SQIFF

SQIFF Shorts: Weird and Wild
2018-12-07 15:00 - 16:10 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
An encounter with a strange funeral procession in Bethnal Green, a family losing the plot after meeting their son’s trans girlfriend, a middle-aged gay man seemingly eerily affected by a forest camping trip, and queer feminist gangs doing battle in a violent, dystopian present. Weird and Wild consists of work by filmmakers expert in creating tense atmospheres and queer moods whilst recounting their gripping tall tales.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tomorrow Never Knows
2018-12-08 20:30 - 22:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A sensitive documentary looking at the life and death of Shar Jones, a transgender person with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease, and the difficult choice he and his wife Cynthia Vitale faced as the couple struggled to figure out how to proceed amidst his chaotic decline. Tomorrow Never Knows highlights the couple’s journey as they set a course to Shar’s final days. This tragic love story offers profound implications for increasing awareness about choice in living and in dying.
We have a list of content notes on our website for every film in the programme but please be especially aware that this film contains graphic images of death and dying.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

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

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

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

Workshop: Telling Trans Stories
2018-12-09 12:30 - 14:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Jason Barker is an award-winning filmmaker, comix artist, and occasional stand-up comedian. His recent feature documentary, A Deal With The Universe, uses personal archive and home video diaries to chart the story of how he became pregnant. The film is screening at multiple festivals and has gained a UK distribution deal. Jason will deliver for us an interactive audio visual extravaganza about telling trans stories, exploring ways we can all break free from the sticky web of heteronormativity. Suitable for all levels of filmmaking experience.
Kindly sponsored by Scottish Trans Alliance.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

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

A Deal With The Universe
2018-12-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Documentary A Deal with the Universe is filmmaker Jason Barker’s debut feature. Autobiographical and made entirely from personal archive and home video diaries, the film follows Jason’s incredible story of how he came to give birth to his child, charting over 15 years of his and his partner’s life. This film is groundbreaking in terms of its intimate insights into gender identity and new parenthood.
Jason will join us after the screening to take part in a discussion. In partnership with Rainbow Families.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SQIFF Schools: Norfolk Trans Youth: Respecting & Understanding Differences
2019-10-02 12:00 - 13:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Commissioned by Mancroft Advice Project, a Norwich-based charity, and created by Scottish filmmaker Nicole O’Reilly, Norfolk Trans Youth: Respecting & Understanding Differences gives a voice to young trans people. Incorporating interviews with trans youth in Norfolk, O’Reilly’s debut feature gives its participants space to explain transness in their own words. Issues of discrimination, visibility, and media representation are discussed. Norfolk Trans Youth uses an eclectic pallet of stylistic techniques, attempting to find a new way to use the documentary format to reflect trans experiences. Merging factual documentary with experimental techniques, this is a visually inventive film centring a group often marginalised in conversations about their personhood.
Director Nicole O’Reilly will join us for a Q&A after the screening. Kindly sponsored by LGBT Youth Scotland, who will also join us at the event to give information about their work supporting LGBTI young people.
This is a free event open to school groups only. Recommended for Secondary 4 – 6. To book, please email sami@sqiff.org stating how many places you would like to reserve.
Please note the film includes discussion of transphobia, mental health issues including suicidal thoughts, physical abuse, and sex education.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
Film has English audio with English language subtitles/captions. If you would like to attend this event and require a BSL interpreter for the Q&A, please contact access@sqiff.org. Hearing loop available.
The film is relatively accessible to English-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences with explanatory dialogue and relatively bright images. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
A Quiet Space and programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.

