SQIFF

Queer Women in Love: Go Fish (Dundee)
2015-12-01 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4HN, United Kingdom
Max is a too-cool-for-school young lesbian woman stressing over the fact she hasn’t had sex for ten months. After first dismissing hippy, excessive drinker of tea Ely, Max goes on a date with her, leading to a long-term mutual infatuation and a ‘will they, won’t they’ romantic trajectory. A collaboration between Guinevere Turner (The Watermelon Woman, Itty Bitty Titty Committee) and Rose Troche, Go Fish features a supporting cast of lesbian waifs and strays, including Ely’s sex addict roommate Daria and Max’s roommate Kia, whose girlfriend Evy has been kicked out her home by her homophobic mum.
Screening with short films Dyketactics and Summer, 1987. Dyketactics by Barbara Hammer is a sensuous, bold look at women’s desire and sexuality from a seminal lesbian filmmaker. Summer, 1987 by Krissy Mahan is set in summer in the late 1980s when a baby dyke has landed in a gay resort town during the AIDS crisis. She plays softball, goes clubbing, sleeps with lots of women, and learns about who she is and what she wants.

Presented with Dundee University Feminist Society.

Rated 18.
Free. Donations will be taken for World AIDS Day. Tickets only available on the door. Room 3G02 within Dalhousie Building.
Dalhousie Building is a wheelchair accessible venue. More details to follow soon. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact Helen on 07735 273 245 0r at helen@sqiff.org.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: Bound (Inverness)
2015-11-30 20:30 - 22:30 | Eden Court, Bishops Road, Inverness, IV3 5SA, United Kingdom
Violet (Jennifer Tilly) longs to escape her relationship with her mafioso boyfriend Caesar and seizes the chance when alluring ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) comes along. Violet and Corky enter into a clandestine affair and hatch a scheme to steal 2 million dollars of mafia money. The first film directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski, Bound employed Susie Sexpert to choreograph the steamy sex scenes, and drew inspiration from classic Hollywood director Billy Wilder in its noir crime thriller approach to queer love.
Screening with short film Goodnight My Love by Kellee Terrell. Two lovers are caught in a zombie apocalypse and the terror of impending doom brings out tensions between them as they take aim at each other’s faults.
Rated 18.
£6 (£5 concessions). To book tickets please use the button below. We have a number of free tickets to give away. If you can’t afford the ticket price for any reason, please email helen@sqiff.org or call 07735 273 245 to register for free entry.
Eden Court is a wheelchair accessible venue. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 01463 234 234.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: Stud Life (Glasgow)
2015-11-29 15:00 - 17:00 | Kinning Park Complex, 40 Cornwall Street, Glasgow, G41 1AQ, United Kingdom
JJ is a black lesbian ‘stud’ working as a wedding photographer with white gay best friend, Seb. When JJ falls in love with the beautiful and mysterious Elle, JJ and Seb’s friendship is tested for the first time as JJ has to choose between her hot new lover and her friend. Meanwhile, Seb rejects the advances of local drug dealer Smack Jack because he’s too busy lusting over ‘straightacting’ Manchester Joe from Gaydar. Stud Life depicts a slice of life inside an urban London LGBT scene rarely shown, where gender is up for grabs but desire follows strict rules. Directed by boundary-pushing filmmaker and campaigner for better representation of queer people of colour, Campbell X.
Screening with short film Janine by Cheryl Dunye, a video about a black lesbian woman’s relationship with a white, upper middle class girl when they were both in high school. Direct address and visual metaphor are used to examine class, race, and sexual difference.
Rated 18.
£5. To book tickets please use the button below. We have a number of free tickets to give away. If you can’t afford the ticket price for any reason, please email helen@sqiff.org or call 07735 273 245 to register for free entry.
Films screening with English subtitles for accessibility. Kinning Park is a wheelchair accessible venue: a ramp to access the building and level access once inside with an accessible toilet. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0141 419 0329.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: Break My Fall (London)
2015-11-29 13:00 - 15:15 | Picturehouse Central, Corner of Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Avenue, Piccadilly, London, W1D 7DH, United Kingdom
