SQIFF

A Girl At My Door
2018-12-07 12:30 - 14:30 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Promising police cadet Young-nam is sent to work in a small seaside village after her lesbian relationship is outed to her bosses in Seoul. Here, she meets a bullied teenager, Sun Dohee, and quickly becomes her trusted friend and defender. But as Young-nam looks further into Dohee’s family life, she discovers a history of abuse by her stepfather, Yong-ha, whose own murky past masks the history of exploitative labour practices that have led to his becoming a powerful figure in the town.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Film in the Korean language with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Film relies on visual material to convey ideas and contains no English language, so is less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

SQIFF Shorts: Weird and Wild
2018-12-07 15:00 - 16:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
An encounter with a strange funeral procession in Bethnal Green, a family losing the plot after meeting their son’s trans girlfriend, a middle-aged gay man seemingly eerily affected by a forest camping trip, and queer feminist gangs doing battle in a violent, dystopian present. Weird and Wild consists of work by filmmakers expert in creating tense atmospheres and queer moods whilst recounting their gripping tall tales.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in English, French, and Norwegian languages with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Films rely on visual material to convey ideas and two out of four films are non-English language, so less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

The Brother (4m)
Dir: Kai Fi’ain, Year: 2018
On a bleary eyed morning in Bethnal Green, you never know who you might bump into.
Calamity (22m)
Dir. Séverine De Streyker & Maxime Feyers, Year: 2017
France meets her son’s girlfriend for the first time. She loses control…
Skogen (The Forest) (20m)
Dir. Magnus Mork, Year: 2018
A middle aged couple is tenting in a forest. Bjørn seems more used to the setting than Lars, but they are both influenced by the nature. Surrounded by the trees they talk about big and small questions in life. A lovestory.
Swarm of Selenium (23m)
Dir. Maude Matton & SJ Rahatoka, Year: 2018
In the surreal dystopian present, two queer feminist crews cohabit the shells of an abandoned malt factory. As a troubling pattern begins to emerge from their mouths in the form of shattered glass, all are shaken, but some are hit harder than others. Through dance, visual work, and anti-work, they merge forces to try to care for one another and combat the insidious violent process which seems to increasingly come from within.

Workshop: Documentary Filmmaking with Donal Mosher
2018-12-07 15:00 - 18:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
We are delighted to welcome US-based director, photographer, and musician Donal Mosher to Glasgow for a filmmaking workshop hosted by SQIFF and Scottish Documentary Institute.
Donal Mosher is the collaborative director with Michael Palmieri of the award-winning documentary features October Country, Off Label, and The Gospel Of Eureka, as well as the shorts Rougarouing, Marseilles, and Peace in the Valley. He has published fiction, non-fiction, and reviews for The Fanzine, Talkhouse, and the LAMBDA award-winning Portland Queer Anthology. His photo project The Vibrancy Is Killing Me opened in Munich, Germany in 2015 and became the basis for Strange Gardens, an ongoing live cinema series that has been performed at the Risk/Reward Festival, and toured the US with Pop Up magazine.
In this unique 3 hour workshop Donal will explore his approach to filmmaking. He will screen excerpts from his work and give feedback on your own projects in development.
There are limited places on this workshop available. Booking in advance recommended.
We will contact all attendees with a link to a registration form to fill out if you would like to discuss a specific project during the workshop.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below.

Click here for tickets for Donal Mosher’s film, The Gospel Of Eureka, screening at 5.30pm on Sunday 9th December at CCA Glasgow.

ACCESS
If you would like to attend this workshop and require BSL interpretation, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