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

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

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

Norfolk Trans Youth: Respecting & Understanding Differences
2019-10-02 15:00 - 16:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Commissioned by Mancroft Advice Project, a Norwich-based charity, and created by Scottish filmmaker Nicole O’Reilly, Norfolk Trans Youth: Respecting & Understanding Differences gives a voice to young trans people. Incorporating interviews with trans youth in Norfolk, O’Reilly’s debut feature gives its participants space to explain transness in their own words. Issues of discrimination, visibility, and media representation are discussed. Norfolk Trans Youth uses an eclectic pallet of stylistic techniques, attempting to find a new way to use the documentary format to reflect trans experiences. Merging factual documentary with experimental techniques, this is a visually inventive film centring a group often marginalised in conversations about their personhood.
Director Nicole O’Reilly will join us for a Q&A after the screening.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
Film has English audio with English language subtitles/captions. If you would like to attend this event and require a BSL interpreter for the Q&A, please contact access@sqiff.org. Hearing loop available.
The film is relatively accessible to English-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences with explanatory dialogue and relatively bright images. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
A Quiet Space and programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Autism-friendly Opening Night Shorts
2019-10-02 18:30 - 19:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
We are putting on an autism-friendly screening of our Opening Night Shorts programme. Autism-friendly screenings are designed to make the cinema more inclusive and accessible for people with sensory sensitivities, and others who can benefit from this environment. We will not book the cinema more than half full. Lights will be left on low and sound turned down. People are welcome to make noise and move around. We will have a Quiet Space in the Intermedia Gallery on the top floor of CCA available for anyone to take some time out.
The programme features a stellar lineup of documentary shorts focused on LGBTQIA+ community and activism.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

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

Bodies Like Oceans (13m)
Dir. Kat Cory, Country: USA, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
A dreamy portrait of photographer Shoog McDaniel, a self-described queer fat freak, whose work with fat bodies in nature transgresses reality.
Content note: Discussion of racism, misogyny, and fatphobia.
Adam and the Alphas (12m)
Dir. Stuart Thomas Graham, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
Made by students on the 2019 Documentary Production course at Stirling University.
Content note: Discussion of homophobia.
I AM! We Are Here! (7m)
Dir: Seyi Adebanjo, Country: USA, Year: 2018, Language/s: English
I AM! We Are Here! multimedia project documents the vitality and spirit of Queer, Trans* and Gender Non Conforming People of Color in the Bronx.
Content note: None.
Unspoken (17m)
Dir: Patrick G. Lee, Country: USA, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
Unspoken is the collective outpouring of six queer and trans Asian Americans as they grapple with their queerness and consider what family acceptance might look like. The interviewees hail from across the Asian diaspora—from Sri Lanka and Myanmar to China and South Korea. Some are not yet out to their parents, and this film is their way of doing so.
Content note: Discussion of homophobia and transphobia.
We Are Here (12m)
Dir. Ellie Hodgetts, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
This documentary follows members of the Manchester House of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence – a worldwide order of Queer nuns whose motto is to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt – as they continue to take a stand against ignorance and spread love wherever they go.
Content note: Discussion and depiction of homophobia and transphobia, including scenes of violence.
Button OUT! (4m)
Dir: Kathleen Mullen, Country: Canada, Year: 2018, Language/s: English
Button OUT! is a lively animated personal homage to the filmmaker’s own history of protest and the wider story of LGBTQ2S+ experiences contained in the collection of over 1200 buttons housed at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in Toronto.
Content note: Reference to sex, homophobia, transphobia, and racism.

SQIFF 2019 Opening Night Shorts
2019-10-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Sold Out – we can’t guarantee but there’s a good chance of returns if you come on the night 15 minutes before the event
We launch the Festival with a stellar lineup of documentary shorts focused on LGBTQIA+ community and activism. Adam and the Alphas depicts the camaraderie of gay rugby team, the Glasgow Alphas. Bodies Like Oceans follows self-described queer fat freak and photographer, Shoog McDaniel. I AM! We are Here! presents portraits of Queer, Trans* and Gender Non Conforming People of Colour in the Bronx, whilst Unspoken sees queer and trans Asian Americans writing emotional letters to their families. We Are Here follows members of the Manchester House of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and Button OUT! is an animated homage to Canadian filmmaker Kathleen Mullen’s history of protest through the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives’ massive button collection.
We hope to welcome several of the filmmakers for a Q&A. Followed by a drinks reception at CCA sponsored by Drygate Brewing Co.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

