Queer Horror: A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
2016-10-02 20:00 - 21:40 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Described as ‘The Gayest Horror Movie Ever Made’, Freddy’s Revenge is the first of many sequels to Wes Craven’s 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. Maligned for being cheap trash on its release, the second film in the franchise has achieved cult status for its gloriously campy queer subtext. Virginal teenager, Jesse, feels he has something inside him that needs to ‘come out,’ which turns out, of course, to be Freddy Krueger. Beyond this unsubtle, central metaphor, Jesse has a suspiciously close relationship with his male friend, a sadomasochistic gym teacher who literally gets stripped and whipped, and a supposed love interest who looks like Meryl Streep.
Introduced by Jordan Phillips, queer horror maestro at Queen Margaret University.
ACCESS: Level access with Cinema plus accessible toilets all on ground floor (CCA). Film screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Hearing loop available. BSL interpretation for introduction. English language film.

£5 / £4 conc / Free for unemployed and asylum seekers. Festival pass £40 / £30 conc. All prices include booking fee.
To book tickets, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

SQIFF Closer: Real Boy
2016-10-02 20:15 - 21:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
‘I just want to be loved by my family,’ says Bennett, a nineteen year old trans man. ‘But for my family, it’s not as simple as that.’ Ben’s mum is having a hard time coming to terms with her child changing. His dad and sister no longer speak to him. But thanks to social media, Ben meets a whole network of people who support him, including best friend Dylan and Joe Stevens, a trans musician. With their support, Ben comes to terms with his identity and begins to build bridges with his family. Real Boy is raw and breathtakingly honest, creating a sense of awe at the resilience and courage of its subjects.
Preceded by the presentation of our Festival awards, the SQIFFies. We are delighted that one of the film’s stars Joe Stevens will be joining us for our 2016 closing event.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets on first floor (CCA). English language film. Audio description available. Film screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. BSL interpretation for awards presentation and Q&A.

£5 / £4 conc / Free for unemployed and asylum seekers. Festival pass £40 / £30 conc. All prices include booking fee.
To book tickets, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Also showing at: Edinburgh Filmhouse, Monday 3rd October, 6pm and at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Tuesday 4th October, 7pm.

To Russia with Love
2016-10-06 19:00 - 21:15 | Hannah Maclure Centre, University of Abertay Dundee, Top Floor, Abertay Student Centre, 1-3 Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 1HP, United Kingdom
Leading up to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, a law banning the “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors” – which could potentially be enforced against any LGBT person if they “flaunted” their status – was enacted in Russia. Human rights activists and LGBT people involved in the Games contemplated what to do about the situation. To Russia with Love documents their responses and reactions, speaking to a variety of contributors, including current and former Olympians and local LGBT campaigners.
Followed by a panel discussion on the political situation surrounding events. In partnership with LEAP Sports Scotland, Abertay LGBT Society, and Allsorts LGBT Youth Group.
ACCESS: Hannah Maclure Centre is accessible for people using wheelchairs. There are accessible toilets next to the screening space. Awaiting further information from venue. Please contact the venue for more details in the meantime on 01382 308324. Film screening with subtitles/captions for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation for the discussion, please email info@sqiff.org at least one week in advance.

This event is free. Book tickets via the link below to be guaranteed a space.

SQIFF Shorts: Pull Yourself Together
2016-10-11 19:00 - 21:00 | The Glad Cafe, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G41 2HG, United Kingdom
*SOLD OUT – As this is a free event, it’s likely not everyone who has booked will turn up, so it’s possible to come along on the night without booking and see if there’s a space. There’s a high chance you’ll get in but we obviously can’t guarantee this without a ticket.*
Mental health difficulties are rife amongst LGBTQ+ individuals and communities with statistics regularly highlighting we suffer from them disproportionately. SQIFF presents a collection of short films with authentic perspectives on the subject, covering a range of topics and providing insights from a variety of individuals who have had personal encounters with mental health problems. Following the screening, members of Glasgow’s LGBTQ+ community will discuss their own experiences, including the stigma often surrounding such issues.
In partnership with LGBT Health and Wellbeing.
Content note: discussion of suicide and self-harm.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance and then three stairs or a ramp to access the screening area. Accessible toilet next to the bar back down the stairs or ramp (The Glad Cafe). English language films. Films screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. BSL interpretation for discussion.
This event is free. Book tickets via the link below to be guaranteed a space.

