Scottish queer cinema goes DIY with 9 world premieres of subversive and irreverent shorts made in this years' SQIFF queer filmmaking course: SATURATE. Positioning queer filmmaking in Scotland as cinematic counterculture, SATURATE was a Glasgow based filmmaking course that brought together 31 emerging LGBTQIA+ Scotland-based directors to develop zero-budget short films over the […]
Amanda and Caio are a T4T couple who have shared seven years of love and dreams. When they finally decide to move in together, the intimacy of daily life begins to expose their differences. Caio, romantic and idealistic, longs for emotional stability and a future built together while working at a radio station. Amanda, […]
Adam’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 […]
Enchanted 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 […]
On 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 […]
