding Universe (Ashley Yang-Thompson). They remix them into a fiery manifesto and intimate video diary — a collage of poetic art adventures in the streets of New York. The film captures the raw energy of poets claiming the city\, blending performance\, diary\, and queer rebellion. A hypnotic soundtrack of fragments sung by the poet threads the work together\, creating a bold\, immersive experience.\n \n  \nObjectionable Fruit\, Dirs. Hogan Seidel\, Gabby Follett\, 2026\, United States\, Canada\, Germany\, 15 min. \nObjectionable Fruit is an experimental documentary examining the Ginkgo tree\, a living fossil celebrated for its resilience and unique capacity to change sexes\, defying human-imposed binaries. Using the Ginkgo as a metaphor for fluidity and endurance\, the film weaves together themes of gender identity\, ecological interconnectedness\, and the nuanced complexities of queer existence. \nAccess notes: Flashing Imagery. \n  \nA CURE FOR SCARS\, Dir. Autojektor\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 3 min. \nRestoration//Cleanses with Fire. The machine reclaims the ugly body. And replaces it with a digestible corpse. A Futile conversion. Pointless violence. \nAccess notes: Flashing Imagery. \n  \nTTT (Tᄐト)\, Dir. kimura byol lemoine\, 2025\, Canada\, 3 min. \n‘In the 100th episode of “Testo du jeudi” (TTT in English)\, Roman\, Korean (Hangeul) and Japanese (Katana) syllabic alphabets feature the word ‘TRANS’ in a sketch by Kě.’  \n  \nMarked\, Dir. Wrik Mead\, 2026\, Canada\, 3 min. \nMarked is an experimental film that merges Super 8 and 16mm formats to examine the presence of queer intimacy. At its center are two shirtless men\, locked in an embrace\, dancing — a quiet yet radical act. Overlaid with hand-inked 16mm film\, their bodies become both seen and obscured\, highlighted and erased. Through this layered process\, Marked reflects on how queer love is shaped\, celebrated\, and scarred by the society that surrounds it. \nAccess notes: Flashing Imagery. \n  \nTrivakra\, Dir. Sofia Angst\, 2025\, Brazil\, 10 min. \nTrivakra moves through the memories of a child\, crossed by gender biotechnologies that reshape their body and their history. The gushing syringe of a travesti ritual of hormonal transmutation opens a glitch in the matrix of gender and video\, where bones and skins are dematerialized into cyberspace. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery\, flashing lights\, loud noises. \n  \nunbelong\, Dir. Pars Loren\, 2025\, Germany\, Türkiye\, 9 min. \nAt its heart\, unbelong is a philosophical inquiry posed through visceral experience. The narrated poem questions whether we move through time or time moves through us\, capturing the profound stillness of a moment when everything changes. It’s about the act of abandoning a home that abandoned you first\, and the sharp blade hidden in the question\, “Where are you from?“ unbelong is for anyone who understands that migration is not a simple journey but a rupture\, and that for some\, movement is not freedom but a painful necessity for survival. It is a work of grief\, hope\, and transformation. \nContent notes: Discussion of police violence\, transphobia. \n  \nthe bird sings with its fingers\, Dir. Marguerite Carson\, 2025\, Australia\, United Kingdom\, 5 min. \nSeabirds dip in and out of frame drawing on the ancient divination of the flights of birds\, asking when is a prophecy encountered and when is it voiced. \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: Trivakra\, Dir. Sofia Angst\, 2025 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/collaged/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,European premiere,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Shorts,UK premiere,World premiere ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Trivakra-IMG_03-Sofia-Arantes-300dpi.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261020T181500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261020T200000 DTSTAMP:20260915T051216Z CREATED:20260915T051216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T051216Z UID:13785-1792520100-1792526400@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:Sapphics & Psychics DESCRIPTION:  \nListen to this Event Page\n  \nTelepathy\, psychic yearning\, ghostly cruising…. And that’s just the first date.  \nJoin 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\, connect telepathically with our partners\, haunt a darkened cinema at night\, and party underground the smokey street of Paris. A programme to explore that lesbian urge to connect on the astral plane. \nAfter the screening\, join us for a panel discussion on queer film events in Glasgow and beyond\, hosted by Nancy Holt and Aga Paulina Młyńczak from Sapphic Cinema Club\, and Nat Lall from SQIFF. \nCurated by Nancy Holt & Aga Paulina Młyńczak from Sapphic Cinema Club and Nat Lall. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and panel discussion. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nEnglish\, French\, Portuguese audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles\nLive Captioning for the introduction and panel discussion.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 71 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 15+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nFilms in this programme include: \nClose\, Dir. MV Brown\, 2021\, United Kingdom\, 10 min. \n‘Close’ is a video work consisting of the artist’s digital dopplegänger\, MV Beta\, reciting a poem stitched from clinical language taken directly from the artist’s medical notes\, interrupted by their own words. It begins in a tight close-up on the avatar’s face\, relaying something between report + confession; MV Beta is a mask that reveals. \nContent notes: Discussion of explicit surgical medical language. \n  \nMore Than Happy\, Dir. Tan Wei Keong\, 2025\, Singapore\, 7 min. \nIn a queer utopia\, two couples sit in conversation at a restaurant\, waiting for service that will never arrive. As hunger grows\, they talk about time and happiness. One dreams of a mother’s blessing\, another of ghosts in the past. Not wanting to wait forever\, they decide to leave. \n  \nMy Senses Are All I Have To Offer\, Dir. Isadora Neves Marques\, 2024\, Portugal\, 20 min. \nLourdes and Lana met telepathically using “sensory pills”\, a technology that allows access to other people’s sensations from a distance. After months of relationship\, Lourdes decides to visit the country house of her parents\, Vicente and Carl\, and introduce them to her girlfriend. \nContent notes: Depiction of sexual references. Discussion of class\, death. \n  \nDream Factory\, Dir. Alex Matraxia\, 2023\, United Kingdom\, 6 min. \nAn experimental erotic thriller\, Dream Factory explores the historical role of cinemas as cruising sites\, as well as cinema’s relationship with desire and fantasy. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery\, loud noises. \nContent notes: Depiction of cigarette use. \n  \nDaughters of Destiny\, Dir. Valentin Noujaïm\, 2021\, France\, 28 min. \nOn the closing night of their favorite bar\, Eden\, Crystal and Ibtissame\, experience strange events. Crystal mysteriously disappears\, kidnapped by a purple star. Eden sets out to find the one she loves\, only to discover that Crystal is trapped in a parallel and fantastic world. \nContent notes: Depiction of alcohol use\, cigarette use. \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: Three black and brown people glow in irridescent lighting. The image is full of soft dark purple tones and some shimmers of orange. URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/sapphics-psychics/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Shorts,UK premiere ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Screenshot-2026-09-08-at-21.48.01.