Watch Party: Fabiana
2020-10-10 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
For over three decades, Fabiana has lived a nomadic life as a trans woman trucker in Brazil. She has crossed the vast country hundreds of times over, never staying anywhere for too long. Confident and adventurous, she’s at home amongst the mostly-male truckers she encounters, and often hooks up with other women in her travels. But is she ready to finally settle down, when the open road has been her life? This documentary joins her on her last few journeys on the eve of retirement, sharing the connections and intimacies of her life.

Followed by a filmmaker Q&A. Part of Daydreams and Testimonials: Queer South America, curated by lesbian Argentinian translator, writer, and comedian A.B. Silvera. Fabiana will also be available on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channel between 5 and 18 October.

Tickets are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 12+.
The film has Portuguese audio with English language captions. BSL interpretation and live captioning provided for introduction and Q&A.
The film is 89 minutes long with a brief introduction at the start, a 5 minute comfort break after the film, and a Q&A lasting approximately 30 minutes.
Content notes: discussion of homophobia, sex, surgery, and death.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.
Tickets
Tickets for most live events are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. Our sliding scale allows you to choose what to pay based on what you feel you can afford. No evidence or proof of circumstances is required. If you can afford to pay more, we really appreciate it as we rely on this income to pay queer people fairly for their work and keep the festival going.

Party: LGBTI+ Elders Social Dance Club
2020-10-11 14:00 - 15:30
Calling all LGBTI+ Elders and allies – Dust off your dancing shoes, charge your glasses and get ready for the LGBTI+ Elders Social Dance Club – Online!
We might not be able to meet in person but we can use the magic of technology to connect, chat, and boogie. Just like regular Dance Clubs you can join in however feels right for you.
We think it’s more important than ever right now that we celebrate our community and come together in any way we can.
So please join us online so we can talk, laugh and dance together. Presented in partnership with SQIFF.
This event is FREE to attend. To receive the Zoom link and password to attend, please email thecomingbackoutball@nationaltheatrescotland.com.
The LGBTI Elders Social Dance Club is a National Theatre of Scotland and All The Queens Men co-production, in partnership with Eden Court, Luminate and in association with Glasgow City Council.

ACCESS
This event is open to all ages.
This event will have live captioning, BSL interpretation, and live audio description. We will send instructions on how to access the live AD to all ticket holders before the event. Contact us by emailing info@sqiff.org if you would like any more information about live AD during the Festival.
The event will have hosts with everyone able to join in with your camera and microphone switched on. However, you can leave these switched off if you prefer. The National Theatre of Scotland will record parts of the event for research, development, and publicity purposes only. Everyone will have the opportunity to opt out if they do not want to be recorded by turning off their camera. You will be told when recording is about to happen and see a red ‘recording’ symbol in the top left hand corner. No dance club members will record or screenshot the session, and by joining the group we assume that you agree to this.

We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Watch Party: Online Filmmaking Project
2020-10-11 17:00 - 18:30
A screening of one minute short films made by participants of our online filmmaking workshops taking place in September. We will invite the filmmakers to take part in a Q&A after the screening of their films. Hosted by filmmaking workshop facilitator Yasmin Al-Hadithi. Hadithi is co-founder of DOCMA_ docs – a global platform for the playful exploration of different doc-filmmaking styles – and DocKlub, “Scotland’s Support Group for Documentary Filmmakers”. Yasmin also works as a creative producer – most recently developing an international ‘film exchange’ for young people in Scotland and the Arctic called, Breaking The Ice.

Tickets are free. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
Films’ languages tbc with English language captions. BSL interpretation and live captioning provided for introduction and Q&A.
Content notes tbc.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Watch Party: Blindsided
2020-10-11 19:00 - 21:00
A documentary narrative about Patricia Livingstone, a deafblind, lesbian artist facing a series of losses and gains. The film weaves intimate, real time scenes shot over the course of eight years with home videos and photographs, relaying the story of a woman whose spark did not fade even in the face of hardship and loss. Screening with local short film, Blind Spot, exploring and attempting to simulate the experience of visual impairment.
After the screening, filmmaker and poet, Ross Wilcock, and film journalist and accessibility consultant, Charlotte Little, will respond to the films and discuss the experiences of Deaf and Disabled LGBTQIA+ people. Blindsided and Blind Spot will also be available on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channel between 5 and 18 October.

Tickets are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
The films have English audio with English language captions. BSL interpretation and live captioning provided for introduction and Q&A.
The event has live audio description. The films have lots of dialogue and voiceover, all English language.
The films are 80 minutes long with a brief introduction at the start, a 5 minute comfort break after the film, and a discussion lasting approximately 45 minutes.
Content notes: discussion of homophobia, ableism, domestic abuse, and brief mention of suicide; depiction of ableism, domestic abuse, and surgery.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.
Tickets
Tickets for most live events are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. Our sliding scale allows you to choose what to pay based on what you feel you can afford. No evidence or proof of circumstances is required. If you can afford to pay more, we really appreciate it as we rely on this income to pay queer people fairly for their work and keep the festival going.

Q&A: Game on: queer disruptions in sport
2020-10-12 18:00 - 18:45
Game on: Queer Disruptions in Sport is a documentary which shines a light on the experiences of those with diverse identities within grassroots sport. The film features the stories of gay runners Csaba and Benjamin from Hungary; Natalie, a Scottish lesbian boxer; Pol, an intersex rower from Bulgaria, and a German trans woman footballer called Jessi. Join us for a live Q&A with the film’s director Maria Takacs, protagonists from the film, and LEAP Sports.
Presented in partnership with LEAP Sports Scotland, promoting LGBTI participation and ending LGBTI-phobia in sport. The Q&A will also be live-streamed to Facebook.