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

Bodies Like Oceans (13m)
Dir. Kat Cory, Country: USA, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
A dreamy portrait of photographer Shoog McDaniel, a self-described queer fat freak, whose work with fat bodies in nature transgresses reality.
Content note: Discussion of racism, misogyny, and fatphobia.
Adam and the Alphas (12m)
Dir. Stuart Thomas Graham, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
Made by students on the 2019 Documentary Production course at Stirling University.
Content note: Discussion of homophobia.
I AM! We Are Here! (7m)
Dir: Seyi Adebanjo, Country: USA, Year: 2018, Language/s: English
I AM! We Are Here! multimedia project documents the vitality and spirit of Queer, Trans* and Gender Non Conforming People of Color in the Bronx.
Content note: None.
Unspoken (17m)
Dir: Patrick G. Lee, Country: USA, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
Unspoken is the collective outpouring of six queer and trans Asian Americans as they grapple with their queerness and consider what family acceptance might look like. The interviewees hail from across the Asian diaspora—from Sri Lanka and Myanmar to China and South Korea. Some are not yet out to their parents, and this film is their way of doing so.
Content note: Discussion of homophobia and transphobia.
We Are Here (12m)
Dir. Ellie Hodgetts, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
This documentary follows members of the Manchester House of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence – a worldwide order of Queer nuns whose motto is to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt – as they continue to take a stand against ignorance and spread love wherever they go.
Content note: Discussion and depiction of homophobia and transphobia, including scenes of violence.
Button OUT! (4m)
Dir: Kathleen Mullen, Country: Canada, Year: 2018, Language/s: English
Button OUT! is a lively animated personal homage to the filmmaker’s own history of protest and the wider story of LGBTQ2S+ experiences contained in the collection of over 1200 buttons housed at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in Toronto.
Content note: Reference to sex, homophobia, transphobia, and racism.

SQIFF Shorts: Luv Sucks
2019-10-03 12:00 - 13:15 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Romantic relationships can be tough. SQIFF offers up an alternative to punching walls and texting your ex when pished with these shorts from the heart – as in stomping all over it and dumping it in the trash. A bisexual trio have a bust up in a toilet. A boy in a bath pines over his unavailable roommate. A woman has a near-but-not-quite romantic encounter with a fellow deafie. The vast power of the cosmos can’t prevent a bickering lesbian couple from breaking up. A sex worker has his hopes dashed by the man he loves. And in 2033 Botswana, a man loses his lover to dystopian despair.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
Films have a mixture of Arabic, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Tswana audio and BSL with English subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Most of the films are not very accessible to English-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences with largely visual storytelling, minimal dialogue, and majority non-English language. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
A Quiet Space and programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