LUX Scotland and SQIFF present: Dani Leventhal
2016-10-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Transmission Gallery, 28 King Street, Glasgow, G1 5QP, United Kingdom
Presented by LUX Scotland in association with SQIFF and Transmission, American artist Dani Leventhal visits Glasgow to show and discuss her recent video work.
Her videos are disjunctive, diaristic, and often feature people who become the unassuming subjects of her work. Describing her working process, Leventhal says, “I start with a subject that I care deeply about / I concentrate on fear, desire, anger, confusion, and love. / I concentrate on the emotional relationships between humans, humans and animals, and humans and their environments. / I am particularly interested in the way we develop based on our experiences in childhood, and then the process of undoing it.”
Presenting her shorts alongside her recent collaboration Hard As Opal with Jared Buckhiester, Leventhal will also present a preview of her in-progress work, Strangely Ordinary This Devotion, a collaboration with Sheilah Wilson.
This is event is free and unticketed.
ACCESS: Transmission is accessible for wheelchair users via Trongate 103. Please enter at the street entrance to Trongate 103 and take the lift to the basement floor. Accessible toilets available. SQIFF has a policy of screening films with English subtitles or captions for deaf and hard of hearing access but unfortunately we are not able to do so on this occasion – big apologies for this.

Lesbian with a Movie Camera
2017-02-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Transmission Gallery, 28 King Street, Glasgow, G1 5QP, United Kingdom
As part of LGBT History Month Scotland, we present a lovingly-curated selection of indie, punk, and DIY lesbian shorts from across half a century of filmmaking, featuring known names and unsung (s)heroes alike. Ranging from the hilarious to the experimental, the programme features a rare screening of Caroline Sheldon’s witty and subversive 17 Rooms (Or What Do Lesbians Do in Bed?). Scheduled in 1986 for a prime slot on Channel Four’s pioneering In The Pink season, Sheldon’s film was scandalously pulled at the last minute – not because of any explicit content but because it was thought audiences might object to its title.
This is a free, unticketed event; donations are very much appreciated and will collected after the screening. The screening is on the ground floor of our venue Transmission. Accessible toilet available. Films shown will include captions for better D/deaf and hard of hearing access.

SQIFF Shorts: Regen(d)eration
2017-06-02 19:00 - 20:00 | The Old Leith Theatre, 28-30 Ferry Road, Edinburgh, EH6 4AE, United Kingdom
SQIFF and Hidden Door collaborate to bring you a lovingly curated programme of shorts exploring queer notions of rebirth to consider how we (re)construct, navigate and negotiate our queer identities. From captivating, tender animations to the provocative, exciting, experimental, this selection of short films showcases some SQIFF favourites made by queer people about queer people!
ACCESS: All films will be screened with subtitles to make them more accessible for D/deaf and hard of hearing audiences. Unfortunately, we have been informed that due to the derelict and temporary nature of Hidden Door’s venue, the cinema space will not be wheelchair accessible and we are really sorry about this. Please contact festival@hiddendoorblog.org for further information about the venue’s accessibility.
Tickets are £16 (concessions £14), which includes admission to all Hidden Door events on 2nd June. We have a limited amount of free tickets for those who are unemployed and for asylum seekers as well as some half price tickets (£8) for those on a low income. Please email laura@sqiff.org if you require a discount code for either of these ticket options as they must be booked in advance through the ticketing webpage.