Free event. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
The event has BSL interpretation and live captioning.
The event is 45 minutes long.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Watch Party: The Wound + South African Shorts
2020-10-13 19:00 - 21:30
Despite a rich queer history and long fight to guarantee the rights of queer people under the first democratic government of Nelson Mandela, queer and trans South Africans face many challenges, which intersect with class and cultural identities. This screening attests to those challenges but demonstrates that love and support comes from surprising and subversive places. The Wound explores the relationship between traditional Xhosa initiation rituals and queer identity, also alluded to in My Transgender Life (12m) by Yonela Simetu. The Men Who Speak Gayle (11m) celebrates a secret language used during the apartheid era to hide queer identities from the authorities.
Curated by Harvey Dimond and followed by a Q&A with Yonela Simetu, a Cape Town-based filmmaker and the director of My Transgender Life. Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and Lottery funding from the BFI.

Tickets are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
The films have Xhosa and English audio with English language captions. BSL interpretation and live captioning provided for introduction and Q&A.
The films are 2 hours long with a brief introduction at the start and a 30 minute Q&A after the films.
Content notes: discussion of racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, swearing, and violence; depiction of nudity, sex, violence, blood, death, and graphic depictions of animal slaughter.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.
Tickets
Tickets for most live events are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. Our sliding scale allows you to choose what to pay based on what you feel you can afford. No evidence or proof of circumstances is required. If you can afford to pay more, we really appreciate it as we rely on this income to pay queer people fairly for their work and keep the festival going.

Workshop: Queer Speculative Fiction with Katalina Watt
2020-10-14 18:00 - 19:00
Katalina Watt is an Edinburgh-based author and publisher with a background in digital publishing, copywriting, and bookselling. A champion of representative voices and stories, she has been published in various anthologies and magazines, and was longlisted for Penguin Random House UK’s 2020 Write Now programme. She is currently working on her debut Horror-Fantasy short story collection inspired by folklore of the Philippine islands. As part of the festival’s focus on all things speculative and fantastic, this informal event will feature an introduction to Katalina’s work, discussions around representation in new writing, and a chance for writers in the audience to talk through some next steps on what to do with their own work.
With thanks to the Scottish BAME Writers Network.

Tickets are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
This workshop has an age recommendation of 15+.
BSL interpretation and live captioning are provided for the workshop.
The workshop is 1 hour long.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Watch Party: Lesbian Shorts by Shu Lea Cheang
2020-10-14 21:00 - 22:00
Shu Lea Cheang’s work from the early-to-mid 1990s demonstrated an exciting fusion of identity politics and erotic exploration, making her one of the period’s most prominent queer media artists.
This collection presents two of her solo works and two collaborations, alongside a Q&A with Cheang hosted by scholar and critic B. Ruby Rich.
Part of our Shu Lea Cheang Retrospective, Cruising the Future. Cheang is a multi-media artist working in experimental video and net art since the early 1980s. Her work deals with the techno body, queer erotics and politics, race relations, and governmental and institutional power. Click here to access Cheang’s 2000 feature film I.K.U. on our Vimeo on Demand. Click here to access Fluidø (2017).

Tickets are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders on the day.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 18+.
The films have Japanese and English audio with English language captions. BSL interpretation and live captioning provided for introduction and Q&A.
Content notes: discussion of cancer, death, and sex; depiction of nudity and sex.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.

PROGRAMME
Sex Fish (6m)
Dir: Shu Lea Cheang, Country: USA, Year: 1993, Language/s: English
An erotic lesbian video involving swimming upstream, female power, and fish love. Made as a collaboration under the name E.T. (Ela Troyano) Baby (Jane Castle) Maniac (Cheang).
“In Sex Fish water provides the common denominator for nature imagery and explicit sex. Unlike 1970s feminist imagery, however, nature is sexualized rather than sex naturalized. Dripping from the faucet, spraying against a shower curtain, swirling down a toilet, water leads viewers from one sex scene to another, private to public and back again. Swimming through the video are various fish, seemingly unaware of the derogatory pun they enact, and all gulping enviously as cunnilingus surrounds them.”
—Chris Straayer, Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies: Sexual Re-orientations in Film and Video (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)
Sex Bowl (8m)
Dir: Shu Lea Cheang, Country: USA, Year: 1994, Language/s: English
All forms of human sport become sites for sexual play and celebratory eroticism.
“The tape’s images are quick, suggestive, and sexy: fingers moving into bowling balls, shoe-smelling and toe-sucking, a dog wearing chain jewelry, fish being wrapped at the market, young naked couples having sex…. Edited like a music video, the image track is a constant flow of fetishes that lure us into the promiscuous pace of girls who keep lists of their sexual encounters.”
—Chris Straayer, Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies: Sexual Re-orientations in Film and Video (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)
Fingers and Kisses (5m)
Dir: Shu Lea Cheang, Country: Japan, Year: 1995, Language/s: Japanese, English
Cheang has taken her camera to the streets for a candid glimpse of lesbian public sexuality. If Asian women and lesbians share a certain amount of invisibility in the culture, Fingers and Kisses offers not only a bold representation of both, but a challenge to the question “What do lesbians do?” Tokyo’s own out-and-loud music by Chu punctuates the narrative as what begins in the streets continues under the sheets.
Coming Home (5m)
Dir: Shu Lea Cheang, Country: USA, Year: 1995, Language/s: Japanese, English
This humorous video begins with two women—one white, the other Asian—attempting to fit into a Japanese bathtub. The awkward fitting of bodies into a small space is just one of the allegorical scenarios dramatized in a pressing appeal for lesbian rights. In a game of hanafuda (flower cards), the terms of lesbian domesticity are cleverly played out according to such legalities as joint property, social security, and pensions.