SQIFF Shorts: Queer Arab Lives
2018-12-07 15:30 - 16:35 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A series of shorts that reveal the social intricacies of queer Arab life. Nazem, a genderqueer Egyptian-Iraqi drag-queen, prepares for a performance informed by childhood memories of her mother. A lesbian woman from Lebanon takes a fairground ride with her friends where their conversation turns to sex, relationships, and desire. And a Syrian trans woman navigates everyday life in 90s Beirut.
Curated by Samar Ziadat in partnership with Dardishi, a zine and Festival of Arab womxn’s art.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in Arabic, English, and French languages with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Films rely on visual material to convey ideas and are majority non-English language, so less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Three Centimetres (9m)
Dir: Lara Zeidan, Year: 2018
In the oldest fun park of Beirut, four young female friends go on a Ferris Wheel ride. During this claustrophobic open-air journey, they touch on intimate subjects, from making best use of three centimetres to Joanna’s recent breakup. However, Suzie’s breakup advice leads to an unexpected confession.
RUN(A)WAY ARAB (12m)
Dir. Amrou Al-Khadi, Year: 2017
Nazeem is a 26 year old Middle Eastern drag queen who names herself QUEEN ZA DREAM – she is preparing for a show with the utmost gravity, with an outfit evocative of an Egyptian deity.  Interwoven with this is the story of Nazeem as a genderqueer 8 year-old boy, and the close bond he has with his Iraqi-Egyptian mother, Halima. Whilst flamboyant and in many ways a drag queen herself on the surface, Halima is governed by the strict expectations of gender in Arab society.
Cinema Fouad (41m)
Dir. Mohamed Soueid, Year: 1994
Khaled, a Syrian transgender migrant dreams of undergoing gender transition surgery. While trying to make a living from various menial jobs, she falls in love with a Palestinian freedom fighter and joins his resistance. Gently, compassionately, Cinema Fouad draws a portrait of Khaled and introduces the viewer to one of Beirut’s rarely seen netherworlds.

Workshop: SKOOSH 3.30pm
2018-12-07 15:30 - 17:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
How can we imagine and build a sex party space dedicated to our desires and needs? SKOOSH WORKSHOP is a space to experiment and explore this question in a group environment.SKOOSH comes to SQIFF with two workshops, one at 12pm and one at 3.30pm.
SKOOSH is dedicated to celebrating desire and worshipping self-love through sex parties, workshops, and events for all queer people across Glasgow. You do not need to have any prior knowledge of sex parties to attend this workshop, just an openness to explore. Please note, the workshop is not a sex party.
Led by queer artist and founder of SKOOSH, Bobbi Cameron. Bobbi is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Glasgow. Her practice runs in conversation with SKOOSH and uses queer feminist discourses to navigate, celebrate, and dissect issues around sexuality and sex spaces in contemporary culture. SKOOSH hosts a number of small sex and play parties throughout the year in secret locations across Glasgow. We will be hosting a party to coincide with SQIFF 2018: please email for further details via skooshglasgow@gmail.com.
Workshops are at 12pm and 3.30pm. Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
If you would like to attend this workshop and require BSL interpretation, please contact access@sqiff.org. Hearing loop available.
Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Workshop: Creating Online Content with BBC The Social
2018-12-07 17:00 - 18:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
BBC The Social is an award-winning digital team based at BBC Scotland creating online content and developing new creative talent. The channel has a strong focus on allowing LGBTQ+ contributors to take the lead when it comes to creating content that covers topics such as LGBTQI+ rights, dating when gay and disabled, and comedy through a queer lens. This workshop will share with you the secrets to making successful online content and let you know how you can get involved creating your own content for BBC The Social.
Suitable for people at all levels and stages of their content-making careers.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
If you would like to attend this workshop and require BSL interpretation, please contact access@sqiff.org. Hearing loop available.
Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

on the tips of our tongues
2018-12-07 18:30 - 19:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
on the tips of our tongues intertwines artist film and sound works, readings and new writing. Concerned with illegible archives and embodied gestures this thing stems from Camara Taylor’s ongoing practice based research project, wet blue embrace(s), which explores strategies and aesthetic practices amidst the Black Queer Atlantic.
Curated and presented by artist and researcher Camara Taylor.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in English with English language subtitles/captions. BSL interpretation for readings. Hearing loop available.
Please contact access@sqiff.org to find out more about the films and level of suitability for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Dykes, Camera, Action! + BOOM BUST: Feminist Filmmakers Blowing Up the Canon
2018-12-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Lesbians didn’t always get to see themselves on screen. But between Stonewall, the feminist movement, and the experimental cinema of the 1970s, they built visibility, and transformed the social imagination about queerness. Filmmakers Barbara Hammer, Su Friedrich, Rose Troche, Cheryl Dunye, Yoruba Richen, Desiree Akhavan, Vicky Du, Jenni Olson, film critic B. Ruby Rich, and others share moving and often hilarious stories from their lives and discuss how they’ve expressed queer identity through film.
With a special presentation from curator Jenny Clarke (Club des Femmes), who brings their feminist film toolkit to SQIFF. With wise words and talking points from feminist filmmakers and critics from around the globe, So will set out why things need to change, and what we – as viewers, critics, programmers, and activists – can learn and do to take down mainstream cinema, while having ‘dykes, camera, action’-inspired fun on the way.
Presented in partnership with Glasgow Feminist Arts Festival.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Film in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. So Mayer’s presentation will be BSL interpreted. Hearing loop available.
Film relies on visual material to convey ideas but has a lot of voiceover and commentary, so is relatively accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