Free Pride Fundraiser: The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
2017-08-10 19:00 - 20:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Who killed Marsha P. Johnson? When the beloved, self-described “street queen” of New York’s Christopher Street died in 1992, the NYPD called her death a suicide. Protests erupted but the police remained impassive and refused to investigate. Now, twenty-five years on, documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson examines Marsha’s death and her extraordinary life.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of CCA with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets available. English language with English captions.
Content note: discussion of violence, sexual assault, and suicide.
This event is a fundraiser for Free Pride 2017. No need to book – just show up on the night and we will be taking donations on the door – suggested donation £5. We also welcome people to hang out in the CCA bar afterwards for informal chat about the film.

SQIFF 2017 Programme Launch and Pub Quiz (ages 18+)
2017-08-17 20:00 - 23:59 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Be the first to get your hands on the SQIFF 2017 programme and find out what we have in store for this year’s Festival!
Alongside launching our programme, we are hosting a big queer pub quiz. Know your Tangerine from your Tomboy? Your Bound from your Brokeback Mountain? Join SQIFF’s own Mädchen in Uniform Alice and Ruth for a fun and fiendish night of queer movie trivia and general gaiety. Winning team gets passes for SQIFF 2017 plus there’s a bonus prize for best team name!
The quiz is open to teams of 4. If you don’t have a team, you are welcome to sign up and we’ll organise people into teams on the night. Booking in advance is essential and each team member must have booked a ticket. The event is free and open to ages 18+ only due to licensing laws. Book tickets via the link below.

Saramago’s Terrace Bar will be open for business during the event with food and drink available to buy.
ACCESS
The event takes place in Saramago’s Terrace Bar at CCA, which has level access at the Sauchiehall Street entrance and a lift to the Terrace Bar on the 1st floor. There is an accessible toilet on the 1st floor. Quiz questions will be available in written format for anyone who needs. If you require any more access info, contact the venue on 0141 352 4900 or email helen@sqiff.org.

Workshop: Working Class LGBTQ People in Film and TV
2017-09-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Media Education, 183 Dalry Road, Edinburgh, EH11 2EB, United Kingdom
Beginning with clips from TV and film, we examine how LGBTQ working-class identities have been demonised, patronised, and romanticised onscreen, before considering representation we would like to see in future. We will also think about how cultural venues can be made more welcoming to working-class people.
This workshop is for working-class people (background and/or current situation) and allies. Although interactive, there is no pressure to actively participate in discussion. It is run by two working-class femme lesbians who navigate middle-classness via their work. Leanne Dawson is a lecturer at University of Edinburgh and Laura Wylie is completing a Masters in sexuality and class at University of Stirling.
Suitable for ages 15+.
ACCESS: Space on ground floor with level access throughout. Accessible toilet available. BSL interpretation for event.
This workshop is FREE with booking in advance recommended. To book, please use the button below.

Looking Awry: Don't Look At Me That Way (Dundee)
2017-09-22 18:15 - 19:45 | DCA, 152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY, United Kingdom
Hedi is the new neighbour of Iva, who is raising her daughter Sophia by herself. The two women start a relationship and Iva is desperately in love. However, when Iva’s estranged father appears, Hedi is strongly attracted to him. Director and star Uisenma Borchu crafts an enigmatic tale about the pitfalls of monogamous expectations, breaking free of taboos, and existing as a bisexual woman of colour in a straight, white society.
Screening with short film Self and Others (6 mins), a study of the visual language of sexual fluidity as captured through the lens of film history. With an introduction by Jacob Engelberg, programmer of Brighton-based queer film strand, Eyes Wide Open Cinema. Part of Looking Awry: Representing Bisexual* Desires On Screen.
ACCESS: Level or lift access to all public areas of the building with one exception. The cinemas are fully ramped with wheelchair areas and removable seats. Accessible toilets available. Mongolian and German languages with English subtitles. Hearing loop. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation for the introduction, please email info@sqiff.org and we will book this for you.
Content note: depiction of violence.
Ticket prices vary. To book, please use the button below or call DCA box office on +44 (0)1382 909 900.