Discussion: Film Programming for QTIPOC
2020-10-15 18:30 - 20:00
A conversation with QTIPOC film programmers from across the UK. We’ll be tackling questions such as: What does it mean to programme for us, by us? What unique and specific challenges are we facing? How do we curate safe and nourishing spaces for our communities? How do we take care of our selves while doing this grassroots work? Guest speakers include queer crip Black fat femme and Fringe! Queer film & arts fest and freelance film curator, Tara Brown, Director of CineQ and Festival Manager of SHOUT Festival, Rico Johnson-Sinclair, and Scottish-Zimbabwean artist, researcher, and curator, Natasha Thembiso Ruwona.
This event is only open to QTIPOC (queer, trans, and intersex people of colour).

Tickets are free. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
BSL interpretation, live captioning, and live audio description provided for the event. We will send instructions on how to access the live AD to all ticket holders before the event. Contact us by emailing info@sqiff.org if you would like any more information about live AD during the Festival.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Watch Party: The Cancer Journals Revisited
2020-10-16 18:00 - 20:10
The Cancer Journals Revisited is prompted by the question of what it means to re-visit and re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience today. At the invitation of filmmaker Lana Lin, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, twenty-seven writers, artists, activists, health care advocates, and current and former patients recite Lorde’s manifesto aloud on camera, collectively dramatising it and producing an oration for the screen. The film is both a critical commentary and a poetic reflection upon the precarious conditions of survival within the intimate and politicised public sphere of illness.
Followed by a Q&A with director Lana Lin hosted by Anahit Behrooz. Anahit is an arts journalist based in Edinburgh, currently working as events editor at The Skinny and commissioning editor at Bella Caledonia, with bylines in The List, Girls on Tops, and Club des Femmes among others. Presented in partnership with Scottish Documentary Institute.

Tickets are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
The films have English, Spanish, and German audio with English language captions. BSL interpretation and live captioning provided for introduction and Q&A.
The film is 98 minutes long with a brief introduction at the start, a 5 minute comfort break after the film, and a 30 minute Q&A.
Content notes: discussion of racism including anti-Blackness, violence, cancer, and death.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.
Tickets
Tickets for most live events are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. Our sliding scale allows you to choose what to pay based on what you feel you can afford. No evidence or proof of circumstances is required. If you can afford to pay more, we really appreciate it as we rely on this income to pay queer people fairly for their work and keep the festival going.

Party feat FRAN.K & guests
2020-10-16 20:30
This year SQIFF X Vogue Scotland’s party features a performance by Vogue Scotland member FRAN.K alongside;
PURINA ALPHA
DAVID RONAN
SEQUOIA BARNES
MELE BROOMES
This live 3 hour virtual club is a collision of bodies on the dance floor in a rotating duet, mimicking our fleeting interactions in the club. Featuring four guest dancers, FRAN.K takes us on a journey through a three and a half hour soundtrack from DJ RyanAir broadcast on Zoom.
Participant videos will be set to off and mics muted on entry, so you can watch from the zoom or opt to turn on your camera to join the dance-floor. You can also join us in the chatroom, and once you’ve entered feel free to come and go through the night! Chatroom will be facilitated by our virtual host NUSSATARI.
Live Stream filmed by Daniel Hughes.
Lighting Design – Jazz Hutsby
Sound Mixing – Simon Howard / DJ RyanAir
Outfit Design Cover Image/ Pop /Techno – Asia Apolonia Przytarska
Content warning: The performance includes flashing lights and explicit language
House Rules: We are a club space that does not condone any discrimination of any kind. Anyone displaying such behaviour will be ejected. If you feel uncomfortable at any time please message in the chat to reach our security staff.
Tickets are free. To book, click the button below and you will receive a Zoom link for the event. When you enter the Zoom waiting room, please open the chat so we can say hello before you join the event.

ACCESS
The event will be captioned.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Workshop: Documentary Filmmaking with Lana Lin SOLD OUT
2020-10-17 16:00 - 18:15
**Please note this event is now sold out.**
Join us for a workshop in collaboration with Scottish Documentary Institute with Lana Lin, a filmmaker, artist, and writer whose creative practice concerns embodied vulnerabilities. Lana’s most recent film The Cancer Journals Revisited is a brave feature prompting the question of what it means to re-visit and re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast cancer experience today.
The workshop will be broken down into two one-hour sessions. In the first hour Lana will give an overview of her practice, particularly focussing on ethics of documentary filmmaking. For the second half of the session, Lana will workshop a couple of selected projects from submissions. Attendees are welcome to join with or without a film project in the making.