The Wizard of Oz (an asexual reading)
2018-12-07 20:45 - 22:40 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
1939 Hollywood fantasy movie, The Wizard of Oz, is known for its strong association with gay male culture, thought to be the origin for homosexual men using the code ‘Friend of Dorothy’ to identify themselves to each other from the 1950s onwards. However, other readings are possible. Academic writer Alexander Doty saw Dorothy as a lesbian, torn between her attraction to the femme Glinda and butch Wicked Witch of the West. Meanwhile, internet user ‘Spoofmaster’ posted a reading of the film online which regards Dorothy as asexual because she chooses gay non-human companions – that’s the Scarecrow, Tinman, and Cowardly Lion – whilst in Oz. We invite viewers to focus on the latter idea and think about asexuality and its hiddenness (or not!) in popular culture.
Introduced with the reading of extracts from Spoofmaster’s post in The Asexual Visibilty & Education Network’s online forum, titled ‘The Wizard of Oz: an asexual reading.’
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Film in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. The introduction will be BSL interpreted. Hearing loop available.
Film relies on visual material to convey ideas but has a lot of explanatory dialogue, so is relatively accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

The Wild Search
2018-12-07 21:30 - 22:55 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A documentary film crew follows another documentary film crew as they attempt to understand the mating habits of San Francisco lesbians. A tour-de-force of queer women and genderqueer sex, The Wild Search is the ultimate pomo-homo-porno. An early work from powerhouse Shine Louise Houston and her company, Pink & White Productions, known for its championing of indie porn filmmaking and honest depiction of queer desire.
Screening with short Shiny Jewels (14 mins), in which Shine Louise Houston speaks with Shine Louise Houston and her co-director Shine Louise Houston about a day in the life of an adult filmmaker.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Films rely a lot on visual material to convey ideas, so are less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Party: Giovanni's Room with Peach
2018-12-07 22:00 - 2018-12-08 03:00 | The Art School, 20 Scott Street, Glasgow, G3 6PE, United Kingdom
Spanning wide themes and genres to provide a junction between underground and the carnivalesque, Giovanni’s Room is a space for all things queer, all people of colour, and all those that party in solidarity.

Focused on community, and being a space nurturing the visibility of queer, black, PoC, trans, and non-binary people who carry their open hearts and dancing bodies through its doors. Giovanni’s Room explores facets between love, solidarity, and dance music, while promoting the under-represented and gaining a unified momentum.

Each party will be tailored by the sounds of the artists who perform. Featuring Peach (NTS/Intergraded), Sofay, and Plantain Chipps.

Tickets are priced £8, £6 for students, and free for unwaged. To book, please use the button below. Tickets are also available on the door. For free tickets for unwaged, please email entergiovannisroom@gmail.com.

ACCESS
The Art School has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.

LEAP Sports Scotland presents: Light in the Water
2018-12-08 12:00 - 13:45 | Scottish Youth Theatre, The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow, G1 1TF, United Kingdom
In 1982, soon after the first Gay Games was held in the US, ‘West Hollywood Swim Club,’ as it was known then, registered as the first openly gay masters swim and water polo club. This documentary follows the club’s battle for acceptance, from humble beginnings to its members becoming a renowned force fighting injustice in the world of competitive sports. A fascinating historical record of sport, prejudice, and community love and survival.
Join LEAP Sports Scotland after the film to discuss the role of LGBTI sports clubs with David Barbour (Saltire Thistle FC), Lenna Cumberbatch (Paris Gay Games 2018), Pantelis (Leon) Xydias (Glasgow Alphas RFC), and Ian McBain (Glasgow FrontRunners).
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below.