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261021T131500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261021T150000 DTSTAMP:20260915T051148Z CREATED:20260915T051148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T051148Z UID:13797-1792588500-1792594800@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:Mini Docs DESCRIPTION:  \nListen to this Event Page\n  \nThis 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 fact that filmmakers don’t need a lot of time\, or budget\, to get their story across. Come and be inspired by this multi-faceted screening that educates\, humbles and wows in many ways. \nThe documentaries will be followed by a Q&A between Maddie Lock (Family Tides)\, Olivia Hird (Intermittent & Continuous)\, Rosie Bowyer (Listen)\, and curator Nat Lall. \nCurated by Nat Lall. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and Q&A. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nEnglish\, French\, German\, Polish\, Russian\, Tagalog audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles\nLive Captioning for the introduction and Q&A.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 66 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 15+  \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nFilms in this programme include: \nDrag Kings: Question Time. A Day with the Fans\, Dir. Orlando Myxx\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 9 min. \nAfter 10 years on the stage\, PECS Drag Kings Collective gathers for a one-day festival in London to celebrate their anniversary with the queer community. Critical thinker and Drag King fan Diana G. penetrates Shoreditch Town Hall to ask the audience a crucial question. Have Drag Kings and Things changed the landscape of Gender and Sexuality? In this short documentary the camera turns towards the audience of a London Drag Kings Festival to understand what Drag Kinging means to them\, how it has evolved and what challenges it faces. \n  \nSome of us really can’t\, Dir. Noa Meli\, 2026\, Germany\, Poland\, Switzerland\, 10 min. \nThis film is about the fear of prejudice\, heteronormative posters and statues\, binary clothing stores… and a coming-out that never happened. In 2019\, places in Poland became known in the media as “LGBT-free zones”. This film\, set in one of these zones\, explores why LGBTQAI+ people are invisible. Is it possible to remain invisible for a lifetime? After the filmmaker fails to find affected individuals\, they start looking for the reasons behind their invisibility. \nContent notes: Depiction of queerphobia. Discussion of isolation\, suicide. \n  \nThe Beat in my Chest\, Dir. Ramona Bendig\, 2025\, Germany\, Spain\, 7 min \nSerhii\, a young deaf Ukrainian rebuilding his life in Barcelona after fleeing war and homophobia\, experiences music beyond sound. Through techno’s bass and vibrations\, rhythm becomes something felt deep within his body. Between friends\, work and nights of techno\, the film discovers a life lived with an infectious appetite for being alive. \nContent notes: Discussion of displacement\, mental health\, police brutality. \n  \nAll the Worlds I Could Lift\, Dir. Samantha Lee\, 2026\, Philippines\, 6 min. \nA group of queer women use weightlifting to reclaim bodies and spaces that have excluded them as they redefine strength and use female masculinity as an act of resistance. \n  \nlisten\, Dir. Rosie Bowyer\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 11 min. \nlisten is a short film about Listen Gallery\, an experimental sound arts gallery and communal listening space run by Riah Naief. As the security of DIY spaces becomes increasingly precarious\, how can we work together and fight to build a future that supports community-centred\, free spaces such as Listen Gallery? \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery\, flashing lights. \n  \nIntermittent & Continuous\,  Dir. Olivia Hird\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 11 min. \nIn the Peak District\, Rita is living out a childhood dream: working in a quarry. In a male-dominated industry\, she carves out her place through determination and persistence. Listening closely to the machinery\, past and present unexpectedly converge\, transporting her towards the irretrievable. \nContent notes: Discussion of bereavement. \n  \nFamily Tides\, Dir. Maddie Lock\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 10 min. \nEveryone deserves to feel like they belong in their hometown. Family Tides is a documentary that explores growing up queer and trans in small seaside towns\, opening up the conversation about what it feels like to lack a traditional sense of home\, and how that can be found in community. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery. \nContent notes: Discussion of homophobia\, transphobia. \n  \nWhile construction is in progress\, shops will remain open\, Dir. Mordred Guadagno\, 2026\, France\, 2 min. \nBetween 2021 and 2025\, the city was under massive construction to prepare for a new streetcar line. As the works finally come to an end\, I grapple with the ending of a construction of my own. \nContent notes: Depiction of needles. \n \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: The Beat in my Chest\, Dir. Ramona Bendig\, 2025 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/mini-docs/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BSL,Deaf,Descriptive Subtitles,European premiere,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Shorts,World premiere ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/The_Beat_in_My_Chest_Still_03.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261021T154500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261021T174500 DTSTAMP:20260915T051133Z CREATED:20260915T051133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T051133Z UID:13803-1792597500-1792604700@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:I Am Going to Miss You DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nAmanda 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\, pragmatic and ambitious\, is focused on consolidating her newly launched legal career. As routines clash and expectations grow heavier\, their relationship starts to fracture. When Amanda meets João at work\, unexpected feelings arise\, further destabilizing what she and Caio have built. Caught between preserving a shared past and embracing uncertain new paths\, Amanda and Caio must confront difficult choices that will redefine who they are individually and together. \nAfter the screening\, Daniel Ribeiro will join SQIFF Director Indigo Korres in conversation. \nCurated by Indigo Korres and Ricky Mastro. Presented in partnership with Mostra Queer Brasil. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and discussion. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nPortuguese audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles\nLive Captioning for the introduction and discussion.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset.\nContent notes: Depiction of alcohol use\, cannabis use\, cigarette use\, needles\, nudity. Discussion of abortion\, pregnancy.\n\nThis screening is 87 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 15+  \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: I Am Going to Miss You\, Dir. Daniel Ribeiro\, 2026 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/i-am-going-to-miss-you/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,Feature,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Trans ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/I-AM-GOING-TO-MISS-YOU_05_small-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261021T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261021T194500 DTSTAMP:20260915T051119Z CREATED:20260915T051119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T051119Z UID:13807-1792605600-1792611900@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:This Feeling Won't Leave DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nWhat happens when a feeling takes hold of the body and refuses to loosen its grip?  \nMoving 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 experience is turned into a public argument.  \nAcross the programme\, bodies become places where these feelings gather and leave their mark. Some characters surrender to what they feel\, while others fight to remain themselves against the expectations placed upon them. Together\, the films ask what remains after an encounter\, a transformation or a moment of exposure\, and what it means when that feeling simply refuses to fade.  \nThe screening will also feature a live poetry reading by Glasgow-based poet and performer Gray Crosbie\, whose work explores queerness\, intimacy and the body. \nCurated by Huss. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and poetry reading. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nEnglish\, French\, Greek\, Portuguese\, Turkish audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles\nLive Captioning for the introduction and poetry reading.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 88 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 15+  \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nFilms in this programme include: \n  \nGorgones\, Dir. Dimitris Tsakaleas\, Lida Vartzioti\, 2025\, Greece\, 15 min. \nOn the shores of a lake bordered by blood-red earth\, two women are in love. One wants to stay\, the other wants to go home. As they wander around the lake\, this disagreement prompts them to take stock of their relationship. As the day fades and a strange despair washes over them\, a question arises. Where do they really come from? \nContent notes: Depiction of harassment\, nudity\, queerphobia\, strong language use\, transphobia. \n  \nLázaro’s Temptation\, Dir. Diego Paulino\, 2025\, Brazil\, 26 min. \nLázaro has been working out for some time\, but the results he expects never come. When his gym’s facial recognition camera malfunctions and he ends up signing up for the premium plan\, his life transforms—and so does his face. Between locker room escapades and algorithms that know him better than he knows himself\, his obsession with becoming the best version of himself begins to blur the line between who he is and who he wants to be. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery. \nContent notes: Depiction of sexual content\, surveillance. Discussion of body image. \n  \nKrizalit\, Dir. Naz Tokgöz\, Aranxta Ibarra\, 2025\, Türkiye\, 16 min. \nIn a welcoming yet complex Turkey\, Deniz confronts her romance with Melisa and her own nature. \nContent notes: Depiction of homophobia\, strong language use. Discussion of conversion therapy\, death\, mental heath\, suicide. \n  \nRope\, Dir. Lucas Ikaika Manuel-Scheibe\, 2024\, United States\, 13 min. \nDuring a night of erotic bondage\, Aki begins to recall the story of his grandmother’s disappearance. An “ama”\, or “sea woman” of Japan\, her gradual descent into the ocean’s loving arms reflects Aki’s drift from the ropes and lover who bind him. \nContent notes: Depiction of BDSM\, partial nudity\, sexual content\, suggestions of suicide. \n  \nNo Contest\, Dir. Olivier Wright\, 2025\, France\, 18 min. \nVictoire\, a 20-year-old judoka\, has her trans identity outed in the middle of a tournament. Sonia\, her next opponent\, refuses to fight her. In the following hour\, the gym turns into a battleground where athletes\, parents\, and officials clash. As debates over fairness and safety escalate\, Victoire refuses to become a symbol and focuses on what matters most: her next match. \nContent notes: Depiction of outing\, transphobia. \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: No Contest\, Dir. Olivier Wright\, 2025 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/this-feeling-wont-leave/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Shorts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/NoContest_StillHD_02.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261022T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261022T150000 DTSTAMP:20260915T051057Z CREATED:20260915T051057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T051057Z UID:13855-1792674000-1792681200@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:We Are Eternal DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nLove 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 locked out of their own home\, borrowing warmth from strangers until morning. A father and estranged son bound by an ache neither can name. A deaf man and a stranger\, something quiet beginning\, while an old friendship watches close by. \nThese films hold each of these bonds as a kind of eternity\, not because it lasts unchanged\, but because it keeps being shaped and reshaped. Every connection here is built\, lost\, and often but not always built again. Eternity is not permanence\, but persistence. Love that survives by being chosen\, over and over again. \nCurated by Indigo Korres and Ricky Mastro. Presented in partnership with Mostra Queer Brasil. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nBrazilian Sign Language\, French\, Portuguese\, Spanish audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for the introduction.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 56 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 18+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nFilms in this programme include: \nEverything You Want\, Dir. Mariana Machado\, 2025\, Brazil\, 20 min. \nAfter finding themselves locked out of their house\, three queer Brazilian lovers spend a day and night navigating the streets of Brussels. We follow their journey and the people they encounter along the way. The film offers a heartfelt portrayal of their search for belonging in a foreign land. \nContent notes: Depiction of alcohol use\, cigarette use. \n  \nIceberg\, Dir. Will Domingos\, 2021\, Brazil\, 25 min \nDuring the COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro\, water runs dry at a LGBTQI+ youth shelter. Renê\, one of the residents\, paints the anguish of a spirit haunting the mansion’s pipes. Across town\, his estranged father\, a solitary plumber\, is tormented by the same dark curse. \nContent notes: Depiction of partial nudity. \n  \nWhat’s Left of Us When Humanity Fades?\, Dir. Vita Pereira\, 2026\, Brazil\, 23 min. \nAfter the death of a friend\, five travestis discover a mysterious hole inside their own home. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery. \nContent notes: Depiction of cigarette use\, misgendering\, religion\, strong language use. Discussion of death. \n  \nMorpheus and Charon\, Dirs. Luiz Ulian\, Jocimar Dias Jr.\, 2026\, Brazil\, 14 min. \nA throuple of queer elderly men deals with the proximity of death — Zito\, who has been diagnosed with dementia\, and his two lovers\, Morpheus and Charon. As the illness progresses\, the boundaries between dream and reality blur: Zito imagines his last days as if his whole life was a Brazilian samba musical extravaganza\, while his partners in life take care of him until their last farewell. \nContent notes: Depiction of nudity\, explicit sex. \n  \nWaves of Silence (Special Preview Screening)\, Dir. Caio J. Bonfim\, 2026\, Brazil\, 20 min. \nBetween helping his mother run her hotel and looking after his birds\, Amon who is deaf\, feels an immediate connection with new water delivery man\, Roberto\, as best friend Daniella sets her eyes on him also. \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: Iceberg\, Dir. Will Domingos\, 2021 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/we-are-eternal/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BSL,Deaf,Descriptive Subtitles,European premiere,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Shorts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Screenshot-2026-09-08-at-23.32.17.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261022T154000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261022T172500 DTSTAMP:20260915T051041Z CREATED:20260915T051041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T051041Z UID:13860-1792683600-1792689900@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:Beyond Words DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nWhat can a body say that words cannot?  \nBeyond 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.  \nAn alphabet is danced through ruins. A bog breathes. A kiss turns into a choir. A pop star battles her own manufactured personas. Elsewhere\, bodies move under surveillance\, fall in love\, grieve and find new ways to make themselves understood.  \nThese films do not exist outside language. They stretch it\, remix it and have a little fun with what it can become.  \nCurated by Nat Lall & Huss. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and performance. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nArabic\, English audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for the introduction and performance.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 83 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 18+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nFilms in this programme include: \nMINT\, Dir. Tomasz Grabowski\, 2025\, Poland\, 18 min. \nMINT is a silent experimental journey into a world without sound. Across five chapters\, Deaf bodies\, memories and gestures become a language of their own. Through Polish Sign Language\, surreal imagery and moments of intimacy\, the film explores silence not as absence\, but as a space of expression\, desire and imagination. \n  \nDeep Breath\, Dir. Freya Spencer-Wood\, 2024\, United Kingdom\, 4 min. \nBuilding upon data produced by peatland scientists\, Deep Breath showcases the dance between the mythical will-o’-the-wisp\, phenomena of bog breathing and the landownership crisis in Scotland. The film discusses the tension between cultural perception of peatlands and landscape restoration in the context of an accelerating and unregulated carbon market. \nContent notes: Discussion of climate crises. \n  \nSamodiva (kissing choir)\, Dirs. Tomislav Latinovic\, Mathilda Harrison\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 19 min. \nSometimes anticipation outshines the satisfaction of a kiss. I’m excited by the build-up and the tension\, when my hairs stand on end and my body feels fizzy. Things that were gross ten minutes ago become beautiful and erotic. We reach this meditative state in our thoughts\, sinking into our future satisfaction. Release is tainted by the knowledge that I’ve done this before\, and I’ll need to do it again. Live scored\, performed and recorded by the Voicing Choir\, a free community choir based in London. \nAccess notes: Loud sounds.  \nContent notes: Depiction of eroticism. \n  \nCHARITY!\, Dir. Stephen T Lally\, 2025\, Ireland\, United Kingdom\, 15 min.  \nSet on the eve of the Millenium\, ‘CHARITY!’ tells the story of a closeted Irish Y2K pop princess who undergoes a surreal assault on the senses as she wrestles with the cost of fame and a diabolical record label who’ll stop at NOTHING to make her a star. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery. \nContent notes: Depiction of mild body horror\, and mild violence. \n  \nAbjad Hawaz (أبجد هوز)\, Dir. Hadi Moussally\, 2025\, France\, Lebanon\, Spain\, 5 min. \nAbjad Ḥawaz (أبجد هوز) takes its name from the ancient ordering of the Arabic alphabet. Through the body of Salma Zahore\, each letter is danced and embodied in the ruins of Barcelona. Blending fashion\, music\, poetry\, and performance\, the film reclaims a language often feared and misunderstood\, turning it into a celebration of identity\, resilience\, and artistic freedom. \n  \nHave/Are/Will Always\, Dir. Sam Digges Hunter\, 2025\, United States\, 5 min. \nOn February 22nd\, 2025\, a small group of transgender people gathered in Charlotte\, North Carolina\, USA\, where they enjoyed each other’s company and food. The resulting video is the only documentation of this event. Soundtrack by Scotty Townsend. \n  \nUBIQUITOUS\, Dir. Masha Maroutitch\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 7 min. \nA young man is forced to confront feelings of self-rejection and isolation as he struggles to express his love for his best friend. ‘UBIQUITOUS’ is a short film that blends music\, visual poetry and an emotionally grounded performance to tell the story of a young man battling with internalised homophobia and unrequited love. \n  \nHow To Dance\, Dir. Aileen Ye\, 2026\, Netherlands\, United Kingdom\, 10 min. \nWhen every movement is surveilled\, the body learns to speak in new ways\, sensing freedom not merely as an idea\, but as a vibration. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery. \nContent notes: Discussion of racism\, surveillance. \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: MINT\, Dir. Tomasz Grabowski\, 2025 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/beyond-words/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,European premiere,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Shorts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/MINT-03-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261022T181500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261022T200500 DTSTAMP:20260915T051030Z CREATED:20260915T051030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T051030Z UID:13864-1792692900-1792699500@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:Notes From a Collapsing World DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nThe world is ending all the time. Politically\, ecologically\, inside the body\, inside the home\, and across places that no longer offer safety. \nThese 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 the countryside exposes the distance between belonging and safety. A journey through the occupied West Bank becomes an encounter with violence\, while two lovers at the edge of an unfamiliar world are forced to ask where home really is. \nAcross fiction\, essay\, documentary and experimental moving image\, these films move through grief\, displacement\, occupation and impossible returns. But collapse is not only an ending here. It is also where other forms of life begin to grow: pleasure as resistance\, memory as archive\, nature as collaborator\, and community as something built within hostile conditions. \nNotes from a Collapsing World is a programme about staying with the damage without letting it have the final word. It is about lovers\, landscapes\, borders\, loss and breath\, and the small\, stubborn ways queer life continues to reach towards a future. \nWe are delighted to welcome William Hong-xiao Wei\, director of Elegy for the Lost\, who will introduce the film before the screening. \nCurated by Huss. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nArabic\, English\, French\, German\, Hebrew\, Swiss German audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for the introduction.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 91 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 18+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nFilms in this programme include: \nThe Measure of Drowning\, Dirs. Laure Giappiconi\, Elisa Monteil\, La Fille Renne\, 2026\, France\, 7 min. \nWe no longer recognised neither flow nor forest. We had been halved\, quartered\, decimated. We had been fragmented\, shattered. The measure of drowning is an ecosexual fable about breathing better even when drowning\, finding ways to resist the collapse of life and re-nourishing desires. \nContent notes: Depiction of explicit sex\, nudity. Discussion of capitalism\, violence. \n  \nElegy for the Lost\, Dir. William Hong-xiao Wei\, 2025\, France\, Spain\, United Kingdom\, China\, 30 min. \nThrough the introspective voiceover of a young post-pandemic Chinese migrant in Europe\, the essay film interweaves her private memories of queer intimacy with public narratives of resistance\, confronting the personal cost of existing in the current age of turbulence and regression\, in a world that demands their silence. \nAccess notes: Flashing lights\, strobes. \nContent notes: Depiction of violence. Discussion of censorship\, COVID-19 pandemic\, displacement\, homophobia\, police\, surveillance. \n  \nThe Headgear\, Dir. Marcel Hörler\, 2026\, Switzerland\,  18 min. \nA hardened state that inscribes itself into bodies. Fascinating and tormenting at once. In search of queer liberation\, we walk along the memories of the director. To the places where he grew up in the countryside. He wants to go back\, but he cannot. Past idyllic landscapes and frozen waters\, towards communities that promise something to hold onto. And so we move\, step by step\, between reality and fiction\, to a place that finally holds him. \n  \nCOYOTES\, Dir. Said Zagha\, 2025\,  Palestine\, France\, United Kingdom\, Jordan\,  20 min. \nA Palestinian surgeon drives home after a long night shift\, but little does she know that a commute through a desolate West Bank road will