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SUMMARY:Collaged
DESCRIPTION:  \nListen to this Event Page\n  \nHand-scratched Super 8\, neon ink bleeding across film strips\, torn paper fragments\, found footage\, and reclaimed archives brought back to life. Collaged is a celebration of tactile experimental filmmaking. Blurring the boundaries between analogue and digital\, memory and imagination\, these films embrace hands-on editing\, resurfacing found footage\, and the creative ways to piece film together. Expect an explosion of colour\, texture\, and sound as filmmakers transport us to vibrant new worlds. Perfect for anyone ready to drift beyond the polished surfaces of high definition and discover the grainy\, acid-washed world of experimental cinema. \nThe films will be followed by a Q&A between Autojektor (A CURE FOR SCARS)\, Marguerite Carson (the bird sings with its fingers) and curator Nat Lall. \nCurated by Nat Lall. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof/ID. We just ask that you are honest! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility  \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and Q&A. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nEnglish\, German\, Spanish audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for for the introduction and Q&A.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 59 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 15+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nT4T\, Dir. Avian de Keizer\, 2023\, United States\, 3min. \nT4T is a short Super 8 experimental film about trans love and the medical system. \nAccess notes: Flashing Imagery. \n  \nLC39-A\, Dir. Josipa Anton\, 2026\, United States\, 4min. \nA short experimental documentary about the Space Race by filmmaker Josipa Anton\, LC-39A utilizes NASA archival footage and poetry by Bertolt Brecht to explore the march of history and technological progress as it intersects with ideology and cultural memory. \n  \nLunch Poems (Remix)\, Dir. J Triangular\, 2026\, Colombia\, Taiwan\, NYC\, 4min. \nIn Lunch Poems (Remix)\, J dusts off VHS tapes recorded in 2017 with their friend and collaborator Miss Expanding Universe (Ashley Yang-Thompson). They remix them into a fiery manifesto and intimate video diary — a collage of poetic art adventures in the streets of New York. The film captures the raw energy of poets claiming the city\, blending performance\, diary\, and queer rebellion. A hypnotic soundtrack of fragments sung by the poet threads the work together\, creating a bold\, immersive experience.\n \n  \nObjectionable Fruit\, Dirs. Hogan Seidel\, Gabby Follett\, 2026\, United States\, Canada\, Germany\, 15 min. \nObjectionable Fruit is an experimental documentary examining the Ginkgo tree\, a living fossil celebrated for its resilience and unique capacity to change sexes\, defying human-imposed binaries. Using the Ginkgo as a metaphor for fluidity and endurance\, the film weaves together themes of gender identity\, ecological interconnectedness\, and the nuanced complexities of queer existence. \nAccess notes: Flashing Imagery. \n  \nA CURE FOR SCARS\, Dir. Autojektor\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 3 min. \nRestoration//Cleanses with Fire. The machine reclaims the ugly body. And replaces it with a digestible corpse. A Futile conversion. Pointless violence. \nAccess notes: Flashing Imagery. \n  \nTTT (Tᄐト)\, Dir. kimura byol lemoine\, 2025\, Canada\, 3 min. \n‘In the 100th episode of “Testo du jeudi” (TTT in English)\, Roman\, Korean (Hangeul) and Japanese (Katana) syllabic alphabets feature the word ‘TRANS’ in a sketch by Kě.’  \n  \nMarked\, Dir. Wrik Mead\, 2026\, Canada\, 3 min. \nMarked is an experimental film that merges Super 8 and 16mm formats to examine the presence of queer intimacy. At its center are two shirtless men\, locked in an embrace\, dancing — a quiet yet radical act. Overlaid with hand-inked 16mm film\, their bodies become both seen and obscured\, highlighted and erased. Through this layered process\, Marked reflects on how queer love is shaped\, celebrated\, and scarred by the society that surrounds it. \nAccess notes: Flashing Imagery. \n  \nTrivakra\, Dir. Sofia Angst\, 2025\, Brazil\, 10 min. \nTrivakra moves through the memories of a child\, crossed by gender biotechnologies that reshape their body and their history. The gushing syringe of a travesti ritual of hormonal transmutation opens a glitch in the matrix of gender and video\, where bones and skins are dematerialized into cyberspace. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery\, flashing lights\, loud noises. \n  \nunbelong\, Dir. Pars Loren\, 2025\, Germany\, Türkiye\, 9 min. \nAt its heart\, unbelong is a philosophical inquiry posed through visceral experience. The narrated poem questions whether we move through time or time moves through us\, capturing the profound stillness of a moment when everything changes. It’s about the act of abandoning a home that abandoned you first\, and the sharp blade hidden in the question\, “Where are you from?“ unbelong is for anyone who understands that migration is not a simple journey but a rupture\, and that for some\, movement is not freedom but a painful necessity for survival. It is a work of grief\, hope\, and transformation. \nContent notes: Discussion of police violence\, transphobia. \n  \nthe bird sings with its fingers\, Dir. Marguerite Carson\, 2025\, Australia\, United Kingdom\, 5 min. \nSeabirds dip in and out of frame drawing on the ancient divination of the flights of birds\, asking when is a prophecy encountered and when is it voiced. \nDonate: \nDonate to SQIFF via PayPal or sign up to one of our four Patreon tiers to support our work and show us you’re a big SQIFF fan 🌈✨ \n  \nSupported by Screen Scotland\, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network)\, all awarding National Lottery funding. \n  \nImage Credit: Trivakra\, Dir. Sofia Angst\, 2025
URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/collaged/
LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,European premiere,Films,Live Captioning,Scottish premiere,Shorts,UK premiere,World premiere
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261020T173000
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SUMMARY:SATURATE
DESCRIPTION:  \nListen to this Event Page\n  \nScottish queer cinema goes DIY with 9 world premieres of subversive and irreverent shorts made in this years’ SQIFF queer filmmaking course: SATURATE. Positioning queer filmmaking in Scotland as cinematic counterculture\, SATURATE was a Glasgow based filmmaking course that brought together 31 emerging LGBTQIA+ Scotland-based directors to develop zero-budget short films over the summer of 2026.  \nThis eclectic programme of unconventional shorts offers a window into queer imaginaries across Glasgow in 2026\, positioning LGBTQIA+ cinema at the forefront of Scotland’s indie filmmaking culture. Local filmmakers explored everything from camp horror on AI data centres taking over Glasgow flats\, sensorial documentary on the relationship between the queer body and the city centre\, performative reimaginings of the reproductive cycle in a trans revision of Frankenstein\, to magical realist drama exploring migration in the UK\, Chinese folklore\, the endurance of queer love\, and more. \nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A with this year’s SATURATE participants and Erica Monde\, Glasgow based filmmaker and leader of this year’s SATURATE course. \nCurated by Erica Monde & Indigo Korres. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof/ID. We just ask that you are honest! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility  \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and Q&A. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nEnglish audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles.\nLive Captioning for the introduction and Q&A.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 66 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 15+ \nIf you require access seating please get in touch. Access seating includes: wheelchair spaces\, sitting in the front row / in the aisle / at the back. If you need any other provisions\, please let us know by emailing info@sqiff.org with your name\, ticket information and access request. We will do our best to work with you whilst also managing the capacity of  the venue. Thank you for working with us on this.  \nYou can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2026 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF\, please get in touch with us at info@sqiff.org \n  \nFilms in this programme include: \n  \nMADE THINGS\, Dirs. April Stewart\, Jo Hauge\, Betty/Chaoying Rao 饶超颖 / Femme Castratrice\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 7min. \nDiscover the reproductive process of the species Homo dykefagicus… \nA speculative\, camp mingling of the horror trope of re-animation and the heterosexual marriage plot\, where Mummy\, Daddy and Baby are part of a delicious and slimy circular reproductive cycle that doesn’t progress but goes around and around and around. \nContent notes: Depiction of nudity\, references of sex. \n  \nBuilding Bodies\, Dirs. Lish Adam\, Ilaria Lipperi\, Priscila Froes\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 11 min. \nSounds\, sights\, touch and memory come together in this sensory and emotional reflection on experiences living in and passing through the City Centre of Glasgow. This experimental documentary uses real testimonies\, voiceover\, footage and sound from the City Centre to convey an experience shared by residents and the built environment itself.  \nContent notes: Depiction of religious march. Discussion of capitalism\, racism\, violence. \n  \nHelp! My Room8te is Trying to Kill Me!\, Dirs. Andy Neilson Smith\, Ophelia Steele Davis\, Yexabel Rivero\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 10 min. \nSam is anxious around their flatmate Jordan’s imminent move and whether their friendship will survive beyond it. The arrival of Big Tech’s latest invention changes the dynamic in the flat even more so in strange and mysterious ways. Through resisting this physical cyber-attack\, unspoken feelings finally come to the surface. \nContent notes: Depiction of action fighting\, cigarette use. Discussion of data centres. \n  \nA Matter of Record\, Dir. Eleanor Capaldi\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 8 min. \nFrom early crushes on Hollywood stars to lesbian discos in 1970s Glasgow\, anchored by a 40 year love story at its heart\, Elizabeth Elliott brings to life lesbian experiences that are too easily lost. Through receipts to photographs\, to recollection\, the film questions the archival process\, while becoming a record itself.  \nContent notes: Discussion of homophobia\, police violence. \n  \nIn Transit\, Dir. AAidan (A-A. W. Summers)\, Jessica Payne\, Zebib K. Abraham\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 6 min. \nA journey through leather\, warmth and light\, and the disembodied fear of catching the last train home. Our film has taken shape through a mix of live action\, stop motion\, and visual programming that connects the rural and the digital to form a journey in transit\, flicking between both spatial planes in this search for home. \nAccess notes: Flashing Imagery\, Flashing Lights. \n  \nHow To Be A Better Serial Killer\, Dirs. Joe Dunn\, Leah Francisco\, Louis Utieyin\, Muratiwa Chinake\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 6 min. \nIt’s 2026\, the job market is shit. Someone calls into a radio show\, The Unemployment Line\, where you can get tips on how to improve your skills and get help seeking a job. However\, when a bizarre call throws the host off kilter\, the unsuspecting host gives helpful tips and motivates an aspiring serial killer to achieve their dream. Will the caller succeed\, who will be their next victim? \nAccess notes: Depiction of a dead body. \n  \nWhy (Do U) Care?