ACCESS
Film is in the English language with English language subtitles/captions.
Film contains some visual ideas but has a lot of dialogue, so is relatively suitable for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
Scottish Youth Theatre has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

East Asia Focus: Until Rainbow Dawn
2018-12-08 12:30 - 13:35 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
After meeting at their Deaf school in Central Japan, Hana and Ayumi become close friends, and quickly fall in love. But when Hana comes out to her parents, they throw her out of the house. Ayumi takes Hana along to a queer Deaf meetup in Tokyo, where they meet and befriend a supportive group of trans, gay and lesbian Deaf people who tell them their own personal stories. Made by a majority Deaf cast and crew, Until Rainbow Dawn is a remarkable, authentic story of queer Deaf Japanese culture.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in Japanese and Japanese sign languages with simultaneous Japanese and English subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Film relies a lot on visual material to convey ideas and uses almost all Japanese sign language, so is less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Wild Nights with Emily
2018-12-08 15:00 - 16:30 | Scottish Youth Theatre, The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow, G1 1TF, United Kingdom
Writer/director Madeleine Olnek (The Foxy Merkins, Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same) challenges the idea of 19th Century poet Emily Dickinson as a prudish recluse in this surreal comedy. Featuring Molly Shannon as the supposedly reserved literary icon engaging in lesbian romping and sticking it to the patriarchy of the male-dominated literary establishment. A unique take on the period drama, Wild Nights with Emily also features voiceovers and onscreen text showcasing Dickinson’s poetry and passion.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below.

ACCESS
Film is in the English language with English language subtitles/captions.
Film contains lots of visual ideas and minimal, often surreal dialogue, so is less suitable for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
Scottish Youth Theatre has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

DESIRES AND RESISTANCE | UNEARTHING TRANS LEGACIES
2018-12-08 15:00 - 16:40 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Anonymous sexual encounters and flirtations with the camera, dress-up with Flawless Sabrina, and a night at the Stonewall Inn with Marsha P. Johnson: this programme proposes alternative modes of retrieving and disseminating a trans* past through an erotic gaze. Addressing an erasure of trans* legacies, these works place trans* sexual expression and resistances in conversation with a non-linear idea of history that is both real and fabricated, defiantly looking toward a future of pleasure, play, and beauty.
Curated and presented by Finn Paul in partnership with Outfest LGBTQ Film Festival in LA.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. The introduction will be BSL interpreted. Hearing loop available.
Films rely on visual material to convey ideas, so are less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Outlaw – Excerpt – first 16 min (16m)
Dir: Alisa Lebow, Year: 1994
Leslie Feinberg, a self-identified “gender outlaw” who has spent much of zir life passing as a man, speaks with passion and intelligence about zir exp…
St Pel (16m)
Dir. Jason Barker, Year: 1998
Interviews with 5 friends and the queer retelling of a story of a medieval saint.

FlyHole (6m)
Dir. Malic Amalya, Year: 2017
FlyHole tells the story of a housefly who transitions into a man in order to cruise gay bars. Text and images are appropriated from the March 1985 issue of the adult, gay digest magazine, Manscape, including illustrations by Mike Kuchar.
She Whose Blood is Clotting My Underwear (3m)
Dir. Vika Kirchenbauer, Year: 2016
Made for the performance project Cool For You, this video follows an artist’s research on thermal vision and the enhanced gazes of modern warfare. She uses these technical means to discuss intimacy and the body.
At Least You Know You Exist (16m)
Dir: Zackary Drucker, Year: 2011
Made in collaboration with New York performer and drag queen Flawless Sabrina, the film At Least You Know You Exist explores the interaction between two artists of different ages.
First Love (5m)
Dir. Alec Butler, Year: 2002
Our trans/2spirit/intersex hero Alick takes a walk in the birch grove with Kay, the high school siren, the girl of their dreams, things get hot and wet, melting hearts and the cold snow of the Canadian landscape.
beside the water, 1999-2003 (12m)
Dir. Finn Paul, Year: 2018
In this provocative video essay, queer artist Finn Paul mixes up sexual discovery, community formation and the isolation of desert landscapes in a collection of erotic snapshots.
Mighty Real (3m)
Dir. Vicente Ugartechea, Year: 2018
A young trans person embodies confidence and power in this cross-generational sexual encounter.
Happy Birthday, Marsha! (14m)
Dir. Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel, Year: 2016
Happy Birthday, Marsha! is a fictional short film that imagines transgender rights pioneers Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera in the hours leading to the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City. The film stars Mya Taylor as Marsha P. Johnson.