change her forever. \nContent notes: Depiction of blood\, death\, military\, violence. \n  \nThe Ones Who Walk\, Dirs. Billie Sorribès\, Lucien Pin\, 2026\, France\, 16 min. \nOn the shores of a lake bordered by blood-red earth\, two women are in love. One wants to stay\, the other wants to go home. As they wander around the lake\, this disagreement prompts them to take stock of their relationship. As the day fades and a strange despair washes over them\, a question arises. Where do they really come from? \nContent notes: Discussion of capitalism\, facism. \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: COYOTES\, Dir. Said Zagha\, 2025 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/notes-from-a-collapsing-world/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Shorts,UK premiere ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/COYOTES_Still-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261022T203000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261022T223000 DTSTAMP:20260915T051008Z CREATED:20260915T051008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T051008Z UID:13867-1792701000-1792708200@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:Scottish Shorts 2 DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nScottish Shorts 2 moves across Edinburgh summers\, dinner tables\, supermarket bins\, political stages and the search for beauty in a new home.  \nThese 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\, conversations become inaccessible\, outrage turns into spectacle and discarded food becomes the centre of a new ritual.  \nMoving between fiction\, documentary and experiment\, the programme finds tenderness\, humour and resistance in unexpected places\, asking what remains when the world fails to make room for you.  \nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A with local filmmakers. All films in this screening and ‘Scottish Shorts 1’ are in with a chance to win the title of Best Scottish Short. The winner will be announced at the closing screening of SQIFF 2026.  \nCurated by Nat Lall & Huss. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and Q&A. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nBritish Sign Language\, English\, Scottish Gaelic\, Tagalog audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for the introduction and Q&A.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 92 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 18+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nFilms in this programme include: \nBinderella\, Dir. Edie Barnabas\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 8 min. \nPraying to their Goddess of the Bins\, Binderella\, a community rummages through supermarket bins in search of sovereignty\, sustainability\, and a fully intact trifle. \n  \nPicture This\, Dir. Emma Malins\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 13 min. \nPicture This is an experimental documentary focusing on what it means to love and enjoy cinema when you can’t see the image. It explores the power of shared stories and the importance of audio description and accessible film. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery. \nContent notes: Discussion of sight loss\, social isolation. \n  \nEach to their own World\, Dir. Klarissa Webster\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 15 min. \nEach to Their Own World offers intimate insight into the lives of oral deaf people. Experience a taste of their lives navigating social norms and clashing cultures. \n  \nWhat Remains\, Dir. Bernardo Battistini\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 11 min. \nWhat Remains follows two boys in Edinburgh over the course of a summer\, as their fragile relationship is tested by a rare genetic illness. As memory begins to slip away\, one of them must remember for both. \n  \nThe Room Where It Happened\, Dir. Chris Harrison\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 8 min. \nAs presidential candidate Nathan Stanaway prepares to address a cheering crowd\, young intern Charlotte emerges from a private encounter with him. As his polished public persona gives way to increasingly divisive rhetoric\, Charlotte is left confronting the reality behind the man on stage and finding the strength to resist. \nContent notes: Depiction of discrimination\, implication of sexual coercion\, far-right politics\, religion. \n  \nNight Adrift\, Dir. Yuki Neoh\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 23 min. \nA short experimental film about difficulties finding pride as a trans woman. \nContent notes: Depiction of and partial nudity\, sexual imagery\, strong language use. \n  \ni want things to be beautiful: a love letter to the becoming\, Dir. Sean Coyle\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 15 min. \nIWTTBB explores different concepts of love by seeking beauty in its surroundings. Through intimate visual reflections and poetic imagery\, the film becomes a sentimental love letter to the self in the progress of becoming. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery. \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: Each to their own World\, Dir. Klarissa Webster\, 2025 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/scottish-shorts-2-4/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BSL,Deaf,Descriptive Subtitles,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Shorts ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/ETTOW_2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261023T154500 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261023T173000 DTSTAMP:20260915T050935Z CREATED:20260915T050935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T050935Z UID:13877-1792770300-1792776600@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:A Frown Gone Mad DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nBotox\, Revolax\, Sculptra\, Hyaron and Juvederm: all sorts of products\, perhaps not all entirely legal\, sell like hot cakes in Bouba’s Lebanese beauty salon. Skilfully\, though not always gently\, she jabs a constant stream of clients with all kinds of injectables to temporarily reduce their facial wrinkles and frown lines.  \nDirector Omar Mismar films the patients from a fixed position as they recline on the white plastic-wrapped treatment table. Young and old\, women and men\, from housewives to hip influencers\, it seems like the whole country is voluntarily undergoing these painful and gory treatments\, all of which are shown in closeup.  \nDuring the treatment\, the threat of war is a regular topic. Will war break out? Will you go and fight? Mixedup memories of wars and explosions reveal how violence has been an almost constant presence in the lives of Beirut’s inhabitants for decades.  \nBouba’s medicine is rough humour and a magic injection. As one customer aptly puts it: “Most people in line here are tired and unhappy. Bouba takes the pain from inside and works on it from the outside.”  \nThe screening will open with an extended introduction by a Glasgow-based artist. \nCurated by Huss. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nArabic audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for the introduction.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset.\nContent notes: Depiction of mild blood\, needles. Discussion of beauty standards\, bombing\, illegal israel occupation\, war.