Looking Awry: Don't Look At Me That Way (Aberdeen)
2017-09-23 15:30 - 17:00 | belmont filmhouse, 49 Belmont St, Aberdeen, AB10 1JS
Hedi is the new neighbour of Iva, who is raising her daughter Sophia by herself. The two women start a relationship and Iva is desperately in love. However, when Iva’s estranged father appears, Hedi is strongly attracted to him. Director and star Uisenma Borchu crafts an enigmatic tale about the pitfalls of monogamous expectations, breaking free of taboos, and existing as a bisexual woman of colour in a straight, white society.
Part of Looking Awry: Representing Bisexual* Desires On Screen.
ACCESS: All areas of the building are accessible to customers with limited mobility, including wheelchair users. There is a lift in the main foyer that serves all floors and the basement bar and cafe. Screen 3 has five wheelchair spaces at the front of the auditorium. Accessible toilets available. Wheelchair spaces for screening must be booked in advance. Mongolian and German languages with English subtitles. Hearing loop.
Content note: depiction of violence.
Ticket prices vary. Tickets on sale end August.

Looking Awry: Don't Look At Me That Way (Edinburgh)
2017-09-23 15:40 - 17:10 | Edinburgh Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ
Hedi is the new neighbour of Iva, who is raising her daughter Sophia by herself. The two women start a relationship and Iva is desperately in love. However, when Iva’s estranged father appears, Hedi is strongly attracted to him. Director and star Uisenma Borchu crafts an enigmatic tale about the pitfalls of monogamous expectations, breaking free of taboos, and existing as a bisexual woman of colour in a straight, white society.
Screening with short film Self and Others (6 mins), a study of the visual language of sexual fluidity as captured through the lens of film history. Followed by a discussion to celebrate Bi Day of Visibility on bi representation with Jacob Engelberg, programmer of Brighton-based queer film strand, Eyes Wide Open Cinema, and academic Maria Pramaggiore. Part of Looking Awry: Representing Bisexual* Desires On Screen.
ACCESS: Filmhouse Foyer and box office are reached via a ramped surface from Lothian Road. Cinema 3 has one wheelchair space accessed via a platform lift. Advance booking for wheelchair spaces is recommended. Accessible toilets available. Mongolian and German languages with English subtitles. BSL interpretation. Hearing loop.
Content note: depiction of violence.
Ticket prices vary. Tickets on sale late August.

Fox and His Friends (Inverness)
2017-09-23 18:00 - 20:05 | Eden Court, Bishops Road, Inverness, IV3 5SA, United Kingdom
In 1970s West Germany, a young working-class gay man wins the lottery and is taken advantage of by his overbearing bourgeois lover. New German Cinema superstar and queer filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder created his most explicit survey of gay culture in Fox and His Friends and stamped his trademark, very cynical impression of human relationships onto it. Fassbinder himself plays the suggestible Fox with supporting cast featuring several from the director’s famous entourage including Harry Baer and Kurt Raab. A great chance to see a restored classic and an opportunity for those unfamiliar with the legendary filmmaker’s work to get acquainted.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of Eden Court with Cinema space on ground floor. Accessible toilets available. Wheelchair spaces for screening must be booked in advance. German language with English subtitles.
Ticket prices vary. To book, click on the button below or call Eden Court box office on +44 (0)1463 234 234.

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (Stornoway)
2017-09-23 20:00 - 21:30 | An Lanntair, 55 Kenneth St, Stornoway, HS1 2DS
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin celebrates a beloved storyteller, following his evolution from conservative son of the Old South to gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired others to reclaim their lives. Director Jennifer M. Kroot weaves a fascinating life story exploring a creative artist who served in Vietnam and was invited to the White House to meet Richard Nixon before being radicalised and becoming San Francisco’s great chronicler. For anyone who’s ever read Tales of the City or any of Maupin’s other excellent books and wondered what the man who wrote them is like.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of An Lanntair with Cinema space accessible from ground floor. Two disabled parking spaces available directly outside main entrance on Kenneth Street. Wheelchair spaces for screening must be booked in advance. Induction loop available. English language with English captions.
Ticket prices vary. To book, please use the button below or call An Lanntair box office on +44 (0)1851 708 480.

Looking Awry: Don't Look At Me That Way (Glasgow)
2017-09-24 15:00 - 16:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Hedi is the new neighbour of Iva, who is raising her daughter Sophia by herself. The two women start a relationship and Iva is desperately in love. However, when Iva’s estranged father appears, Hedi is strongly attracted to him. Director and star Uisenma Borchu crafts an enigmatic tale about the pitfalls of monogamous expectations, breaking free of taboos, and existing as a bisexual woman of colour in a straight, white society.
With an introduction by Jacob Engelberg, programmer of Brighton-based queer film strand, Eyes Wide Open Cinema. Part of Looking Awry: Representing Bisexual* Desires On Screen.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of CCA with Cinema space on ground floor. Accessible toilets available. Mongolian and German languages with English subtitles.. Hearing loop. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation for the introduction, please email info@sqiff.org and we will book this for you.
Content note: depiction of violence.
Ticket prices on a sliding scale according to your circumstances. Choose between FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8 (prices include CCA booking fee) according to what you can afford. See our ticketing information for more details.
To book, click on the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (Inverness)
2017-09-24 19:15 - 20:45 | Eden Court, Bishops Road, Inverness, IV3 5SA, United Kingdom
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin celebrates a beloved storyteller, following his evolution from conservative son of the Old South to gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired others to reclaim their lives. Director Jennifer M. Kroot weaves a fascinating life story exploring a creative artist who served in Vietnam and was invited to the White House to meet Richard Nixon before being radicalised and becoming San Francisco’s great chronicler. For anyone who’s ever read Tales of the City or any of Maupin’s other excellent books and wondered what the man who wrote them is like.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of Eden Court with Cinema space on ground floor. Accessible toilets available. Wheelchair spaces for screening must be booked in advance. German language with English subtitles.
Ticket prices vary. To book, please use the button below or call Eden Court box office on +44 (0)1463 234 234.

Workshop: Scriptwriting with Asten Holmes-Elliott
2017-09-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Award-winning filmmaker Asten Holmes-Elliott, writer and director of shorts James Dean and Citizen M and co-founder of Glasgow-based collective Lock Up Your Daughters Filmmaking, will examine questions and situations that arise when writing a script with a queer storyline/LGBTQI characters. Suitable for those who would like either feedback on a script already in development or inspiration for a new piece. Feel free to bring your ideas along on the day.
Kindly supported by LGBT History Month Scotland. Suitable for ages 15+.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of CCA with lift up to second floor for Clubroom. Accessible toilets available. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation, please email info@sqiff.org and we will book this for you.
This workshop is FREE with booking in advance recommended. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Who Will Fuck Daddy?
2017-09-26 19:00 - 20:05 | Transmission Gallery, 28 King Street, Glasgow, G1 5QP, United Kingdom
A hypnotic, intensely personal film featuring a mix of mysterious and mystical images: a masturbating moon, a couple having sex in a tent filled with balloons and electric lights, a pair of vibrators hidden in a head of lettuce. Beautifully episodic, Who Will Fuck Daddy? switches from documentary sequences about parenthood, gender, ecstasy, and rebirth, to cruising sites in the Swedish forest, to the question of just how much pressure to put on a pair of nipples. Lasse Långström’s latest work is as political as ever with an underlying theme of the death of heteronormativity and homonationalism and a wide variety of bodies on show.
Director Lasse Långström will join us after the screening for a Q&A.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of Trongate 103 with lift down to second floor for Transmission basement space. Accessible toilet available. Swedish language with English subtitles. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation for the Q&A, please email info@sqiff.org and we will book this for you.
Content note: depiction of sexual assault.
Ticket prices on a sliding scale according to your circumstances. Choose between FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8 according to what you can afford. See our ticketing information for more details.
To book, please use the button below.

