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Workshop: Scriptwriting with Asten Holmes-Elliott

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free

Who Will Fuck Daddy?

Transmission Gallery 28 King Street, Glasgow, 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, […]

Free – £8

SQIFF Schools: Real Boy

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

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SQIFF Opener: The Misandrists

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free – £8

SQIFF Shorts: Sketches

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free – £8

Tax on Me

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free – £8

ATOPOS, generi teatranti

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Workshop: Filmmaking with Lasse Långström

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free

We Are Failing

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, 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. […]

Play the Devil

Centre for Contemporary Arts 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 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 […]

Free – £8
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