\n\nThis screening is 111 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 18+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: A Frown Gone Mad\, Dir. Omar Mismar\, 2024 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/a-frown-gone-mad/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BIPOC,BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,Feature,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/A-Frown-Gone-Mad-Film-still-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261023T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261023T200000 DTSTAMP:20260915T050851Z CREATED:20260915T050851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T050851Z UID:13881-1792778400-1792785600@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:Adam’s Apple DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nAdam’s Apple is an intimate\, collaborative documentary told through the dual perspectives of Adam\, a transgender teen\, and his mother\, visual artist Amy Jenkins\, that offers an authentic and tender counterpoint to the hostility facing trans youth today. Adam’s journey balances the milestones of gender transition with the rhythms of adolescence. As Adam asserts his identity and steps out into the world\, his parents grapple with the challenges of raising a teen while learning to let go. Through a visually poetic approach\, the film transforms a deeply personal archive\, collected over two decades\, into a powerful\, joyful testament to the beauty and difficulty of reckoning with profound change. \nAfter the screening\, Adam Sieswerda will join SQIFF Director Indigo Korres in conversation. \nPresented in partnership with Scottish Documentary Institute. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and Q&A. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nEnglish audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for the introduction and Q&A.\nAudio Description for the film.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset.\nAccess notes: Flashing imagery.\nContent notes: Depiction of hospitalisation\, needles. Discussion of COVID-19 pandemic\, mental health\, surgery.\n\nThis screening is 98 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 15+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: Adam’s Apple\, Dir. Amy K. Jenkins\, 2026 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/adams-apple/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Audio description,BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,Feature,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Trans ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/ADAMSAPPLE_STILL_01_PREFERRED_copr_Jenkins2026-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261023T203000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261023T223000 DTSTAMP:20260915T050834Z CREATED:20260915T050834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T050834Z UID:13899-1792787400-1792794600@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:The Past Is Still Warm DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nThe past does not stay where we leave it. It lingers in bodies\, landscapes\, old recordings\, unfinished love stories and places that may no longer welcome us back.  \nThese films return to what has been lost: a lover in Cairo\, lives cut short before memories could fully form\, a vanished queer community\, a homeland held at a distance\, and a love story surviving only in remnants of the archive. Across essay\, fiction and experimental moving image\, they ask what it means to search for someone\, somewhere or some version of ourselves that can no longer be reached.  \nBut memory is not only an act of mourning. Here\, it becomes ritual\, invention\, performance and transformation. Rivers awaken\, fish offer refuge\, landscapes hold forgotten presences\, and damaged archives become spaces where love can be imagined again.  \nThe Past Is Still Warm is a programme about queer memory and the ways it continues to live among us. It is about longing\, exile\, survival and the fragile traces through which the absent remain close.  \nFollowing the screening\, Matthew Arthur Williams\, director of Another Allegory\, will present a live sound performance. \nCurated by Huss. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and performance. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nCatalan\, Dutch\, English\, French\, Korean\, Turkish audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for the introduction and performance.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 88 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 18+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nFilms in this programme include: \nCairo Streets\, Dir. Abdallah Taia\, 2025\, France\, 19 min. \nJanuary 2007. I am back to Cairo. For work. You have changed your phone number\, Omar. I must find you. I love you… Abdellah. \nContent notes: Depiction of cigarette use. \n  \nthis is (not) your ocean\, Dir.  Jordi Wijnalda\, 2024\, Belgium\, Netherlands\, Spain\, United Kingdom\, United States\, 14 min. \nQueer bodies attract\, fall in love\, falter\, perish. Are our bodies more vulnerable\, and therefore our loves\, too? A poetic video letter; an intimate experiment of heart\, head and hormones; and a loving ode to those who have passed on before memories together could be made. \nContent notes: Depiction of sexual elements. Discussion of death\, grief. \n  \nAlzou\, Dir. Ugo Woatzi\, 2025\, Belgium\, 19 min. \nThe queer community that once thrived in the Alzou Valley has disappeared. After years of exile\, Alzou*—the river’s deity—returns. As they move through the dense forest\, the environment seems to breathe with them\, and the land begins to reveal fragments of the community’s memory. Through a ritual act\, Alzou seeks to reconnect with the valley’s living forces\, attempting to rekindle the bond between nature\, spirit\, and those who once inhabited this sacred place. \nAccess notes: Flashing lights. \n  \nTruth Or Fish\, Dir. Seoyeun Park\, 2025\, South Korea\, 9 min. \nAngela\, a young queer musician seeking success in homophobic Korea\, faces a dramatic anti-LGBTQ protest during her concert. Seeking advice from a clan of mysterious fish hiding in the valleys\, Angela learns to perform straight – but is she happy? \nContent notes: Depiction of homophobia\, religion. \n  \nThe Great Tit\, Dir. Kübra Varol\, 2025\, Germany\, Türkiye\, 6 min. \nIt`s complicated being a survivor\, migrant\, non-binary\, having a sort of faith and missing a place that might not welcome you back with open arms because of who you are. The Great Tit (Baştankara) is an experimental film looking back in time and forth\, carrying multitudes\, in appreciation for what home has offered and acknowledging what it could not. \nContent notes: Depiction of religion. Discussion of death\, grief\, mental health\, racism. \n  \nAnother Allegory\, Dir. Matthew Arthur Williams\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 21 min. \nThe film\, Another Allegory is a 21 minute digitally transferred 16mm film that viscerally revisits sites of fractured queer archival information. Shot over a period of three years\, the film takes in a number of pastoral locations in the UK\, and follows violinist Blaize Henry in the pursuit of the right symphony that was once lost. Through a number of performances and camera moments including a burgeoning thunderstorm that desires to break –  the film is akin to a muscle or root that has been damaged or even severed. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery. \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: Truth Or Fish\, Dir. Seoyeun Park\, 2025 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/the-past-is-still-warm/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Shorts,UK premiere ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Truth-or-Fish_Still-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261024T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261024T164500 DTSTAMP:20260915T050816Z CREATED:20260915T050816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T050816Z UID:13896-1792850400-1792860300@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:Animation Now DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nWe welcome you back for another year of Animation Now. This popular screening is\, once again\, bringing you the latest in contemporary animation. Expect groundbreaking and immersive worldbuilding that is extremely impressive on a flat cinema screen. These films use such creative methods to depict emotions. And get ready for those emotions to really tug at your heartstrings\, with tales ranging from tender young love to otherworldly surrealism. \nThe screening will end with a Drawing Social facilitated by Joe Hogan (You & Me).