To Starboard, I Vomit (6m)
Dir: Tarek Sardi, Country: Tunisia, Year: 2019, Language/s: Arabic
Zarga, Dorra, and Mohammed find themselves after years of separation together, reunited in a club’s toilet. Between betrayal and unspoken truths, the old classmates reveal their deepest secrets and taboos.
Content note: Depiction of homophobia, misogyny, and violence; discussion of sex.
Your Towel (3m)
Dir: Zhizi Hao, Country: UK, Year: 2017, Language/s: English
A young gay man and his roommate’s intimate moment in the bathtub.
Content note: Discussion of sex.
Almost… (5m)
Dir: Teresa Garratty, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: BSL, English
A chance encounter between two girls sparks an unspoken connection. Everything seems so effortless, so perfect… Almost. Written and directed by award winning filmmaker, Teresa Garratty, produced by Flashing Lights Media, and funded by BSLBT.
Content note: None.
Solarity (8m)
Dir: Marianne Verrone, Country: USA, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
An exploration of perception, proximity, and intimacy within a queer cosmos.
Content note: None.
Last Words [sic] (6m)
Dir: Hugo Ljungbäck, Country: USA, Sweden, Year: 2017, Language/s: No spoken language
Last Words [sic] revisits an angry email the artist received from an ex-boyfriend. The text is taken verbatim from his goodbye-letter, and tells a humorously painful story of lost love, betrayal, and desire, as the writer grows increasingly delusional, defensive, and passive-aggressive with each paragraph.
Content note: Discussion of sex.
Free Fall (14m)
Dir: Santiago Henao Vélez, Country: Colombia, Year: 2018, Language/s: Spanish
Out of the hunting shadows of sexual underground Medellin, sixteen-year-old Jhony is excitedly hopeful about a date with the boy he loves.
Content note: Depiction of sex and drug-taking.
Tea for Two (20m)
Dir: Julia Katharine, Country: Brazil, Year: 2018, Language/s: Portuguese
Silvia is a middle-aged filmmaker having a life crisis. The same night that she is surprised by the visit of her ex-wife, who left her a few years ago, she meets another woman who fascinates her. Tea For Two is thought to be the first film directed by a trans person to ever be commercially released in Brazilian cinemas.
Content note: Depiction of transphobia.
2064 (12m)
Dir: Joseph Adesunloye, Country: Botswana, Year: 2019, Language/s: Tswana
Devastating population growth, famine, and mass internal displacement pushes Africa to the brink. Many of the continent’s animals are wiped out due to hunting, ever-warming climate, and a ballooning population. A federation of African States is created and institutes an annual cull of four million men. Soon the policy is successful, and the continent’s wildlife begins to flourish again. In 2064, a nascent freedom movement led by the ‘Ladies in White’ is fighting for the emancipation of the condemned men and to put an end to the human cull.
Content note: Discussion and depiction of death and suicide.

Queen of Lapa
2019-10-03 12:30 - 14:05 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Larger-than-life actress, cabaret performer, activist, and sex worker, Luana Muniz – arguably one of Brazil’s most recognisable trans personalities – shapes a new reality for a generation of trans sex workers in her hostel by providing a safe working environment in the dangerous neighbourhood of Lapa in Rio de Janeiro. Queen of Lapa explores day-to-day lives, quests for love, and housemate rivalries in a turbulent political climate under matriarch Muniz’s watchful and guiding eye.
Screening with short Fernanda’s Spring (20m), in which a trans woman negotiates discrimination in trying to find work. Part of our strand Latinx Legends.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
Films has Portuguese audio with English captions/subtitles. Hearing loop available.
Films are not very accessible to English-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences with a lot of dialogue but all non-English language. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
A Quiet Space and programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

SQIFF Shorts: Come Out Fighting
2019-10-03 15:00 - 16:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Pushed into corners through marginalisation and oppression, the characters in these short films come out fighting for their bodily autonomy, rights, and liberation. YaliniDream performs a poem of refugee/migrant love for self and the world. Artist Liberty Antonia Sadler uses poetry to celebrate larger bodies in a fatphobic society. In Ponyboi, an intersex runaway and sex worker finds self-redemption and love. The Wind on your Skin sees a young Namibian woman fighting back after her girlfriend is murdered for being lesbian. Eyes explores moving through the world as a gender non-conforming person choosing between being visible versus being safe. And BLACKN3SS dives into the journey of black queer youth in São Paulo.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