Tickets are free. To book, click the button below. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
This workshop has an age recommendation of 18+.
BSL interpretation and live captioning are provided for the workshop.
The workshop is 2 hours long with a 15 minute break in the middle.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Watch Party: Transdimensional Voices
2020-10-17 19:00 - 20:30
This collection of shorts uplifts trans* voices and showcases a wide range of trans* identifying talent based within Glasgow. Jamie Crewe’s “The Ideal Bar” — “Le Narcisse” — “Alec’s” touches on experiences of transphobia and LGBTQIA+ solidarity and conflict. Sorcha Clelland presents Where the Red Fern Grows, interrogating performance, queer club space aesthetics, and the consistent demolition of community spaces which seek to aid queer voices. Powder Snowdrop Catatonic is a performance featuring various camp characters by Sgàire Wood. The films cover a multitude of themes, depending on the viewer’s perception of the work.
Curated and hosted by Glasgow-based artist TAAHLIAH. There will be a Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening.

Image credit: Sorcha Clelland’s Where the Red Fern Grows.

Tickets are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
The films have English audio with English language captions. BSL interpretation and live captioning provided for introduction and Q&A.
The films are 32 minutes long with a brief introduction at the start and a 45 minute Q&A.
Content notes: depiction of violence, gruesome imagery, and an animal in distress.

The films in Transdimensional Voices include some loud music and abrasive sound effects, disorientating editing, and flashing lights.

We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.
Tickets
Tickets for most live events are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. Our sliding scale allows you to choose what to pay based on what you feel you can afford. No evidence or proof of circumstances is required. If you can afford to pay more, we really appreciate it as we rely on this income to pay queer people fairly for their work and keep the festival going.
PROGRAMME
“The Ideal Bar” – “Le Narcisse” – “Alec’s” (2m)
Dir: Jamie Crewe, Country: UK, Year: 2020, Language/s: No spoken language
“The Ideal Bar” – “Le Narcisse” – “Alec’s” is a dramatised exchange between two characters in a Glasgow nightclub, inspired by a sequence in Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness in which Stephen Gordon encounters a repellent reflection of herself in a Parisian gay bar. Their exchange is punctuated, as in Radclyffe Hall’s text, by the image of a panting, dying fox. Though it demands compassion, this fox is not real, and its blood looks perhaps more like lipstick. The video is scored by a hyperventilating concertina.
These characters are portrayed by performance maker and ogre Sorcha Clelland, and performance artist and music producer TAAHLIAH. In this version, TAAHLIAH is standing, and Sorcha is seated.
Powder Snowdrop Catatonic (17m)
Dir: Sgàire Wood, Country: Scotland, Year: 2020, Language/s: English and French languages
Produced in one room over the course of a week in the heart of lockdown, Sgàire Wood’s Powder Snowdrop Catatonic is an irreverent pantomime performance of mental deterioration under mandatory quarantine. Summoning a cast of capricious characters, Wood runs a Kübler-Ross style gamut of emotions precipitated by self-isolation, from misanthropic smugness to mind-bending ennui and cabin fever. Seen solely through the narrow lens of a smartphone camera, she dances before the flimsy trompe l’oeil facade of a Victorian parlour, existing in the space between coziness and claustrophobia, flippancy and sincerity. The film’s celebratory intimacy pays tribute to queer, radicalised or feminised practices which, being underrepresented in traditional art spaces, are relegated to the realm of domesticity and how under the circumstances in which the film was produced, have found a new appreciation and importance.
Where the Red Fern Grows (11m)
Dir: Sorcha Clelland, Country: UK, Year: 2020, Language/s: No spoken language
Sorcha Clelland’s Where the Red Fern Grows, titled after Wilson Rawls’ 1961 children’s book about hunting dogs, exists as a love letter to a rave and venue in Ibrox, Glasgow. Filmed at The African Arts Centre in May 2020 during the venue’s demolition and Scotland’s lockdown from COVID-19. The novel begins with an aspiration to heal and a birth of kinship. Character growth is continued through belief in a magic. Performing as SHREK 666, the embodiment of a demonic ogre shifting through monstrous transformation chained to catholicism, he revisits a site and performance which was formerly a scene of Queer Intimacy.
“The Ideal Bar” – “Le Narcisse” – “Alec’s” (2m)
Dir: Jamie Crewe, Country: UK, Year: 2020, Language/s: No spoken language
“The Ideal Bar” – “Le Narcisse” – “Alec’s” is a dramatised exchange between two characters in a Glasgow nightclub, inspired by a sequence in Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness in which Stephen Gordon encounters a repellent reflection of herself in a Parisian gay bar. Their exchange is punctuated, as in Radclyffe Hall’s text, by the image of a panting, dying fox. Though it demands compassion, this fox is not real, and its blood looks perhaps more like lipstick. The video is scored by a hyperventilating concertina.
These characters are portrayed by performance maker and ogre Sorcha Clelland, and performance artist and music producer TAAHLIAH. In this version, Sorcha is standing, and TAAHLIAH is seated.

Call & Response: Reading and Writing for the Future
2020-10-18 14:00 - 16:00
A workshop and reading group led by Martha Williams. The discussion and activities will be based around one or more of the texts selected for the Many Black Moons Ago, To Go programme. Texts will be sent to participants prior to the workshop.
The workshop is for Black people only.
Martha Adonai Williams is a writer, facilitator, and community organiser. She is a coordinator for the Black Feminist Bookshop and runs the Black womxn/non-binary writing space, Call+Response.

Free event. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
The event has an age recommendation of 18+.
BSL interpretation, live captioning, and live audio description provided for the event. We will send instructions on how to access the live AD to all ticket holders before the event. Contact us by emailing info@sqiff.org if you would like any more information about live AD during the Festival.
The workshop is 2 hours long with a comfort break in the middle.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Watch Party: Queer Scotland Shorts
2020-10-18 17:00 - 19:00
We are always proud to present some of the astonishing queer filmmaking made by local talent. This year features meditation on the queer body and its owner’s cultural history, the potential for zine culture to assist in the recovery from mental health difficulties, being censored when writing LGBTQ characters, living as a gay man in the era of 1950s McCarthyism, feminist sci-fi baby-making adventures, love on the mind of an admirer, and Deaf identities.
The screening will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A. There will be an award for Best Scottish Short voted for online by audiences.

Tickets are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 15+.
The films have Arabic and English audio with English language captions. BSL interpretation, live captioning, and live audio description are provided for the event. We will send instructions on how to access the live AD to all ticket holders before the event. Contact us by emailing info@sqiff.org if you would like any more information about live AD during the Festival.
The films will be around 1 hour long with a brief introduction at the start and a 30 minute Q&A.
Content notes: discussion of homophobia, misogyny, ableism, mental health issues, and suicide; depiction of homophobia, nudity, grief, and death.

The films in SQIFF Shorts: Queer Scotland include some abrasive sound effects.

We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.
Tickets
Tickets for most live events are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. Our sliding scale allows you to choose what to pay based on what you feel you can afford. No evidence or proof of circumstances is required. If you can afford to pay more, we really appreciate it as we rely on this income to pay queer people fairly for their work and keep the festival going.
PROGRAMME
Saturnrania (5m)
Dir: Holly McLean, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
A feminist sci-fi adventure documentary following an experimental physicist on her quest to have a baby.
The Fabric of You (11m)
Dir: Josephine Lohoar Self, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
Set in the Bronx, in the era of 1950s McCarthyism, everybody wants to look the same. Michael a gay, twenty-something-year old mouse, hides his true identity while he works as a tailor.
When Isaac enters the shop one day he offers the escapism and love Michael craves. In Michael’s confined apartment, he becomes tormented by the memories of Isaac’s tragic death. Michael’s memories and flashbacks are triggered when he notices Isaac’s jacket draped on the back of a chair. Haunted by the solace Isaac once offered, he struggles to come to terms with his loss.
Let My Body Speak (10m)
Dir: Madonna Adib, Country: UK, Year: 2020, Language/s: Arabic
This documentary is a personal and intimate journey exploring the repression experienced by the filmmaker during her childhood when she faced sexual control in a Damascus also experiencing a growing socio-political repression in the late 80s and early 90s. Through the creative use of family archive in Damascus mixed with current footage of her body she reconstructs the pain of the past absorbed by her body.
What is Wrong with Her? (7m)
Dir: Leah Francisco, Country: UK, Year: 2020, Language/s: BSL and English
Leah finds life and identity by moving past other people’s labels in this British Sign Language poem travelling through time and space. Produced by Solar Bear Theatre company through their digital arts programme, Solar Flares.
Zine There Done That (8m)
Dir: Fergus Cruickshank, Ana Hine, Country: UK, Year: 2019, Language/s: English
As Ana recovers from a serious mental health breakdown, she discovers the potential for zines to rebuild her life and rediscover her voice. This intimate documentary is captured on an eclectic mix of formats to mirror the delicate piecing together of Ana and her connection to the underground mental health zine community in the UK. A tender, creative, and ultimately empowering look at how art can bring people together to take ownership of their lives.
Be Seen (2m)
Dir: Sophie Stone, Country: UK, Year: 2020, Language/s: BSL
Love fully explored in the mind of the admirer. Produced by Solar Bear Theatre company through their digital short programme, Solar Snaps.
All the reasons behind a kiss (3m)
Dir: Aimie Willemse, Country: UK, Year: 2020, Language/s: English
A theatre student gets rebuked for writing LGBTQ+ characters in her zombie apocalypse play as “following the latest trend”, however it turns out, she has a personal reason to do so.
Real Boy (11m)
Dir: Jamie Rea, Country: UK, Year: 2020, Language/s: BSL
All the parts of life from the smallest atom to the meaning of life converge and form into a feeling of completeness within Joe. We share in this journey. Produced by Solar Bear Theatre company through their digital arts programme, Solar Flares.

SQIFF Closing Night Pub Quiz
2020-10-18 20:00 - 23:00
Join us for the closing night event of SQIFF 2020. Test your queer culture knowledge with our fun and accessible quiz covering everything from camp classics to contemporary movie controversies – plus some sport, music & history, all with an LGBTQIA+ flavour! You can join in with or without a team. There will be some exciting prizes on offer! We’ll also announce the winner of this year’s Best Scottish Short and say our heartfelt thank yous and tearful goodbyes to this year’s fest.
Quiz teams of up to 4 people. If you are in separate households, you will need an alternative way to communicate as we are running the Quiz via Zoom Webinar for access reasons. This means audiences will have their videos and sound off and can’t communicate with each other.

Tickets are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below. You can book a ticket up to one hour before the start time. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders a day or two beforehand.

ACCESS
BSL interpretation, live captioning, and live audio description are provided for the event. We will send instructions on how to access the live AD to all ticket holders before the event. Contact us by emailing info@sqiff.org if you would like any more information about live AD during the Festival.
The quiz will be 3 hours long with comfort breaks throughout.
We have a limited access fund to assist people with no or limited internet access to attend the Festival. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2020, please contact info@sqiff.org.
Tickets
Tickets for most live events are on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. Our sliding scale allows you to choose what to pay based on what you feel you can afford. No evidence or proof of circumstances is required. If you can afford to pay more, we really appreciate it as we rely on this income to pay queer people fairly for their work and keep the festival going.

Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America
2021-02-03 - 2021-02-18
Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America is a feature-length documentary revealing the untold stories of LGBT refugees and asylum seekers who have fled intense persecution from their home countries and who are resettling in the United States. As leadership in America continues to demonize immigrants and drastically restrict the flow of refugees and asylum seekers into the U.S., Unsettled follows Subhi, a gay Syrian refugee, Cheyenne and Mari, a lesbian couple from Angola, and Junior, a gender non-conforming gay man from the Congo, struggling to create new lives for themselves.
Click here to rent Unsettled on our Vimeo on Demand channel up until 17 February. You can rent the film on our pay what you can sliding scale of free to £8. Please note the film is only available to rent within the UK.
We are holding two free online events to discuss the themes of the film and the situation for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in the UK on 4 and 11 February. To book for our discussion 7-8pm on Thursday 11 February with Leni Candan from UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration Group and Solomon Adebayo LGBT Unity Scotland responding to the film, click the button below. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders on the day.

Presented in partnership with LGBT Unity Scotland, a community-led group providing essential support to LGBTQIA+ refugees, asylum seekers, and other migrants, and Scottish Borders LGBT Equality for LGBT History Month. Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and National Lottery funding from the BFI.

ACCESS
The film and events have an age recommendation of N/C 12+.
The film has English audio with English language captions. Live captioning provided for online discussions.
The film has quite a lot of dialogue and voiceover, all English language, and mostly bright images.
The film is 84 minutes long. Each discussion event is 1 hour long.
Content notes: Discussion and depiction of homophobic violence, honour-based violence, trauma, emotional distress, and substance abuse.

If you have any questions about accessibility for the film and events, please contact info@sqiff.org.
Film rental price

Rental of the film on our Vimeo on Demand is on a sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. Our sliding scale allows you to choose what to pay based on what you feel you can afford. No evidence or proof of circumstances is required. If you can afford to pay more, we really appreciate it as we rely on this income to pay queer people fairly for their work and keep the festival going.

Pride & Protest: Live Watch Party + Q&A with director Blaise Singh
2021-02-20 18:00 - 20:00
Pride & Protest is a documentary about QTIPOC communities and activists in Britain today and struggles surrounding the politics of desire, self-care, and found family. In the wake of the Birmingham protests against LGBTIQ+ relationship education in primary schools, director Blaise Singh follows various queer people of colour as they challenge homophobia and racism in their communities. They speak out against internalised shame and lack of representation, and we follow them trying to figure out their place in the world in the build up to UK Black Pride.
The film will screen on Zoom as a live watch party followed by a Q&A with director Blaise Singh and other members of the cast and crew. We will send out a Zoom link for the event to ticket holders on the day. We are partnering with An Lanntair to host this event to mark LGBT History Month 2021 this February.
This event is a ‘Pay What You Can’ event – come for free or pay what you can afford. To book, click the button below or call An Lanntair on 01851 708 480.

ACCESS
The film is English language with captions and the Q&A will have live captions available. The event is suitable for ages 12+. If you have any questions or access requests for this event, please get in touch by emailing info@sqiff.org.
Content notes: Discussion of racism, homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia; depiction of homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, and brief racist violence.

SQIFF 2021 Online
2021-10-02 08:00 - 2021-10-10 23:30
Several films from the SQIFF 2021 programme are available to rent online from SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channel until 10 October. You can access these films at any time during this period. Films on our Vimeo on Demand will be accessible within the UK only. Click here to access the online programme.

To watch films on our Vimeo on Demand channel, you will need to create a Vimeo account, which is free and quick to set up. Go to vimeo.com and click the option to ‘Join for free.’ You will need access to an email address to be able to join.
You will be asked to choose what you pay for each film or film programme on our Vimeo on
Demand channel. The default price for films on Vimeo will be set to £8, and you can click
‘Apply promo code’ and then enter a discount code of, for example, ‘6’ to pay £6, or ‘4,’ ‘2,’ or
‘free’ to get the pricing you choose. You will have up until 10 October to watch films once
you have rented them.
Films and programmes available to rent include:
A New Chapter Begins
GA(Y)MERS with an audio described version available
Changing the Game with an audio described version available

Sanctuary shorts in association with SQIFF + Q+A
2021-10-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Online
This community-curated programme* explores the acceptance of identity, self, and of the world around us, while highlighting the universal experience of being queer–with a special focus on being lesbian. The films’ instinctive narratives show the lows of being ‘othered’, and the highs of finding a safe space within that, no matter what age, country, or time period. Join us for powerfully diverse stories, told with heart, honesty, and a perfect amount of humour. You’ll leave the event with a new community of queer film-lovers: your very own sanctuary.
*Back in July, Sanctuary collaborated with SQIFF producer and co-founder Helen Wright to offer 2 online workshops for LGBTQIA+ people, aged 18+, to learn about film programming. Participants worked together to watch a selection of queer short films and make decisions about a final shorts programme. Thanks to Ewan McPherson, Kate Hammer, Liam Rees, JD Stewart, Merik Tiz, Ben Cave, Beth Cooper, Jonathan McLean, Vee Smith and Sand Owsnett.
This is a free event. Book tickets using the button below.