SQIFF Shorts: Queer Scotland
2018-12-08 15:30 - 17:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Our 2018 Scottish shorts programme contains another exciting range of work by and about LGBTQ+ people and communities within our (un)fair land. Among the imagery and themes included are the search for community and intimacy, trans embodiment, anti-queer conditioning, erotic fantasies in rural landscapes, lost love, spinsterhood, tarot cards, crayfish, and witches! Featuring a spectrum of narrative and experimental styles encompassing melodrama, film-poetry, animation, collective filmmaking, documentary, and diaristic footage.
We hope to be joined by a number of the filmmakers for a Q&A.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in English, Scottish Gaelic, and British sign languages with English language subtitles/captions. The Q&A will be BSL interpreted. Hearing loop available.
A mixture of film styles with around half relying on visual material to convey ideas and half conveying ideas via dialogue or voiceover. The large majority of films are English language. So, the screening is relatively accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

My Loneliness is Killing Me (16m)
Dir: Tim Courtney, Year: 2018
A young genderqueer individual searches for community and intimacy, uncovering an unexpected sexual and emotional connection within the darker edges of the nocturnal metropolis.
These Are My Hands (8m)
Dir. Evi Tsiligaridou, Year: 2018
These Are My Hands is a short documentary film-poem written and performed by radical British playwright, Jo Clifford. It is a deeply moving, personal account of transgender embodiment in a lifetime, speaking of wounds, challenges, victories, and the journey towards self-empowerment. The poet’s voice is embraced by a lyrical, mesmerising soundtrack and together with the graceful and intimate visuals composes a profoundly tender piece.
Enid & Valerie (2m)
Dir. Matthew Kennedy, Year: 2018
Enid & Valerie is a short film about a lone spinster named Valerie. Here we venture in to her dreams, where she meets Enid (a witch). Could this be the start of an unlikely friendship?
Long Lost Lover (5m)
Dir. Sandra Alland & Ania Urbanowska, Year: 2017
Bisexual deaf poet, Bea Webster, performs a poem in British Sign Language about her return to Thailand. Poem in English and BSL by Bea Webster; reading of poem by K. Yvonne Strain. Part of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press, 2017), edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka and Daniel Sluman.
HEARTS (8m)
Dir. Nas Saraei, Year: 2018
Sarah, a lost and stuck in a rut 20-something, ponders and reflects on love in Edinburgh, after losing the ‘one’ she thought was the ‘one’.
Pouring On House (10m)
Dir. Conor Baird, Year: 2018
Pouring On House engages with the gradual event of leaving a longtime family home. This strange grief is caught between the familiarity and fascination of interiors and the surrounding suburban sites. Throughout, a body surveys potential presences of contamination whilst coming to realise a disorientating hopelessness felt from ongoing anti-queer conditioning.
Submerged Village (21m)
Dir. Andrew Black, Year: 2017
Expanding on elements of Pamela Colman Smith’s drawing for The Moon tarot card – two dogs, a freshwater crayfish, a pool of water, a mountainous landscape – Submerged Village takes discrete moments at rural locations in Yorkshire and the West coast of Scotland and claims them as queer experiences.

Filmmaker Social
2018-12-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Are you queer filmmaker working in Scotland or beyond? Come and join us for some networking, schmoozing, and boozing.
A chance to meet others who are LGBTQ+ and interested or already working in filmmaking. Share ideas, discuss your projects, or just hang out and have a nice time. We hope to be joined by representatives of some of Scotland’s film funding bodies and exhibitors who will be available to give you more info on what they offer and are looking for.
This year we are offering a ‘buddy system’ for people who are anxious or nervous about coming along to this by themselves. Please email access@sqiff.org if you could like to make use of this.
This is a free event open to all.

ACCESS
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access. The event takes place in Saramago’s Terrace Bar on the first floor.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.

A Moment In The Reeds
2018-12-08 17:30 - 19:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work. When Leevi’s father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and spend a few days discovering one another during the Finnish midsummer. A response to the dearth of queer narratives in Finnish cinema, A Moment in the Reeds is among the first queer feature films made in the country. Viewing Finland from the perspectives both of an immigrant and an emigrant, the film casts the long-marginalised voices of sexual and ethnic minorities centre-stage in a story about the search for freedom, acceptance, and a place to call home.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Film in Finnish and English languages with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Film relies on visual material to convey ideas and contains a lot of Finnish language dialogue, so is less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