 \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and workshop. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nArabic\, English\, German\, Mandarin\, Scottish Gaelic\, Vietnamese audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for the introduction and workshop.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 95 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 18+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nFilms in this programme include: \nThe Duties of a Lighthouse Keeper\, Dir. Rory Midhani\, 2026\, Germany\, 8 min. \nThe Duties of a Lighthouse Keeper follows the daily life of an isolated seaman\, all alone on a hard\, hard rock- going about his daily duties whilst yearning for the touch of his fellow man. Is there more to this life than servicing the buoys?  \nContent notes: Depiction of animated nudity\, sex.\n \n  \nOur Mother Mary\, Dirs. Matthew Gunawan\, Ollie Wang\, 2026\, Singapore\, United States\, 3 min. \nIn a Catholic school in Singapore\, Ming follows Aloysius into the woods where a strange statue of mother Mary resides. As the two boys bond\, the statue of Mary seems to shift and crumble with each boundary they break\, and Ming grows more ridden with guilt. \nContent notes: Depiction of violence. \n  \nEyeliner\, Dir. Aisha Boudjillouli\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 9 min. \nNina and her best friend Lily decide to steal an eyeliner\, hoping that they’ve finally found their key to womanhood. However\, when given wildly different receptions to wearing it\, Nina discovers that her journey as a trans girl might not be so easy. \nContent notes: Depiction of transphobia. \n  \nThe Red Wave\, Dir. Jessica Payne\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 6 min. \nTrapped in an endless loop\, this film explores the horrors of menstrual depression. Tangled red material voices the internal monstrous\, a fear that becomes the mundane every day. In highlighting the anxieties of menstrual depression\, the film finds a positive message\, keep building the raft. \n  \nGreenhouse\, Dirs. Markley Cahn von Seelen\, Viktoriia Vasylets\, Ana Sofía Aillaud Trasviña\, 2026\, Switzerland\, 4 min. \nThe hopes for the future of a trans man do not coincide with the expectations of the gay men he meets on dating apps. \nContent notes: Depiction of animated nudity\, implied abortion\, transphobia. \n  \nUnanimated Strangers\, Dir. Róisín Kelly\, 2025\, Ireland\, 5 min. \nSurrounded by strangers\, a woman’s memories of her past relationship unravel and mesh with the people around her. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery. \n  \nForeign Bodies\, Dir. Lysander Wong\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 4 min. \nA simple itch descends into an outbreak with many legs. Certain things will always find their way to the surface. \nContent notes: Depiction of body horror\, needles. \n  \nFlamingo in the Garden\, Dir. Xinhui Ma\, 2025\, United States\, 13 min. \nFlamingo in the Garden follows a Chinese woman recovering from a surfing injury in Morocco. Confined to a hospital bed\, she escapes into a morphine-induced dream garden where desire\, memory\, and pain blur together\, leading her toward healing and renewed connection with her body. \nContent notes: Depiction of drug use\, hospitalisation\, needles. \n  \nThe Tale of Tran Thanh Duong\, Dir. Hachul Le Do\, 2025\, Vietnam\, 8 min. \nIn a world where men are fish\, and women are shrimp\, where does the rest go? \nContent notes: Depiction of animated nudity\, pregnancy. \n  \nMr Sun & Miss Universe\, Dir. Souffien Melad\, 2025\, Netherlands\, 7 min. \nWhen superstar Louis (also known as “Mr Sun” for his golden locks and grand personality) realizes that he is going bald\, he embarks on a cosmic journey in which he re-evaluates his relationship to his aging body. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery. \n  \nBelow the Soup\, Dir. André Correia\, 2025\, Germany\, 5 min. \nWhile taking a bath\, Noah is visited by different versions of himself\, each one taking him further and further away from reality until he nearly drowns inside the soup of his mind. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery. \nContent notes: Depiction of animated nudity\, body horror\, smoking. \n  \nYou & Me\, Dir. Joe Hogan\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 11 min. \nYou & Me\, follows a grumpy little wizard as he attempts to resurrect the dead. Failure after failure\, he just can’t do it by himself\, but upon cloning himself\, he finds that he is his own worst enemy.\n \n  \nDùthchas: Our Underwater Forests\, Dir. Viola Madau\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 12 min. \nAn animated documentary exploring the parallel loss of marine biodiversity and Gaelic culture and language in Scotland. Six interviews with researchers and practitioners\, explore marine ecosystems\, capitalism\, and rewilding alongside a fully animated visual story. \nContent notes: Discussion of capitalism\, climate change. \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: Flamingo in the Garden\, Dir. Xinhui Ma\, 2025 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/animation-now-4/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Shorts,UK premiere ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Screenshot-2026-09-09-at-06.26.28-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261024T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261024T174500 DTSTAMP:20260915T050809Z CREATED:20260915T050809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T050809Z UID:13892-1792857600-1792863900@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:Enchanted Ecologies DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nEnchanted ecologies include performance-based and experimental moving image works by queer and trans visual artists from the Brazilian Amazon. Together\, these films approach nature as a living being and highlight the role of cities in ecological conversations. They engage local non-human and spiritual beings through queer and trans perspectives that discuss environmental degradation\, colonial history\, community building\, and gender-based violence. In this collection\, we see the pervasiveness of non-human-oriented\, but humanly responsible\, practices in the collective imaginary of the Brazilian Amazon. \nThe programme invites us to reconsider what it means to relate to our local and global environments as a tactic to tackle environmental challenges and resist contemporary conservative and colonial forces. The screening includes a short introduction by the curators Danilo Baraúna and Xuanlin Tham\, and will be followed by a conversation with Fi Halliday\, a community gardener from the Govanhill LGBTQIA+ Gardening Group. \nCurated by Danilo Baraúna and Xuanlin Tham. Presented in partnership with Amazônia EcoQueer and Take One Action Film Festivals.  \nThis programme was partially funded by an International Fellowship (IF24\100830) of the British Academy. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and panel discussion. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nPortuguese audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for the introduction and panel discussion.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 42 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 15+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nFilms in this programme include: \nFever\, Dir. Rafa Bqueer\, 2023\, Brazil\, 7min. \nA green zentai-mermaid travels along the rivers of the Amazon until they confront the architecture that endangers their life. It offers a critical discussion about bodies\, monuments\, the Portuguese invasion\, colonial wounds\, and non-official representations of the Amazon. Produced during the ‘Casa Comum’ artistic residency. \nContent notes: Depiction of references to blood. \n  \nThe Island of Self-Contemplation\, Dir. Allyster Fagundes \, 2020\, Brazil\, 3 min. \nIn a world of playfulness\, an enchanted being strives to reconstruct their hybrid body\, fragile from a long-running identity struggle. When their identity emerges\, the being discovers they are stranded on an island of rocks that functions as a metaphor for their battles. In that moment of revelation\, a mysterious creature gives them comfort. \nAccess notes: Disorientating aerial images\, loud noises. \n  \nIdyllic Enchantments\, Dirs. Rafael Matheus Moreira\, João Lucas Pedrosa\, 2022\, Brazil\, 3 min.  \nA reinterpretation of Brazilian mythology that centres LGBTQIAPN+ bodies and friendship within a popular imaginary. Two complementary beings move across different spatial dimensions through a mirror\, seeking comfort within each other’s bodies. \nAccess notes: Disorientating aerial images\, loud noises. \n  \nThe Island of Shadows\, Dir. Allyster Fagundes\, 2020\, Brazil\, 3 min.  \nAn autobiographical film exploring the mermaid myth as a metaphor to express psychological characteristics of the author/performer. This film is based on the archetype of Shadow\, one of the psychological structures formulated by Carl Gustav Jung about the collective unconscious. \nAccess notes: Flashing Lights\, Loud Noises. \n  \nCaipora\, Dir. Rafaela Correia\, 2019\, Brazil\, 8min. \nThis film merges audiovisual experimentation with riverside cultures to tell the histories of Caipora\, the rainforest’s protector\, while discussing local modes of living\, gender-based violence and the recovery of local identities. \nAccess notes: Flashing lights. \nContent notes: Discussion of gender-based violence. \n  \nHeritage\, Dir. Keila-Sankofa\, Music Rafa Militão\, 2025\, Brazil\, 6 min. \n‘Herança’ is a project born between dark waters and enchantments. A musical short film that weaves together cinema\, sound and ancestry\, guiding the narrative whilst keeping a watchful eye on the secrets of the gourd and the enchantments rooted in the Amazon. \n  \n(In)finite body?\, Dir. Ramon Reis\, 2023\, Brazil\, 7 min. \nAn aesthetic and political manifesto that mobilises symbolic struggles to approach ancestry and spatiality. A film about life and death in relation to the urban Amazon and filmed in Belém on the Day of the Dead. \nAccess notes: Disorientating Images\, Flashing Imagery. \nContent notes: Discussion of death. \n  \nI am a crab\, Dir. Nay Jinknss\, 2023\, Brazil\, 2 min. \nThis film portrays a traditional and ecological carnival parade created in 1989 in Curuçá (Brazilian Amazon). During the parade\, people use the mud (tijuco) from local mangroves as costumes\, covering their full bodies before they walk in the streets. On this day\, everyone is a crab\, and Matinta Perêra is around the city. \nAccess notes: Fast camera movement. \n  \nOur Steps Overflow with Thirst\, Dir. Danielle Fonseca\, 2009\, Brazil\, 3 min. \nA performance in which the artist offers her words to the river as a living being. This film is a free adaptation of the poem ‘Water’\, by Edmond Jabés (Cairo\, Egypt\, 1991)\, and is part of the project ‘The fate of language is to become water’. \nAccess notes: Disorientating blurred images. \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: Idyllic Enchantments\, Dirs. Rafael Matheus Moreira and João Lucas Pedrosa\, 2022 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/enchanted-ecologies/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BIPOC,BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,European premiere,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Shorts,Trans,UK premiere,World premiere ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Enchantments-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261024T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261024T190000 DTSTAMP:20260915T050802Z CREATED:20260915T050802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T050802Z UID:13888-1792861200-1792868400@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:Yapping Out Loud: Contagious Thoughts from an Unrepentant Whore DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nOn May 1\, 2002\, transsexual sex worker and performance artist Mirha-Soleil Ross delivered a powerful monologue confronting anti-prostitution rhetoric and campaigns\, exposing their often devastating effects on sex workers’ lives\, rights\, and working conditions. Combining sharp political commentary with striking performance documentation and hard-hitting animal rights footage\, the film moves between anger\, wit\, and resistance. Ross challenges the moral assumptions underpinning campaigns against sex work\, while drawing connections between different forms of oppression and control. Fierce\, provocative\, and uncompromising\, the work becomes a manifesto for bodily autonomy\, solidarity\, and freedom for all. \nAfter the screening\, Jaye Hudson of TGirlsonFilm will be in conversation with writer\, filmmaker and trans daughter of Ross\, Morgan M Page\, discussing Ross’s prolific oeuvre\, including her video work\, trans film festival\, and the iconic recently republished zine Gender Trash from Hell. \nCurated by Jaye Hudson and Morgan M Page. Presented in partnership with TGirlsonFilm. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and panel discussion. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nEnglish\, French audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for the introduction and panel discussion.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset.\nContent notes: Depiction of strong explicit language. Discussion of death\, drugs\, incarceration\, police\, sex\, sex work\, sexual abuse\, transphobia\, violence.\n\nThis screening is 74 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 18+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: Yapping Out Loud: Contagious Thoughts from an Unrepentant Whore\, Dir. Mark Karbusicky\, Mirha-Soleil Ross\, 2002 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/yapping-out-loud-contagious-thoughts-from-an-unrepentant-whore/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,Feature,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Trans ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/video-still-102-13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261024T203000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261024T223000 DTSTAMP:20260915T050750Z CREATED:20260915T050750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T050750Z UID:13885-1792873800-1792881000@www.sqiff.org SUMMARY:Closing Gala: Hunky Jesus DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nJoin us for the closing event of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival as we celebrate another year of exceptional queer cinema. This year’s closing film is Hunky Jesus\, a documentary capturing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s iconic take on Easter Sunday. The sisters celebrate Easter with a massive drag competition in which people compete to be the hunkiest Jesus. It documents how community and camp can be powerful tools for resistance and solidarity. Essentially it’s an extremely fun\, silly work of queer cinema. It’s a guaranteed mood booster. And\, a fantastic way to wrap up another great year of SQIFF.
  \nThe film will be followed by a panel discussion with House of Nunsense\, Glasgow’s own chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.  \nThe winner of Best Scottish Short will be announced at the start of this event. Please join us in congratulating the winner and all our filmmakers on another year of SQIFF. \nCurated by Nat Lall. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. 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! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and Q&A. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nEnglish audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for the introduction and Q&A.\nAudio Description for the film.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset.\nContent notes: Depiction of alcohol use\, mild sexual imagery\, religion. Discussion of AIDS epidemic\, death\, queerphobia.\n\nThis screening is 85 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 18+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: Hunky Jesus\, Dir. Jennifer Kroot\, 2026 URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/closing-gala-hunky-jesus/ LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Audio description,BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,Feature,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.sqiff.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HunkyJesus_Still_4K_1.10.1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR