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A brown person with short bleached blond hair, pink eyebrow make-up, and light blue lipstick poses, their upper half naked, one hand over their chest and one above their head. Behind them is a blue flowered pattern.

SQIFF Shorts: Intimacies

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Touch, connection, sensuality, bonding. Sharing of solidarity, friendship, grief, and (com)passion. This selection of short films from the UK, US, Brazil, and the Amazon trace intimacies between friends, family, communities, and lovers. The revolutionary potential of femme for femme relationships. Upholding trans and immigrant identities and memory across generations. Busting childhood isolation and fear of […]

Free – £8
A white person with long blue hair and glasses, a black leather jacket, sitting down. There is a bookshelf with DVDs and CDs behind them and an open box full of records to their right.

Norfolk Trans Youth: Respecting & Understanding Differences

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Commissioned by Mancroft Advice Project, a Norwich-based charity, and created by Scottish filmmaker Nicole O’Reilly, Norfolk Trans Youth: Respecting & Understanding Differences gives a voice to young trans people. Incorporating interviews with trans youth in Norfolk, O’Reilly’s debut feature gives its participants space to explain transness in their own words. Issues of discrimination, visibility, and […]

Free – £8
Three black people with dreadlocks, all of their faces partically cut off by the framing in a black and white image.

LUX Scotland presents: where did we land + Fi Dem I & II

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

London-based curator and artist Rabz Lansiquot screens their new moving image essay where did we land, an ongoing experiment interrogating the effect of images of anti-black violence produced and reproduced in film and media, and parts 1 and 2 of artist Zinzi Minott’s Fi Dem Series, a continued investigation into Blackness and Diaspora made annually […]

Free – £8
An Asian-American man sits wtih legs crossed, his head titled thoughtfully to one side, looking down. He has long black hair and wears a patterned shirt. In the background are bookshelves.

Autism-friendly Opening Night Shorts

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

We are putting on an autism-friendly screening of our Opening Night Shorts programme. Autism-friendly screenings are designed to make the cinema more inclusive and accessible for people with sensory sensitivities, and others who can benefit from this environment. We will not book the cinema more than half full. Lights will be left on low and […]

Free – £8
A white person wears an elaborate habit made of shiny material and a jeweled bee design on the forehead. They wear white make-up covering their face with a purple beard and lips, and the blue and pink of the trans flag elsewhere on their face plus big black eye make-up.

SQIFF 2019 Opening Night Shorts

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Sold Out - we can't guarantee but there's a good chance of returns if you come on the night 15 minutes before the event We launch the Festival with a stellar lineup of documentary shorts focused on LGBTQIA+ community and activism. Adam and the Alphas depicts the camaraderie of gay rugby team, the Glasgow Alphas. Bodies […]

Free – £8
A white young person starring intensely ahead with short dark hair sits in a changing room wearing just a small white towel around his waist as another white person with a white towel is seen walking part, blurred.

SQIFF Shorts: Luv Sucks

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Romantic relationships can be tough. SQIFF offers up an alternative to punching walls and texting your ex when pished with these shorts from the heart - as in stomping all over it and dumping it in the trash. A bisexual trio have a bust up in a toilet. A boy in a bath pines over […]

Free – £8
A young white person with long blond hair and long eyelashes is naked from chest up. Their hand covers their chest, touching their ear thoughtfully. They have a large tattoo across their shoulder. Behind is a pink wall.

Queen of Lapa

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Larger-than-life actress, cabaret performer, activist, and sex worker, Luana Muniz - arguably one of Brazil’s most recognisable trans personalities - shapes a new reality for a generation of trans sex workers in her hostel by providing a safe working environment in the dangerous neighbourhood of Lapa in Rio de Janeiro. Queen of Lapa explores day-to-day lives, quests for love, and housemate rivalries in […]

Free – £8
A stop motion figure of a brown person with short pink hair, grey jumper, and jeans sits with hands on lap looking down in a rail carriage. Next to them are drawn black and white figures.

SQIFF Shorts: Come Out Fighting

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Pushed into corners through marginalisation and oppression, the characters in these short films come out fighting for their bodily autonomy, rights, and liberation. YaliniDream performs a poem of refugee/migrant love for self and the world. Artist Liberty Antonia Sadler uses poetry to celebrate larger bodies in a fatphobic society. In Ponyboi, an intersex runaway and […]

Free – £8
A figure with a pink headscarf covering their top half completely with their back to camera looks out across a bright city filled with tall white buildings.

Birds of the Borderlands

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Four queer Arab stories are powerfully illuminated through genderqueer Australian filmmaker Jordan Bryon’s compelling piece of guerrilla filmmaking. Jordanian teenager Hiba is transitioning in secret, fearful of being killed by her Bedouin tribe; gay Iraqi refugee Youssef has fled Baghdad and is living in limbo in Bryon’s safe house in Amman; lesbian feminist Rasha hides […]

Free – £8
A white person with blond hair, wearing a pink SQIFF tshirt with zebra-stripped long-sleeve tshirt under it and black dungerees has a virtual reality headset on. They are upstairs at the CCA.

VR & Interactive Exhibition

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Our VR & Interactive Exhibition showcases stories from around the world told using the latest technology and innovative techniques. Experience the lives of trans people in Japan through the nostalgic style of early gaming, share eight LGBTQI+ individuals in Australia’s intimate memories of their mother’s kitchens via an interactive documentary, observe a mother and son […]

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