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SUMMARY:Notes From a Collapsing World
DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nThe world is ending all the time. Politically\, ecologically\, inside the body\, inside the home\, and across places that no longer offer safety. \nThese films begin from that pressure point. A damaged landscape becomes a site of pleasure and resistance. A lost relationship carries the weight of queer life under repression. A return to the countryside exposes the distance between belonging and safety. A journey through the occupied West Bank becomes an encounter with violence\, while two lovers at the edge of an unfamiliar world are forced to ask where home really is. \nAcross fiction\, essay\, documentary and experimental moving image\, these films move through grief\, displacement\, occupation and impossible returns. But collapse is not only an ending here. It is also where other forms of life begin to grow: pleasure as resistance\, memory as archive\, nature as collaborator\, and community as something built within hostile conditions. \nNotes from a Collapsing World is a programme about staying with the damage without letting it have the final word. It is about lovers\, landscapes\, borders\, loss and breath\, and the small\, stubborn ways queer life continues to reach towards a future. \nWe are delighted to welcome William Hong-xiao Wei\, director of Elegy for the Lost\, who will introduce the film before the screening. \nCurated by Huss.  \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof/ID. We just ask that you are honest! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility  \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nArabic\, English\, French\, German\, Hebrew\, Swiss German audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for the introduction.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 91 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 18+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nFilms in this programme include: \nThe Measure of Drowning\, Dirs. Laure Giappiconi\, Elisa Monteil\, La Fille Renne\, 2026\, France\, 7 min. \nWe no longer recognised neither flow nor forest. We had been halved\, quartered\, decimated. We had been fragmented\, shattered. The measure of drowning is an ecosexual fable about breathing better even when drowning\, finding ways to resist the collapse of life and re-nourishing desires. \nContent notes: Depiction of explicit sex\, nudity. Discussion of capitalism\, violence. \n  \nElegy for the Lost\, Dir. William Hong-xiao Wei\, 2025\, France\, Spain\, United Kingdom\, China\, 30 min. \nThrough the introspective voiceover of a young post-pandemic Chinese migrant in Europe\, the essay film interweaves her private memories of queer intimacy with public narratives of resistance\, confronting the personal cost of existing in the current age of turbulence and regression\, in a world that demands their silence. \nAccess notes: Flashing lights\, strobes. \nContent notes: Depiction of violence. Discussion of censorship\, COVID-19 pandemic\, displacement\, homophobia\, police\, surveillance. \n  \nThe Headgear\, Dir. Marcel Hörler\, 2026\, Switzerland\,  18 min. \nA hardened state that inscribes itself into bodies. Fascinating and tormenting at once. In search of queer liberation\, we walk along the memories of the director. To the places where he grew up in the countryside. He wants to go back\, but he cannot. Past idyllic landscapes and frozen waters\, towards communities that promise something to hold onto. And so we move\, step by step\, between reality and fiction\, to a place that finally holds him. \n  \nCOYOTES\, Dir. Said Zagha\, 2025\,  Palestine\, France\, United Kingdom\, Jordan\,  20 min. \nA Palestinian surgeon drives home after a long night shift\, but little does she know that a commute through a desolate West Bank road will change her forever. \nContent notes: Depiction of blood\, death\, military\, violence. \n  \nThe Ones Who Walk\, Dirs. Billie Sorribès\, Lucien Pin\, 2026\, France\, 16 min. \nOn the shores of a lake bordered by blood-red earth\, two women are in love. One wants to stay\, the other wants to go home. As they wander around the lake\, this disagreement prompts them to take stock of their relationship. As the day fades and a strange despair washes over them\, a question arises. Where do they really come from? \nContent notes: Discussion of capitalism\, facism. \n  \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: COYOTES\, Dir. Said Zagha\, 2025
URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/notes-from-a-collapsing-world/
LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Shorts,UK premiere
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