SQIFF Schools: Real Boy
2017-09-27 13:00 - 14:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
“I just want to be loved by my family,” says Bennett, a 19-year-old trans man. “But for my family, it’s not as simple as that.” Ben’s mum is having a hard time coming to terms with her child’s transition. His dad and sister no longer speak to him. But thanks to social media, Ben meets a whole network of people who support him, including best friend Dylan and Joe Stevens, a trans musician. With their support, Ben comes to terms with his identity and begins to build bridges with his family. Real Boy is raw and breathtakingly honest, creating a sense of awe at the resilience of its subjects.
The screening will be followed by a discussion on transgender issues led by young people from LGBT Youth Scotland, which is kindly supporting this event. Suitable for ages 12+.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of CCA with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets available. English language with English captions. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation for the Q&A, please email info@sqiff.org and we will book this for you. Audio description available. Hearing loop.
Content note: discussion of alcoholism/addiction.
This is a FREE event open to all schools, youth groups, and colleges. To book a place, email info@sqiff.org. Please note the total running time of the event including discussion will be 1 hour 45 minutes.

SQIFF Opener: The Misandrists
2017-09-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Queer film legend Bruce LaBruce’s newest feature dives headlong into the world of the Female Liberation Army hiding out in the heart of Gerwomany. Led by Big Mother, the FLA indoctrinates its young recruits to take up the struggle of freeing all female people through a mix of revolutionary porn-making, songs about taking down the patriarchy, and even a sneaky dancing nun. But does the FLA’s brand of radical feminism hide some darker and more exclusionary beliefs?
We are excited to be joined by director Bruce LaBruce and actor Caprice Crawford for a Q&A after the screening followed by a drinks reception.
Presented in partnership with Goethe Institut Glasgow.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of CCA with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets available. English language with English captions. BSL interpretation for Q&A. Hearing loop.
Content note: depiction of violence and real surgical operations, discussion of sexual assault.
Ticket prices on a sliding scale according to your circumstances. Choose between FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8 (prices include CCA booking fee) according to what you can afford. See our ticketing information for more details.
To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

SQIFF Shorts: Sketches
2017-09-28 13:45 - 14:35 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A young man gets a job in Canada’s busiest gay bathhouse, a cartoonist from Rio de Janeiro draws members of the trans community to help deal with his own issues, the gender and disability politics of toilets are explored, a purifying ritual bath performed by Jewish brides is reinterpreted by two men, a gay guy dissects his family members over an awkward Sunday lunch, and a queer oddball seeks approval from their black peers despite a serious lack of hip-hop credentials. Presenting a spectrum of cute, inventive animated queer shorts from around the world.
We will be joined by filmmaker Carrie Hawks, director of black enuf*, for a Q&A after the screening. If you require BSL interpretation for the Q&A, contact info@sqiff.org to make arrangements.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of CCA with Cinema space on ground floor. Accessible toilets available. Various languages with English subtitles/captions. Hearing loop.
Content note: animated depiction of self-harming, mention of suicide, brief, covert reference to bloodplay.
Ticket prices on a sliding scale according to your circumstances. Choose between FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8 (prices include CCA booking fee) according to what you can afford. See our ticketing information for more details.
To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Tailor (10m)
Dir: Cala dos Anjas, Country: Brazil, Year: 2017
Tailor is a young cartoonist from Rio de Janeiro who started drawing cartoons to express issues around being trans he was facing and tell the stories of other transgender people.
Mikveh (6m)
Dir: Adrian Garcia Gomez, Country: USA, Year: 2016
In this reinterpretation of the mikveh – a purifying ritual bath performed by Jewish brides about to marry – the filmmaker and his husband’s immersions are disrupted by a government which refuses to recognise their marriage.
Sunday Lunch (13m)
Dir: Celine Devaux, Country: France, Year: 2015
Jean is at a Sunday brunch observing his infuriating extended family whom he tries to love despite their endlessly frustrating behaviour.
The Night Cleaner (5m)
Dir: Blair Fukumura, Country: Canada, Year: 2016
As the night cleaner in Canada’s busiest gay bathhouse, Travis has his work cut out for him. With good humour he shyly takes us on an amusing and sometimes harrowing tour through his nightly duties.
The Toilet (3m)
Dir: David Moore, Country: UK, Year: 2017
An animated short resulting from a cross-disciplinary, arts-based research project at Sheffield Hallam University exploring the toilet as a place of exclusion and belonging.
black enuf* (22m)
Dir: Carrie Hawks, Country: USA, Year: 2016
A queer oddball seeks approval from their black peers despite a serious lack of hip-hop credentials and a family that ‘talks white.’ This animated documentary takes you on a quest for belonging.

