We cordially invite you to our Opening Night event, Scottish Shorts 1. This event showcases the outstanding talent of queer filmmakers here in our homeland, Scotland. Before we embark on a week exploring queer international cinema, Scottish Shorts celebrates the diverse range of films coming out of Scotland right now. Expect big muscles, punk […]
Got a film idea you've been waiting to share with the world? Join us for our third SQIFF Film Pitch, an opportunity to get your film idea out in front of an audience and guest judges at the 2026 festival. The two winning pitches will be awarded £500 each to be used towards the […]
Hand-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 […]
Scottish 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 […]
Telepathy, psychic yearning, ghostly cruising…. And that’s just the first date. Join us to explore the intuitive and psychic nature of sapphic relationships, where lust is mythic and dreaming is half the flirt. These shorts pull us into the freaky realm of lesbian imagination. We’ll drift into the clouds of a queer utopia, […]
Step 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, […]
This screening showcases compelling short documentaries all under 12 minutes in length. It proves that big, powerful stories can be told in even the tiniest films. From intimate personal portraits and participatory filmmaking, to more experimental works, this eclectic programme spans a number of styles, genres, and perspectives. Together, these works highlight the […]
Amanda and Caio are a T4T couple who have shared seven years of love and dreams. When they finally decide to move in together, the intimacy of daily life begins to expose their differences. Caio, romantic and idealistic, longs for emotional stability and a future built together while working at a radio station. Amanda, […]
What happens when a feeling takes hold of the body and refuses to loosen its grip? Moving between love, memory, erotic experimentation, body horror and public scrutiny, these films explore the ways queer people are desired, judged, transformed and misunderstood. A body changes beyond recognition. A lover becomes inseparable from a place. A private […]
What does it mean to move through a world that was not built with you in mind? From Lagos roads and Cape Town Ubers to fairytale worlds and films that refuse to stay cancelled, these works find different ways through structures of isolation, exploitation and erasure. Sometimes movement offers escape; elsewhere it becomes survival, […]