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

I Am / YaliniDream (2m)
Dir: YaliniDream, Krissy Mahan, Country: USA, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
YaliniDream — Lankan Tamil Blood, Manchester-Born, Texas-Bred and Brooklyn-Brewed, performs a poem of refugee/migrant love for self and the world, through dance and a hiphop beat.
Content note: None.
tenderfluid (3m)
Dir: Liberty Antonia Sadler, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
Celebrating the hypnotic plasticity of a larger body, tenderfluid is visible softness as protest; a counterpoint to the rigidity of diet culture, cis-heteronormativity and toxic dogmas of weight gain & queerness as failure.
Content note: Discussion of fatphobia.
Ponyboi (19m)
Dir: River Gallo, Sade Clacken Joseph, Country: USA, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
Ponyboi is an intersex runaway. He works at a laundromat and hustles as a sex worker. But after a mysterious encounter with a man from his dreams, he learns that perhaps he is worthy of leaving his seedy life in New Jersey behind. Ponyboi is a queer film about discovering self-redemption and love.
Content note: Non-graphic sex scenes; depiction of violence including suggestion of sexual violence.
The Wind on your Skin (18m)
Dir: Naomi Beukes, Country: Namibia, Year: 2018, Language/s: English
A community is shaken when a young woman is murdered because of whom she loved. This is the 4th short story in the award winning series The Centre-Stories about the lives and loves of African Women in Berlin created by Namibian Filmmaker, Naomi Beukes.
Content note: Depiction and discussion of violence and death; discussion of sexual assault.
Eyes (5m)
Dir: Lily Ash Sakula, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
Eyes is about moving through the world as a gender non-conforming person and the tension between our fierce desire to be seen and an equally strong need for safety. Both are crucial to our survival as trans people, and yet they are often at odds: forcing us to choose.
Content note: Depiction of mental health issues.
BLACKN3SS (22m)
Dir: Diego Paulino, Country: Brazil, Year: 2018, Language/s: Portuguese
Between melanin and far away planets, BLACKN3SS proposes a dive into the journey of the black youth of São Paulo city. A documentary on blackness, queerness, and spacial aspirations of the diaspora’s children.
Content note: Discussion and depiction of anti-black racism; brief visual and spoken references to sexual violence.
My Spine is a Beautiful Sea Monster (2m)
Dir: Theresa Heath-Ellul, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
The idea for this film developed at a 2017 SQIFF filmmaking workshop which encouraged attendees to embrace a part of their bodies or selves they found challenging or difficult, and to turn it into something beautiful. I have always found my scoliosis very unattractive and never wear clothing which reveals my back. However, I do love the sea, glitter and sequins. I therefore decided to create a beautiful, be-sequinned sea monster out of my spine which would then dance according to my curvature.
Content note: None.

Birds of the Borderlands
2019-10-03 15:30 - 17:05 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Four queer Arab stories are powerfully illuminated through genderqueer Australian filmmaker Jordan Bryon’s compelling piece of guerrilla filmmaking. Jordanian teenager Hiba is transitioning in secret, fearful of being killed by her Bedouin tribe; gay Iraqi refugee Youssef has fled Baghdad and is living in limbo in Bryon’s safe house in Amman; lesbian feminist Rasha hides her sexuality and her relationship with Bryon from her family while striving for LGBTIQ visibility; and Khalaf, a gay Imam turned activist, lives a solitary life in Beirut. There is tension alongside touching, reflective moments as Bryon becomes more entangled in their struggles, blurring the lines between lover, friend, filmmaker, and activist.
Screening with No Man (4m). Kenneth Macharia is under the threat of being deported from the UK back to his home country of Kenya, where as an openly gay man he faces the risk of persecution, mob violence, and even death.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
Films have a mixture of English and Arabic audio with English captions/subtitles. Hearing loop available.
Films are marginally accessible to English-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences with the feature film half in English, half Arabic and with explanatory dialogue and relatively bright images. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
A Quiet Space and programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