\, Dir. Cameron Prince\, Sara Bucheeri\, Ashley Wolf\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 6 min. \nOn the run after battering a couple of bigots with his skateboard\, Bo climbs through a window into the flat of his ex-lover\, who holds resentment towards him since their messy separation. She is now a trad-wife\, and he is a rogue transsexual. Why (Do U) Care? explores lost queerness. \nContent notes: Depiction of deadnaming\, strong language. \n  \nDrift\, Dirs. ACE V!S!ON\, Elsa Kerscher\, Jo Lee\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 6 min. \nDrift is an intimate exploration of what it means to be trapped in the sick body. This collaborative film tries to make the edges of the body visible and gesture towards the in-between state of sickness\, loneliness and the domestic. \nAccess notes: Flickering TV Screen. \n  \nAcross the Magpie Bridge\, Dirs. Angela/Anqi Sun\, Fatima\, Matin Cheng\, Shivani Krishna\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 6 min. \nIn a retelling of old Chinese folklore about two lovers separated by the Gods\, Kuhu\, a queer immigrant\, navigates her way through Glasgow and the UK immigration system\, dreaming of reuniting with her lover\, Qiqi. \nAccess notes: Distorted Imagery. \nContent notes: Depiction of police\, strong language use. Discussion of home office bureaucracy. \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: Made Things\, Dirs. April Stewart\, Jo Hauge\, Betty/Chaoying Rao 饶超颖 / Femme Castratrice\, 2026
URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/saturate/
LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSL,Deaf,Descriptive Subtitles,Films,Live Captioning,Shorts,Trans,World premiere
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261020T223000
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SUMMARY:Night Time
DESCRIPTION:Listen to this Event Page\n  \nStep into the shadows with Nighttime\, a trio of films exploring the eerie creatures\, uncanny encounters\, and mysterious worlds that emerge after dark. Blending live action and 3D animation\, these works present unsettling figures\, haunting silences\, and an ominous sense that anything could happen. Moving between familiar Glaswegian backdrops and more distant\, imagined realms\, the films challenge our perceptions of everyday life and reveal the strangeness hidden beneath the surface. Fear and fantasy blur together and our imaginations run wild. Through striking visuals and haunting soundscapes\, Nighttime lets us indulge in our curiosity about the unknown. \nThis screening will end with a Q&A with Gwen Hall (Kiss on the Shore by Moonlight) and curator Nat Lall. \nCurated by Nat Lall. \n  \nClick here to book your ticket for this event. \nTickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE\, £4\, £8\, £12\, £16\, or £20\, in order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof/ID. We just ask that you are honest! Please find the ‘What Should I Pay?’ guidance here. \n  \nAccessibility  \nThis event has: \n\nEnglish-BSL interpretation for the introduction and Q&A. The interpreter for this event is TBC.\nAymara\, English\, Persian\, Spanish audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles\nLive Captioning for the introduction and Q&A.\nAn induction loop is available at the GFT Box Office. Enhanced Audio (EA) is available in their screening rooms via headset. \n\nThis screening is 69 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: \nKiss on the Shore by Moonlight\,  Dir. Gwen Hall\, 2025\, United Kingdom\, 40 min. \nA silent vampire film set in gothic Glasgow\, visually (re)animated by Gwen Hall and scored by dj peanut. Loosely adapted from passages of Jalal Toufic’s ‘Vampires: An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film\,’ the film crudely inserts a sultry digital character into live-action footage in an exploration of personal duality set to a dark experimental soundtrack. \nAccess notes: Flashing imagery\, flashing lights. \nContent notes: Depiction of mild blood\, threatening images. \n  \nThe Night\,  Dir. Hera Khanmirzaei\, 2025\, Iran\, 15 min. \nIn a surreal world\, a rebellious teenage girl steals her father’s secret car key and escapes into the night. Reunited with her friend\, they dive into a forbidden void where laughter and darkness collide\, passengers transform into animals\, and a strange journey begins\, one that leads them beyond the boundaries of identity. \nAccess notes: Flashing lights. \n  \nGaucha\,  Dir. Daira Ronzoni\, 2026\, United Kingdom\, 1 min. \nA wandering queer mestiza crosses deserts and underworlds guided by signs and snakes; when a rupture into susto separates her from herself\, she moves through ancestral memory and earthly ritual\, seeking a return through offerings and reciprocity. \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: Kiss on the Shore by Moonlight\, Dir. Gwen Hall\, 2025
URL:https://www.sqiff.org/event/night-time/
LOCATION:Glasgow Film Theatre\, 12 Rose Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6RB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSL,Descriptive Subtitles,Films,Live Captioning,Shorts,World premiere
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