Tax on Me
2017-09-28 15:30 - 16:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
In the last few years, local authorities in Scotland have increased care charging, obliging people with disabilities to pay more than others to achieve the same basic human rights. Tax on Me is a hip-hop music video by filmmaker Kiana Kalantar-Hormozi and media coop responding to the Care Tax and the effect it has on people who need support.
Sophie Sexon, performance artist and researcher based in Glasgow, and Theresa Heath, researcher and founder of Wotever DIY Film Festival based in London, will join Kiana for the Tax On Me panel. Kiana will be discussing the origins of the film and activism against unjust government policies penalising people with disabilities.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of CCA with Cinema space on ground floor. Accessible toilets available. English language with English captions. BSL interpretation for discussion. Hearing loop.
Ticket prices on a sliding scale according to your circumstances. Choose between FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8 (prices include CCA booking fee) according to what you can afford. See our ticketing information for more details.
To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ATOPOS, generi teatranti
2017-09-28 18:00 - 19:20 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Atopos Compagnia Teatrale is an Italian theatre company bringing together professional and non-professional actors, both trans- and cisgender. This documentary is about their experiences in the creation of Atopos’ flagship production, Human Variables. The film describes reality through chronicling the making of a play, a conventionally fictitious endeavour. Human Variables is a show that builds on the real life experiences of the actors appearing on stage, ready to lay themselves bare at the same time as putting on a costume. A story of the eternal dialectic between actor and character, truth and fiction, life and theatre.
Director Alberto Amoretti and cinematographer Giovanni Hänninen of ATOPOS will be in attendance for a Q&A after the screening. If you require BSL interpretation for the Q&A, contact info@sqiff.org to make arrangements.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of CCA with Cinema space on ground floor. Accessible toilets available. Italian language with English subtitles. Hearing loop.
Ticket prices on a sliding scale according to your circumstances. Choose between FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8 (prices include CCA booking fee) according to what you can afford. See our ticketing information for more details.
To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Workshop: Filmmaking with Lasse Långström
2017-09-28 18:00 - 19:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Lasse Långström’s films – including Folkbildningsterror and Who Will Fuck Daddy?, both screening in the Festival – are always personal, political, and unlike anything else you’re likely to see. Collaborating with groups of friends, his work is always inventive and anarchic – and often really funny as well. In this workshop, Lasse will discuss his newest film, which he describes as a dirty, pleasurable, experimental, and occult tribute to alternative masculinities, and a postpatriarchal affirmation of transgender infinite wisdom. Lasse hopes to produce part of this film in Glasgow during and after SQIFF, so come along to hear more about it, and perhaps even get a chance to join in with the ongoing work of this brilliant and talented director!
Ages 18+ only.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of CCA with lift up to second floor for Clubroom. Accessible toilets available. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation, please email info@sqiff.org and we will book this for you.
This workshop is FREE with booking in advance recommended. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

We Are Failing
2017-09-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP, United Kingdom
“Failing is something queers do and always have done exceptionally well…” Jack Halberstam’s 2011 book The Queer Art of Failure explores how failure can be embraced as a form of resistance to the demands of heterosexual, capitalist society. At this event, we celebrate and assert our right to fail at life as individuals and communities. Featuring DIY, lesbian short film Big Queer Failure with filmmakers Rebecca Tritschler and Ellie Fawcett in attendance, a presentation by artist and DJ Natasha Lall on her novella SQUELCH, a tale of biphobic and racist microagressions on London’s queer scene, plus interactive discussion.
We will be providing snacks and drinks and encourage a relaxed and informal experience where failing in every sense is very welcome. Please feel free to be as socially awkward, depressed, and disillusioned etc. as you like.
ACCESS: Small ramp at entrance of Glasgow Women’s Library with screening space on ground floor. Accessible toilet available. English language with English captions. BSL interpretation for event. Hearing loop.
Ticket prices on a sliding scale according to your circumstances. Choose between FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8 according to what you can afford. See our ticketing information for more details.
To book, please use the button below or call Glasgow Women’s Library box office on +44 (0)141 550 2267.