SQIFF Shorts: Deaf Perspectives
2018-12-08 18:00 - 19:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A showcase of work by and about Deaf queer filmmakers and artists. Films include Dickie Hearts’ latest short, zombie spectacular The Deaf vs The Dead; a documentary about Deaf gay porn actor, Rick; a film-poem, featuring Donna Williams, about translation between British Sign Language and English, Bilingual Poet’s Dilemma; and The Unlimited House of Krip, a doc exploring the fusion of D/deaf and disabled performers with the extravagant world of vogue culture.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in English and German as well as British, American, and German sign languages with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Films rely to some extent on visual material but most have explanatory dialogue and voiceover, so are relatively accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

The Deaf vs The Dead – Episode 1: “Outbreak” (7m)
Dir: Dickie Hearts, Year: 2017
When the undead apocalypse breaks out in Los Angeles, an out Deaf man must find a way to survive and protect his loved ones, even if it means teaming up with some unlikely people.
Rick (16m)
Dir. Jan-Peter Horstmann, Year: 2017
Ricco Muller was crowned Mr Gay Switzerland in 2009 and now finds a home under the bright lights of the adult film set as Rick Louis, coming into himself away from the limitations that society has tried to put on him as a gay, D/deaf person.
Bilingual Poet’s Dilemma (4m)
Dir. Sandra Alland & Ania Urbanowska, Year: 2017
Deaf poet Donna Williams playfully shows the difficulties of translation between British Sign Language and English. Poem in English and BSL by Donna Williams; reading of poem by K. Yvonne Strain. Part of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches Press, 2017), edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka and Daniel Sluman.
The Unlimited House of Krip (26m)
Dir. Garry Robson & Jane Farley, Year: 2018
Exploring the fusion of D/deaf and disabled performers with the extravagant world of vogue culture. Fittings Multimedia Arts formed a “House” of Deaf performers to walk in the Legendary House of Suarez Vogue Ball and the process – from auditions to performance – was recorded as a celebration of diversity.

East Asian Focus: The Story of the Stone
2018-12-08 18:00 - 19:45 | Scottish Youth Theatre, The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow, G1 1TF, United Kingdom
A queering of a tale from classical Chinese literature, thoroughly modernised and relocated to the midst of Taipei’s gay community. After the death of his boyfriend, Lin heads to the city, where he starts up a new relationship with waiter Josh. But their love is quickly threatened by jealousy, temptation, and tragedy. Beautifully stylised and acted, The Story of the Stone depicts a full range of the gay male experience in modern-day Taiwan, from its darkest sides to those of redemption and hope.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below.

ACCESS
Film is in the English language with English language subtitles/captions.
Film largely non-English language with only a small amount of significant spoken English dialogue and strong visual components, so less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print handouts available.
Scottish Youth Theatre has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Pink Excavation
2018-12-08 18:30 - 19:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Pink Excavation is Natasha Lall’s first feature length film. With Lall as the narrator and cameos from local queers Mina Baird and Junie Latte, this DIY film explores the preservation of queer histories in Glasgow, 2518. Pink Excavation sees Lall excavate 90s-00s technological relics that are outdated in the 2500s and become frustrated at their lack of understanding on how to access information from these ancient technologies. Upon interactions with an archaeologist and a ghost Lall discusses whether or not the poor archiving of LGBT culture has a positive impact on the queer community. The film is a lo-fi, sci-fi contemplation on the pros and cons of queer visibility.
Screening with short Reality Fragment (14 mins) by Qigemu, which examines how multiple lived worlds, each their own mix of memories, sensations, and thoughts, coexist with de facto presentations of distance, history, and totality.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Films in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. Hearing loop available.
Films rely to a large extent on visual material to convey ideas, so are less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

QWPS presents: Queer The Screen
2018-12-08 20:00 - 21:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Queer Words Project Scotland presents a preview of some of the stories and poems featured in We Were Always Here, an anthology of weird, queer Scottish writing being published in February 2019 by 404 Ink. Experience a selection of stories and poems influenced by film and pop culture from some of the movers and shakers of queer Scottish literature including Kirsty Logan, Heather Valentine, and AR Crow. The readings will be interspersed with a selection of short films influenced by poetry and prose, and followed by a panel discussion – hosted by Michael Lee Richardson – on the crossover between books, poems, and film.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS

Films in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. Readings and panel discussion BSL interpreted.

Films rely on visual material to convey ideas with a lot of poetic voiceover, so are relatively accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.

CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Tomorrow Never Knows
2018-12-08 20:30 - 22:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A sensitive documentary looking at the life and death of Shar Jones, a transgender person with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease, and the difficult choice he and his wife Cynthia Vitale faced as the couple struggled to figure out how to proceed amidst his chaotic decline. Tomorrow Never Knows highlights the couple’s journey as they set a course to Shar’s final days. This tragic love story offers profound implications for increasing awareness about choice in living and in dying.
We have a list of content notes on our website for every film in the programme but please be especially aware that this film contains graphic images of death and dying.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Film in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. The post-film discussion will be BSL interpreted. Hearing loop available.
Film relies on visual material to convey ideas but has a lot of voiceover and commentary, so is relatively accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Nitrate Kisses
2018-12-08 21:00 - 22:30 | Scottish Youth Theatre, The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow, G1 1TF, United Kingdom
Pioneer of lesbian cinema Barbara Hammer weaves striking images of four gay and lesbian couples with footage of an unearthed, forbidden, and invisible history, searching eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of queer culture. Questions of historic representation are examined through addressing the margins, between-the-line readings, and images outside of prescribed textual boundaries. Archival footage from Lot In Sodom (1933), often regarded as the first queer film made in the United States, as well as footage from German narrative and documentary films of the thirties, are interwoven with contemporary footage in this multi-faceted, haunting documentary.
Screening with Generations (15 mins), a film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below.

ACCESS
Films are in the English language with English language subtitles/captions.
Films contains a lot of visual ideas with minimal dialogue, so are less suitable for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
Scottish Youth Theatre has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Luke & Jack present: Bishop Black Retrospective
2018-12-08 21:00 - 23:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
We are excited to bring Berlin-based actor and performer Bishop Black to SQIFF to present a retrospective of his amazing and varied work. Bishop has worked with some of the most prodigious and provocative directors in queer porn including Shu Lea Cheang, Erika Lust, Morgana Muses, and Bruce LaBruce. He has handpicked for us a selection of films central to the development of his career and approach, exploring his transition from gay male to queer porn and his identity as a black queer performer amongst other themes. Join us for a stimulating and seductive evening of x-rated shorts followed by Bishop in conversation about his art with Drew Bigglestone and Ian Diamond of Luke & Jack.
In partnership with Luke & Jack, Scotland’s premiere sex boutique.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
Film in the English language with English language subtitles/captions. The post-film discussion will be BSL interpreted. Hearing loop available.
Film relies on visual material to convey ideas but has a lot of voiceover and commentary, so is relatively accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Having My Cake (20m)
Dir: Morgana Muses, Year: 2015
Having My Cake is a sumptuous film detailing a woman’s journey to Paris where she manages to not only have her cake, but eat it as well. Starring Morgana Muses and Bishop Black.
Dominate Me (12m)
Dir. Erika Lust, Year: 2016
Can you handle this one, guys and girls? This is a story dripping with lust. A story about ecstasy in the land between pleasure and pain, where restriction can feel like the warmest embrace, and the lash of a whip like the softest kiss… Erika Lust’s latest release in XConfessions is a BDSM story about a man who longs to be dominated by a woman.
The End (22m)
Dir. Noel Alejandro, Year: 2018
Javier is an obsessed artist who is grieving the end of a relationship. His sorrow comes as a combination of memories, instinct and denial, and the mourning’s harsh feelings will compromise his sense of reality. Surrounded by doubt, and subjected to several addictions, Javier fights to find peace – until his lattermost move take him to a surrealistic emotional purgatory.
Gloaming (12m)
Dir. Vex Ashley & Four Chambers, Year: 2017
The period of time when the sun falls below the horizon line and tears of blue and orange gradiate the sky. I’ve always called this indigo hour but apparently it’s more commonly called blue hour and the Scottish call it the gloaming.
The indigo in the sky isn’t exactly black or blue, it’s not quite day or night. It exists in a gap, without definition.
Zombie Queer Punk Urban Post Porn Horror Show (5m)
Dir. Tchivett, Year: 2017
Basically a crazy romp through industrial Berlin by porn stars made up as zombies, all of them licking and humping anything in sight like they’re fresh brains.

Meet The SQIFF Programmers
2018-12-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Your chance to meet some of the programmers behind the Festival, find out more about the process of finding and selecting films, and ask any questions you might have. As a community festival, we welcome feedback on our approach, so encourage those with thoughts and ideas on queer arts programming to come along and let us know what you think about this year’s event. We also very much welcome those with less experience of queer arts to join the session and contribute, or just listen to/watch what’s going on if you prefer. This will also be a good opportunity for those wanting to get into film exhibition to find out more.
This informal event is free and non-ticketed, just come along!

