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, […]
Love takes many shapes. In this selection of shorts from Brazil, different kinds of love move through distinct relationships. Not eternal as in forever unchanged, but constantly evolving: a throuple that keeps choosing each other as illness rewrites what they remember. Travesti friends who sit together inside grief rather than apart from it. Lovers […]
What can a body say that words cannot? Beyond Words moves between BSL, breath, music, choreography, vibration and touch, following the many ways meaning can travel through the body. Across these films, bodies become letters, instruments, signals and landscapes, carrying desire, memory, fear, pleasure and resistance. An alphabet is danced through ruins. A bog […]
The world is ending all the time. Politically, ecologically, inside the body, inside the home, and across places that no longer offer safety. These 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 […]
Scottish Shorts 2 moves across Edinburgh summers, dinner tables, supermarket bins, political stages and the search for beauty in a new home. These films look at what it means to be shut out, misunderstood or left behind, but also at the strange and inventive ways people make space for themselves. Relationships begin to slip, […]
Lok, a 34-year-old filmmaker from Macau, has been drifting through Hong Kong’s film industry. Although she has already directed a feature film, her life remains unstable, her next project has stalled, and her girlfriend Bei Bei is pushing for them to get married, buy a house, and settle down. Facing multiple pressures, Lok revisits […]
Botox, Revolax, Sculptra, Hyaron and Juvederm: all sorts of products, perhaps not all entirely legal, sell like hot cakes in Bouba’s Lebanese beauty salon. Skilfully, though not always gently, she jabs a constant stream of clients with all kinds of injectables to temporarily reduce their facial wrinkles and frown lines. Director Omar Mismar films […]
Adam’s Apple is an intimate, collaborative documentary told through the dual perspectives of Adam, a transgender teen, and his mother, visual artist Amy Jenkins, that offers an authentic and tender counterpoint to the hostility facing trans youth today. Adam’s journey balances the milestones of gender transition with the rhythms of adolescence. As Adam asserts […]
Are you a queer filmmaker based in Scotland or further afield? Please join us for an evening of networking, accompanied by refreshments and fabulous company. Non-alcoholic beverages will also be available. Whether you’re already working in film and related media, just starting out or simply interested in meeting other LGBTQIA+ creatives, we’d love to […]
The past does not stay where we leave it. It lingers in bodies, landscapes, old recordings, unfinished love stories and places that may no longer welcome us back. These films return to what has been lost: a lover in Cairo, lives cut short before memories could fully form, a vanished queer community, a homeland […]