Play the Devil
2017-09-28 18:15 - 19:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Greg is a studious 18-year-old from a working-class Trinidadian neighbourhood. He dreams of attending university thanks to a scholarship but his plans are put at risk by James, a wealthy married man who becomes sexually obsessed with him. When Greg pushes back against James, is it because he’s not interested or because he’s unable to come to terms with his own sexuality? As Greg’s hopes for the future begin to slip away, the older man offers to bankroll him to help him pursue his career. Can Greg stay true to his own desires or will he sacrifice them for the sake of his long-term ambitions?
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of CCA with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets available. English and Trinidadian English Creole languages with English subtitles. Hearing loop.
Ticket prices on a sliding scale according to your circumstances. Choose between FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8 (prices include CCA booking fee) according to what you can afford. See our ticketing information for more details.
To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Chavela
2017-09-28 20:30 - 22:00 | Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB, United Kingdom
Co-directors Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi interweave candid stories told by Mexican ranchera singer Chavela Vargas and those closest to her in this multi-faceted biographical film. An incomparable performer, she was also a lesbian woman who defied all social expectations, revolutionising music and challenging the stereotypical macho and hetero cultural norms of the times. This epic film beautifully captures Chavela’s fearless life, powerful artistry, and passionate love affairs, including her romance with the equally magnificent Frida Kahlo.
We are delighted to welcome director Catherine Gund, who will join us after the screening for a Q&A. In partnership with Scottish Documentary Institute.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of Glasgow Film Theatre with Screen 2 on ground floor. Accessible toilet available. Spanish and English languages with English subtitles. Hearing loop. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation for the Q&A, please email info@sqiff.org and we will book this for you.
All tickets £5.50. To book, please use the button below or call Glasgow Film Theatre box office on +44 (0)141 332 6535.

Queer Revolution: Folkbildningsterror
2017-09-28 20:30 - 22:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Imagine a queer anarchist punk musical in which a gang full of genderqueer and non-binary people set out to kidnap Michael Gove and the manager from your local Jobcentre, before setting all the animals free from Edinburgh Zoo. Well this is that, except set in Sweden. Folkbildningsterror is about taking on the neoliberal state with a bunch of catchy tunes about zombie sisterhood and non-payment of bus fares. Featuring Ronald McDonald being beaten the crap out of by a leftist rabbit. Come and hear the angels of trans liberation!
Director Lasse Långström will be present for a Q&A after the screening.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of CCA with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets available. Swedish and Danish languages with English subtitles. Hearing loop. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation for the Q&A, please email info@sqiff.org and we will book this for you.
Content note: depiction of comedy violence.
Ticket prices on a sliding scale according to your circumstances. Choose between FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8 (prices include CCA booking fee) according to what you can afford. See our ticketing information for more details.
To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

A Womb of Their Own
2017-09-28 20:45 - 22:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
How do people who don’t experience themselves as simply female or male handle a culture that offers only these two identities? A Womb of Their Own introduces a charismatic, funny, thoughtful group of masculine-of-centre-identified people who go through pregnancy. Each individual and couple navigates gender expectations – coming even from within the LGBT community – that don’t fit them. Follow their stories as they establish their own gender, develop their definition of family, grow a baby in their bodies, and birth, chestfeed, and parent their children as non-binary masculine people.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance of CCA with Cinema space on ground floor. Accessible toilets available. English language with English captions. Hearing loop.
Ticket prices on a sliding scale according to your circumstances. Choose between FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8 (prices include CCA booking fee) according to what you can afford. See our ticketing information for more details.
To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.