LEAP Sports Scotland presents: Man Made
2019-10-03 18:15 - 20:35 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Trans FitCon is an all-transgender bodybuilding competition held in Atlanta, USA. Man Made follows 4 trans men stepping on the stage to compete. Rese is a young father struggling with periods of homelessness; Dominic seeks out his family of origin, confronting an alternate history for himself; Kennie admits to himself and his loved ones who he is for the first time in his life; and Mason, a loving husband who struggles with mental illness, works daily to be the man he’s always wanted to be. We follow their emotional and physical journeys as they navigate their lives with the very real risks inherent in the current social and political climate. For the men of Man Made, it’s not about winning – it’s about being seen.
In partnership with LEAP Sports Scotland and followed by a discussion about access of trans people to sport.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
Film has English audio with English captions/subtitles. If you would like to attend this event and require a BSL interpreter for the discussion, please contact access@sqiff.org. Hearing loop available.
Film is relatively accessible to English-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences with a fair amount of explanatory voiceover and dialogue. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
A Quiet Space and programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Black History Month: Fabulous + Father Figure
2019-10-03 18:30 - 20:15 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
In partnership with Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER) for Black History Month, we look at the thriving ballroom culture of contemporary Europe. In Fabulous (2019), international legend Lasseindra Ninja returns to her home of Guyana to introduce voguing to its LGBTQ community. Father Figure follows Guilliano, founding father of The Kiki House of Angels, and his friends as they share experiences of homophobia and racism in the Netherlands.
Curated and hosted by artist and researcher Claricia Parinussa, co-founder and organiser of Vogue Scotland. Followed by an introduction to the history of House Ball culture and discussion with guest from the London Ballroom scene, Elijah 007, including on the necessity of prioritising the QTIPOC community in these spaces.
Free. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
Films have Dutch, English, and French audio with English language subtitles/captions. If you would like to attend this event and require BSL interpretation for the discussion, please email access@sqiff.org at least 2 weeks in advance. Hearing loop available.
Films are not very accessible to English-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences with a lot of visual storytelling and mostly non-English language. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
A Quiet Space and programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Brief Story from the Green Planet
2019-10-03 21:30 - 22:55 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Three childhood friends in Buenos Aires are stuck in a rut. Gutsy trans performer Tania is disillusioned with her profession, club kid Pedro can only connect via dancing, and depressed waitress Daniela has given up on finding love. Their lives are turned upside down when Tania’s grandmother dies, leaving behind a secret. She lived with an extra-terrestrial companion and it is now Tania’s duty to return the creature to its home. The three set out across the countryside of Argentina on a journey that will test their faith in themselves and one another. Told through a mixture of magic and sobering realism, this poetic fable is an examination of selfhood, friendship, and what it means to be ‘other.’
With an introduction by Argentinean comedian and translator, AB Silvera.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

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

See Me Proud presents: Mental Health Shorts
2019-10-04 12:30 - 14:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
We know that mental health issues disproportionately affect LGBTQIA+ individuals and communities, who often experience difficulties in accessing support. To create space for discussion and representation of these topics, we’ve curated a collection of insightful and powerful shorts in partnership with See Me Proud. Topics covered include depression, anxiety, loneliness, irrational thoughts, living with bipolar disorder, medication, and queerphobia encountered whilst obtaining treatment. The films incorporate a diversity of identities and styles, including animation, experimental, documentary, and sci-fi.
Followed by a discussion on themes raised in the films with See Me Proud. With refreshments sponsored by Clever Kombucha.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
Films have English and Chinese audio with English language subtitles/captions. The discussion will be BSL interpreted. Hearing loop available.
Films are moderately accessible to English-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences with mostly English language, some explanatory dialogue and voiceover, and/or relatively bright images. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
A Quiet Space and programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Don’t Blame Jack (29m)
Dir. Dale John Allen, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
Don’t Blame Jack follows newly diagnosed manic-depressive, Jack, as he battles with the thought of life without his beloved ‘mania’. Now on a daily cocktail of anti-psychotics and anti-depressants, Jack searches for the adrenaline-fuelled, extraordinary manic highs in the most ordinary of places. He escapes his drab, routine-filled existence by jumping into the arms of strangers, searching for moments of magic.
Content note: Depiction of sex including light BDSM, nudity, self-harming scars, and blood; discussion of mental health issues including self-harming and violence; brief reference to suicide.
Hanging by a Thread (3m)
Dir: Russell Atkinson, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
Hanging by a Thread is director Russell Atkinson’s final BA Animation film, highlighting the struggle of loneliness and irrational thought.
Content note: Depiction of mental health issues; animated, abstract depiction of violence.
My Crazy Boxers (9m)
Dir. Krissy Mahan, Country: USA, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
Suicidal, or a working class butch caught in the wrong underpants? A re-enactment of an actual interview at a mental health facility.
Content note: Discussion of mental health issues including brief reference to suicide; depiction of queerphobia.
My Room 37 (14m)
Dir. Beatrice Wong, Country: Hong Kong, Year: 2018, Language/s: Chinese, English
Will I stay or will I leave this room that has felt the best? A brief first-hand account of my darker days in depression, journeying through my tangled thoughts to the exit.
Content note: Depiction of mental health issues, mild violence, and nudity.
Turning (2m)
Dir. Linnéa Haviland, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
Voices in a crowd stir violent emotions and microaggressions bring up past traumas. Then a turning shifts the emotional landscape…
Content note: Depiction of mental health issues.

