Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) in collaboration with Wotever DIY Film Festival and Bar Wotever presents a selection of shorts from SQIFF's Queer Women in Love season, featuring films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. The line-up includes a range of styles and ideas relating to the theme of love from Barbara […]
Grouchy, foul-mouthed Stella and sweet, straight-talking Dotty are a lesbian couple from Maine who embark on a Thelma and Louise-style road trip to Nova Scotia to get married after Dotty is moved to a nursing home by her granddaughter. Adapted from the director’s own stage play, Cloudburst highlights marriage as a necessity for gay people’s […]
Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nic (Annette Bening) have been together for almost twenty years and have two teenage offspring named Joni and Laser, who were conceived via artificial insemination. Unbeknown to their mothers, Joni and Laser seek out their biological father, a restaurateur named Paul (Mark Ruffalo). Complications arise when the teens bond with Paul […]
Grouchy, foul-mouthed Stella and sweet, straight-talking Dotty are a lesbian couple from Maine who embark on a Thelma and Louise-style road trip to Nova Scotia to get married after Dotty is moved to a nursing home by her granddaughter. Adapted from the director’s own stage play, Cloudburst highlights marriage as a necessity for gay people’s […]
Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nic (Annette Bening) have been together for almost twenty years and have two teenage offspring named Joni and Laser, who were conceived via artificial insemination. Unbeknown to their mothers, Joni and Laser seek out their biological father, a restaurateur named Paul (Mark Ruffalo). Complications arise when the teens bond with Paul […]
JJ is a black lesbian ‘stud’ working as a wedding photographer with white gay best friend, Seb. When JJ falls in love with the beautiful and mysterious Elle, JJ and Seb’s friendship is tested for the first time as JJ has to choose between her hot new lover and her friend. Meanwhile, Seb rejects the […]
Tangerine (2015) starring Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor made waves for being one of the few feature films about trans women played by actual trans women actors as well as being shot entirely on an iPhone. Sin-Dee Rella, a sex worker who has just finished a 28-day prison stint, meets her friend Alexandra at […]
Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) hosts a fun and informal evening of open conversation around queer film; what it is, what it isn't, what we'd like it to be and where the mainstream film industry is getting it all kinds of wrong... We want to know what the successes and failings of queer film […]
A selection of shorts looking at the relationship of LGBTQ+ people to cities. In depicting anonymous cruising, lamenting gentrification, showing cities as a backdrop to loneliness and personal pain, and creating comedy subversion of urban imagery, these films recognise the unique place of queers in the city space. Featuring work by both international and local […]
Join us for a fantastic day of preview screenings of upcoming LGBTQI+ film releases. The event is open to both film programmers and LGBTQI+ groups who are interested in screening films. For existing film groups, the Preview Day will be an opportunity to see new films prior to public release, from a selection of distributors […]