ACCESS
The discussion will be BSL interpreted. Hearing loop available.
Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.

Workshop: Is My Vagina Normal?
2018-12-09 12:00 - 13:30
Is my vagina normal? This is a question almost every vagina-owner has asked themselves at some point. But just like fingerprints, no two vaginas are the same. Is Your Vagina Normal? is a pop up exhibition and workshop that is activities-based and travels around the country to festivals, prides, and other events. Everyone is welcome, but we particularly encourage anyone with a vagina or anyone who wants to learn about vaginas and vulvas to attend. We eschew what society thinks should be a ‘normal’ vagina and instead discuss anatomy and health using activities, games, and quizzes; and also just have some fanny fun doing vulva arts and crafts.
Facilitated by Florence Schechter from London’s coming-soon new Vagina Museum. In partnership with Luke & Jack, Scotland’s premiere sex boutique.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below.

ACCESS
The Space has good access for wheelchair users. Please email access@sqiff.org for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Leitis in Waiting + Lady Eva
2018-12-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Scottish Youth Theatre, The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow, G1 1TF, United Kingdom
Tonga, an island group in the South Pacific, has long considered trans women, known as leitis, an integral part of its culture, often carrying significant social status. But recent Western religious influences have seen their identities being increasingly challenged. This documentary traces their proud cultural history and highlights developments in their struggles against discrimination. Screens with the short film Lady Eva, which delves further into the story of leiti Eva Baron, one of the subjects of the feature.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below.

ACCESS
Films are in the English and Tongan languages with English language subtitles/captions.
Films have significant sections of non-English dialogue, title cards, and other visual components, so are less accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print versions of handouts available.
Scottish Youth Theatre has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Workshop: Telling Trans Stories
2018-12-09 12:30 - 14:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Jason Barker is an award-winning filmmaker, comix artist, and occasional stand-up comedian. His recent feature documentary, A Deal With The Universe, uses personal archive and home video diaries to chart the story of how he became pregnant. The film is screening at multiple festivals and has gained a UK distribution deal. Jason will deliver for us an interactive audio visual extravaganza about telling trans stories, exploring ways we can all break free from the sticky web of heteronormativity. Suitable for all levels of filmmaking experience.
Kindly sponsored by Scottish Trans Alliance.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

ACCESS
If you would like to attend this workshop and require BSL interpretation, please contact access@sqiff.org. Hearing loop available.
Large print versions of handouts available.
CCA has good access for wheelchair users. Click here for more details on venue access.
Comfy seating (bean bags) available. If you would like to reserve this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.

Walking:Holding
2018-12-09 14:00 - 15:30 | The Space, London Road, 257 London Road, Glasgow, G40 1PE, United Kingdom
What does your town look like from someone else’s perspective? What’s it like to hold hands with a complete stranger and walk through the city centre?
Performance art and mobile technology converge in Walking:Holding, a meditative documentary that journeys through urban landscapes exploring identity and intimacy in public space with a focus on LGBTQ+ experiences.
This film is a response to Glasgow based artist Rosana Cade’s award-winning interactive performance of the same name, which invites audience members to embark on a carefully designed route through a town whilst holding hands with a series of different local participants. Shot entirely on mobile phones, the film follows the performance to 6 towns across the UK between June and November 2016, bookended by the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump. This unique collaborative documentary offers an insight into the intimate work at a particularly poignant time in terms of identity politics, weaving together a range of perspectives and experiences from across the country.
Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and participants of the Walking:Holding performance. Supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and using public funds from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Image credit: Walking:Holding by Rosana Cade, Charlie Cauchi and Claire Nolan
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale £0-£8 depending on what you can afford. To book, please use the button below.

ACCESS
Film is in the English language with English language subtitles/captions.
We are awaiting information about how accessible the film is for blind and partially sighted audiences. Large print handouts available.
The Space has good access for wheelchair users. Please email access@sqiff.org for more details on venue access.
We have a limited travel fund to assist people to come to the Festival for those who could not otherwise afford to attend. If you would like to apply for this, please contact access@sqiff.org.
Tickets
In order to make SQIFF more accessible to those on a low income, we use a sliding scale ticket price of £0-£8 for our events. You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! Our ticket sales go towards supporting the vital work of LGBTQ+ filmmakers, artists and organisers. If you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please contact the relevant venue box office to let them know so it can be used by someone else. For more info on what you should pay, click here.