SQIFF Shorts: Queer Spaces
2019-10-04 15:00 - 16:15 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
How does queer visibility transform physical and symbolic space? What roles do specific spaces have in altering the way that we navigate and represent ourselves in public? Why are alternatives to heteronormative space important for our communities? In this collection of shorts, we explore what ‘home’ and ‘public space’ means to the LGBTQIA+ communities of Paris; join a young trans man as he navigates gendered space on the Delhi metro; and follow the campaign to save one of London’s most iconic queer spaces, the Joiner’s Arms.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

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

Les Clefs de Chez Moi (26m)
Dir. Ray Van Huizen and Ella Martin-Gachot, Country: France, Year: 2019, Language/s: French, English
Filmed in Paris while Ray Van Huizen and Ella Martin-Gachot were studying abroad, the documentary explores the relationship that people in the LGBTQIA+ communities of Paris have with the concepts of home and public space.
Content note: Discussion of mental health issues including suicide, violence, transphobia, biphobia, and racism.
Trojan Horse / Rainbow Flag (26m)
Dir: Ian Giles, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
Working directly with members of Friends of the Joiners Arms, Ian Giles’ newly-commissioned film Trojan Horse/Rainbow Flag examines the campaign to save this iconic LGBTQI+ space. The title is inspired by campaigner Amy Roberts, when describing the cynical approach of property developers seeking to push through proposals to erase queer spaces by disingenuously claiming that their LGBTQI+ status would remain unchanged post-development.
Content note: Discussion of abusive relationships, violence, queerphobia, misogyny, and classism.
Please Mind the Gap (20m)
Dir. Mitali Trivedi and Gagandeep Singh, Country: India, Year: 2018, Language/s: Hindi, English
Delhi meets at the metro. The snaking lines of the tube connect the whole city. Passengers board from different places but for a brief moment in time they are all headed in the same direction. We share one such ride with our co-traveller Anshuman, a trans man. As the stations pass by we begin to look at the metro space from his perspective. His is the story of reclaiming public space and one’s own self. The doors will open on the quest. Please mind the gap.
Content note: Discussion of transphobia.