ACCESS
We’ll be using Zoom Webinar for this screening event and Q&A. Audience members will be able to interact with the discussion through the chat function. Once you book a ticket you’ll be sent a link to access the event, 24 hours before the event starts.
The films are in a mixture of spoken languages with English language captions and the Q&A will have live captions and BSL-English interpretation available. The event is suitable for ages 16+. If you have any questions or access requests for this event, please get in touch by emailing info@sqiff.org.
The total films running time is 1 hour 25 minutes.
This film and discussion may include reference to: mental health breakdown, homophobia, transphobia, alcohol or substance addiction. We appreciate this list is not comprehensive and encourage you to confidentially get in touch if there is a particular subject matter not listed you wish to avoid: hello@sanctuaryqueerarts.com.
PROGRAMME
The Way We Are (16m)
Dir: Amanda Ann-Min Wong, Country: Canada, Year: 2020, Language/s:
English
“The Way We Are” shares excerpts of stories from audio interviews with 4 queer Asian women: Katherine Chun, Wenda Li, Tamai Kobayashi, and Nancy Seto. Told in the present-tense, these stories are arranged in a way that explores the past as the present, and in doing so, immersing viewers into the real-lived experiences from a different generation.

A Story of Wedding (27m)
Dir: Wei Zhao, Country: France, Year: 2021, Language/s: Mandarin
To satisfy their families, Huanlin, a gay man, and Ziqiao, a lesbian, have agreed to have a marriage of convenience, which will be held online due to the pandemic. In addition, they have also agreed to have and raise a baby together. However, this decision is changing their lives before they know it.

Fora de Época | Out of Place (13m)
Dir: Drica Czech, Laís Catalano Aranha, Country: Brazil, Year: 2020,
Language/s: Portuguese
2018: Brazil’s general election. Emotionally shaken by the possibility of Bolsonaro being elected, a young lesbian takes refuge in her family’s farm. As she tries to understand why her mother spent the last days of her life alone in the old house, she is faced with revelations about her own story.

Subjekträume (Subject Spaces) (29m) Dir: Kat Voss, Country: Germany, Year: 2020, Language/s: German
Leather, metal, fur: Pelze Multimedia, West Berlin 1981-1996, provided a space for art, musix, sex parties, experiments. A glimpse into an almost forgotten site of lesbian/queer history.

SQIFF 2021 Access Information Session
2021-10-04 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Before this year’s in person festival starts on Wednesday 6 October, we’re holding a session for people to find out more about how to come along and access support.
Join our Access & Engagement Coordinators Charlotte and Kiana at an online session on Zoom to find out more about the festival and ask any questions you have.
BSL-English interpretation and live captioning will be available at the session. If you have any other access requirements to attend, please email info@sqiff.org.
The session is free and open to all. Book a ticket below to receive the Zoom link, which will be sent out one day before.

SQIFF 2021 takes place 6-10 October in person at CCA in Glasgow. Click here for Accessibility information including accessible versions of the brochure. You can also email info@sqiff.org to ask a question or get individual support to come along to the festival.

SQIFF 2021 Opening Night Shorts SOLD OUT
2021-10-06 18:30 - 20:15 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening**
Our festival opens this year with the first of our 2021 Scottish Shorts programmes, including multiple works giving a taster of the many themes to expect from the festival.
Featuring a poetic film in British Sign Language (Affirmation #6), selections from queer Black artists from Fringe of Colour (Ixwa Blue, Space 2: We’ve Come A Long Way, black queer nature poem for khadijah (and all of us)), sweet musings on trans life in Glasgow (You can run), and lots more. We hope that there will be something for everyone in our multifaceted queer community on our opening night.
Curated by Nat Lall. We hope to welcome several of the filmmakers for a Q&A. All ticket holders are invited to join us for a drink at CCA after the screening.

Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 12+.
English and Portuguese audio with English language captions. BSL-English interpretation by Lisa Li and live captioning by Louisa McDaid provided for the intro and Q&A.
Audio description available. Headsets available at the cinema entrance.

The films are 60 minutes long with opening night speeches at the start and a Q&A afterwards.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel and internet data top-up costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2021, please contact info@sqiff.org.
Audio Description Credits for short film ixwa blue:
Performed by Sri Gordon, written by Elizabeth Capot, QC by Stephen Christopher, Production and Sound Engineering by Stephen Kellner
Audio Description Credits for short film Space 2:
Performed by Sri Gordon, written by Elizabeth Capot, QC by Stephen Christopher, Production and Sound Engineering by Stephen Kellner

Queer Asia SOLD OUT
2021-10-07 18:00 - 19:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening. CCA Box Office are operating a waiting list for sold out events – please contact them directly to be added to this!**
This event hosts films that provide insight into contemporary queer Asian life. The films present tender moments of love and acceptance as well as conflict. We are often shown the pain, protest, and fear of being queer in Asia in the media. This is important – the global queer community should be aware of such intersectional struggles. But there are moments of humanity too. Even though this screening depicts vulnerability, it also explores queer joy.
Featuring three short films about queer Asian people, including Faraz Arif Ansari’s Sheer Qorma.
Curated by Nat Lall.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 16+.
English audio with English language captions. BSL interpretation by Lisa Li and live captioning by Norma Machaye for intro.

The films are 67 minutes long.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel and internet data top-up costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2021, please contact info@sqiff.org.

