SQIFF Schools: Norfolk Trans Youth: Respecting & Understanding Differences

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free

SQIFF Shorts: Intimacies

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free – £8

Norfolk Trans Youth: Respecting & Understanding Differences

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free – £8

Autism-friendly Opening Night Shorts

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free – £8

SQIFF 2019 Opening Night Shorts

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free – £8

SQIFF Shorts: Luv Sucks

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free – £8

Queen of Lapa

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free – £8

SQIFF Shorts: Come Out Fighting

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free – £8

Birds of the Borderlands

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free – £8

LEAP Sports Scotland presents: Man Made

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free – £8
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