Luke+Jack present: Sexxxy Beasts and Wheelchairs
2019-10-04 21:15 - 22:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
How we are (un)represented as Deaf and Disabled people has a huge impact on our lives. Exploring such representation, we take a look at queer porn made by and about Deaf and Disabled queer people. With work by DIY queer filmmaker and activist, Loree Erickson, and self-described “bad ass, fat ass, Jew, dyke amputee,” Nomy Lamm. Also featuring films by Morty Diamond, Nikki Silver, and Pandora Blake with Deaf and Disabled performers taking control of their own narratives. Join us for everyday ableism crossed with seductive images of disability; pervy, polyamorous BDSM; sexy nurse roleplay; even sexxxier wheelchairs; and fat-bodied, amputee eroticism.
Filmmaker Loree Erickson will join us after the screening for a Q&A.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 18+.
Films have English audio with English language subtitles/captions. BSL interpretation for Q&A. Hearing loop available.
Films are moderatly accessible to English-speaking blind and partially sighted audiences with a lot of visual storytelling and limited dialogue but all English language. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
A Quiet Space and programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Trans Entities: The Nasty Love of Papí and Wil (20m)
Dir: Morty Diamond, Country: USA, Year: 2007, Language/s: English
Papi and Will is a film about a hot, pervy, loving, polyamorous transgender couple. On screen Papi and Will share with the viewer everything from their unique perspective on gender identity to how they negotiate multiple partners in their life. The sex scenes are filled with raw, uninhibited exploration and incorporate BDSM, roleplay, and a lot of hot sex! This scene shows Papi and Will playing with a partner who is Deaf.
Content note: Depiction of graphic sex and consensual non-consent; discussion of racism.
Want (9m)
Dir: Loree Erickson, Country: Canada, Year: 2006, Language/s: English
Want weaves together sexually explicit images with everyday moments and scenes of the ableist world. It works to get people hot and poses an insightful, complex, honest, and sexy image of disability.
Content note: Depiction of sex and ableism.
Sexxxy (3m)
Dir: Loree Erickson, Country: Canada, Year: 2006, Language/s: English
Sexxxy compels the viewer to take a closer look at wheelchairs and the people who use them.
Content note: None.
Waiting for Beast (10m)
Dir: Nikki Silver, Country: USA, Year: 2014, Language/s: English
“Waiting for Beast is at once a whimsical nod at the camp of queer porn and a political, intimate commentary on life. As a wheelchair punk my DIY, my freedom, is mutual aid. We work with what we got! During the making of this film, I was waiting for a new power chair, waiting for folks to meet me as they can, and in turn, people wait for me as I romp around and am pushed in my manual chair. This is wheelchair smut, and we have various ways of getting our chairs and our sexy selves where we need to go.” Lyric Seal
Content note: Depiction of sex including light BDSM.
Sadistic Nurse (11m)
Dir: Pandora Blake, Country: UK, Year: 2015, Language/s: English
This hot and very edgy spanking scenario was written by the performers, real-life couple David Weston and Talia Lane. They wanted to explore a humiliating punishment that incorporates David’s wheelchair, creating a scene in which his character is completely helpless.
Content note: Depiction of sex including BDSM and consensual non-consent.
Wall of Fire (6m)
Dir: Lisa Ganser, Nomy Lamm, Country: USA, Year: unknown, Language/s: English
Roles switch, paddles hit & control shifts when two fat bodied gender queer women, lovers off camera, push limits of pleasure, penetration & trust, engaged in an afternoon of tender making out and consensual amputee sex.
Content note: Depiction of sex including BDSM.

Transfinite
2019-10-05 15:00 - 16:20 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Transfinite is a sci-fi omnibus feature film by Neelu Bhuman composed of seven standalone short stories where supernatural trans and queer people from various cultures use their powers to protect, love, teach, fight, and thrive. Most of us have been in situations where we feel completely powerless and deeply frustrated with the unfairness of it all. Sometimes we have lost control of life and sometimes we find a way to use our rage, resentment, and frustrations to grow a beautiful garden. In Transfinite, the protagonists, like smooth warriors, choose to find that inner power and use it to transform undesirable situations into desirable ones in a snap.
Screening with Tomgirl (10m), in which a young Filipino boy in Australia gets an enchanting crash-course in his homeland culture.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
Films have English, Navajo, Swahili, Spanish, Asura (in Japanese), and Tagalog audio with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Films are not very accessible to blind and partially sighted audiences with visual storytelling, minimal dialogue, and mostly non-English language. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users, gender neutral toilets, and welcomes assistance animals. Click here for CCA’s Accessibility Guide.
A Quiet Space and programme content notes will be available. Click here for a list of content notes for the 2019 Festival.
Comfy seating (bean bags) are available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.