LUX Scotland Presents: After the Ice, the Deluge
2021-10-07 18:30 - 20:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Artist, writer, and educator Linda Stupart screens their new experimental moving image work After the Ice, the Deluge, a mostly diptych film which consists of both Linda’s performance as well as their research in the Arctic. The work also makes use of degraded film to enhance its theme of traumatised bodies and climate change. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Linda Stupart about their work and the way it engages with queer theory and environmental crises.
In partnership with LUX Scotland, a non-profit agency dedicated to supporting, developing, and promoting artists’ moving image practices in Scotland.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 16+.
English audio with English language captions. BSL interpretation by Catherine King and Yvonne Strain for the discussion. Please note with apologies we may not have live captioning available for the intro.

90 minutes long.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel and internet data top-up costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2021, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Rollick/Dance: From dirty to sensuous
2021-10-07 21:00 - 22:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Join us for an evening of music videos that will have you glad to be alive! In this screening, we present music videos and dance interpretations that encourage us to be carefree, to frolic, and to ponder the links that bind us all together as a Queer community. Prepare to be challenged, entertained, and to fight the urge to join in the dance: express yourself! Featuring Miguel Ángel Romero Yepes’ exploration of drag queen cabaret in The Red Pearl Queen.
Curated by Jamie Rea.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 12+.
English and Spanish audio with English language captions. BSL-English interpretation by Catherine King and Yvonne Strain for intro. Please note with apologies we may not have live captioning available for the intro.

The films are 67 minutes long.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel and internet data top-up costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2021, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Queer Brazil SOLD OUT
2021-10-08 18:00 - 19:20 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening. CCA Box Office are operating a waiting list for sold out events – please contact them directly to be added to this!**
This screening is a raw look into various Brazilian queer cultures. Despite the challenges faced by queer people in Brazil, this event was curated to primarily celebrate queer joy and community love. Tattoo, BEAT 97 and From time to time, I burn show the powerful connections between queer relationships. And whilst The Uninhabitable Ones takes an experimental approach into documenting queer Black diaspora, Unliveable explores the love and empathy in intersectional communities.
Curated by Indigo Korres.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 16+.
Portuguese audio with English language captions. BSL-English interpretation by Chloe Elder and live captioning by Francis Barret for intro.
79 minutes long.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel and internet data top-up costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2021, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Spill your Kinky (kink) SOLD OUT
2021-10-08 18:30 - 20:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening. CCA Box Office are operating a waiting list for sold out events – please contact them directly to be added to this!**
Join us to talk about all things kinky. This screening includes films which focus on how we view and experience sex in an age of technology from the seemingly simple to the more extreme. These filmmakers offer us a space to consider our own understanding of sex and the journey we have been on or could take, as well as an openness about accepting our own sex preferences. With love stories across genders and sexual identities, these films are funny and disturbing as well as erotic and profound. Sex is a story waiting to be told.
Curated by Jamie Rea.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 18+.
English, Italian, Russian, and Spanish audio with English language captions. BSL-English interpretation by Catherine King and Yvonne Strain and live captioning by Louisa McDaid for intro.
The films are 59 minutes long.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel and internet data top-up costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2021, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Reimagining Filmmaking
2021-10-08 20:30 - 21:35 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
This screening brings together a diverse range of work with each artist taking a unique approach to what it means to make a film. From videography to animation, these films play with the technical and artistic aspects of filmmaking. They offer provocations around the idea of experience and what we might think makes for exciting and intriguing viewing. Featuring various innovative experimental films such as Clodagh Chapman’s First Kiss (With a Girl); Grace Whitfield’s We Two; and Shantel Liao’s One Middle Ground.
Curated by Jamie Rea.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 18+.
English audio with English language captions. BSL-English interpretation by Catherine King and Yvonne Strain and live captioning by Francis Barret for intro and Q&A.
Audio description is available. Headsets available at the cinema entrance.

65 minutes long.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel and internet data top-up costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2021, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Horror Hour with Final Girls Berlin SOLD OUT
2021-10-08 21:00 - 22:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening. CCA Box Office are operating a waiting list for sold out events – please contact them directly to be added to this!**
Prepare yourselves for an hour of very spooky and very queer cinema. In partnership with the feminist horror film collective, Final Girls Berlin, we have put together a selection of otherworldly shorts. The screening is an amalgamation of the best queer horror submissions sent in to the SQIFF open call as well as FGB’s open call. Expect screaming dykes and plenty of bloodshed! Featuring the likes of furry-legged lesbians (Lone Wolf), crazy cat ladies (The Elephant Joke), and bloodsucking lust (You are a Lesbian Vampire), this thrilling selection is one not to be missed.
Curated by Nat Lall and Final Girls Berlin.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

ACCESS
This screening has an age recommendation of N/C 16+.
English and Korean audio with English language captions. BSL-English interpretation by Chloe Elder and live captioning by Louisa McDaid for intro.
57 minutes long.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel and internet data top-up costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2021, please contact info@sqiff.org.

Workshop: Queer Sounds in Music Production with TAAHLIAH
2021-10-09 12:00 - 14:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Local legend TAAHLIAH will lead an electronic music production workshop for members of the queer Black and people of colour community. Attendees will be given an introduction as to how she created her experimental pop project, Angelica. There will also be opportunities for one-on-one advice. An exciting event feeding TAAHLIAH’s skills and expertise back into the community she dearly loves.
Curated by Nat Lall.
Please note this workshop is open to Black people and people of colour only.
Please get in touch by emailing info@sqiff.org if you have any access requirements to attend this workshop.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8. To book, click the button below or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.

ACCESS
All ages.
120 minutes long.
We have an Audience Access Fund for travel and internet data top-up costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact info@sqiff.org.
If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2021, please contact info@sqiff.org.