Liza is hovering precariously between change and self-destruction, between leaving her failing relationship with girlfriend Sally and finding success with their band, Blanket. Sally is working in an unfulfilling job and clinging to fantasies of a better life, ignoring the chaos around her. Their best friends are Vin, a rent boy who is secretly in love with Sally, and Jamie, who works nights at a gay cabaret bar and longs to find a nice man to settle down with. On the three days leading up to Liza’s 25th birthday, things finally come to a head and the four are plunged into an emotional meltdown. Set on the pulsating streets of East London with a soundtrack featuring stars of the UK independent music scene Micachu, Peggy Sue, and Scout Niblett.
Director Kanchi Wichmann and casts members Kai Brandon Lee and Collin Clay Chace will join us for a Q&A hosted by journalist and writer Ben Walters after the screening.
Rated 15.
Content note: depiction of sexual and domestic violence.
£13 (£10 concessions). To book tickets please use the button below.
Picturehouse Central is a wheelchair accessible venue. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0871 902 5755. Induction loop systems for d/Deaf and hearing-impaired people available.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: Desert Hearts (Inverness)
2015-11-24 20:30 - 22:30 | Eden Court, Bishops Road, Inverness, IV3 5SA, United Kingdom
It’s 1959 and reserved professor of English Vivian travels from New York to Reno, Nevada, to take advantage of that state’s reputation for speedy divorce processing after separating from her husband. She stays at a local ranch guesthouse whilst waiting for her divorce to be finalised and meets Cay, an open and seemingly confident lesbian woman. Vivian and Cay hit it off but turbulent emotions and prejudice-induced insecurities threaten their burgeoning love, which is played out against a backdrop of dusky, rocky landscapes and country and western songs.
Screening with short Dyketactics by Barbara Hammer, a sensuous, bold look at women’s desire and sexuality from a seminal lesbian filmmaker.
Rated 18.
£9 (£8/5 concessions). To book tickets please use the button below. We have a number of free tickets to give away. If you can’t afford the ticket price for any reason, please email helen@sqiff.org or call 07735 273 245 to register for free entry.
Eden Court is a wheelchair accessible venue. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 01463 234 234.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: Break My Fall (Edinburgh)
2015-11-23 19:00 - 21:30 | Media Education, 183 Dalry Road, Edinburgh, EH11 2EB, United Kingdom
Liza is hovering precariously between change and self-destruction, between leaving her failing relationship with girlfriend Sally and finding success with their band, Blanket. Sally is working in an unfulfilling job and clinging to fantasies of a better life, ignoring the chaos around her. Their best friends are Vin, a rent boy who is secretly in love with Sally, and Jamie, who works nights at a gay cabaret bar and longs to find a nice man to settle down with. On the three days leading up to Liza’s 25th birthday, things finally come to a head and the four are plunged into an emotional meltdown. Set on the pulsating streets of East London and with a soundtrack featuring stars of the UK independent music scene such as Micachu, Peggy Sue, and Scout Niblett.
Director Kanchi Wichmann will join us for a Q&A after the screening. Presented in association with DIVE Queer Party, Edinburgh’s eclectic, anything-goes queer party for, by and of the people.
Rated 15.
Content note: depiction of sexual and domestic violence.

£5. To book tickets please use the button below. We have a number of free tickets to give away. If you can’t afford the ticket price for any reason, please email helen@sqiff.org or call 07735 273 245 to register for free entry.
Media Education is a wheelchair accessible venue with level access throughout and an accessible toilet. We will screen the film with English subtitles for accessibility and will have a BSL interpreter for the Q&A.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: Break My Fall (Glasgow)
2015-11-22 15:00 - 17:30 | Kinning Park Complex, 40 Cornwall Street, Glasgow, G41 1AQ, United Kingdom
Liza is hovering precariously between change and self-destruction, between leaving her failing relationship with girlfriend Sally and finding success with their band, Blanket. Sally is working in an unfulfilling job and clinging to fantasies of a better life, ignoring the chaos around her. Their best friends are Vin, a rent boy who is secretly in love with Sally, and Jamie, who works nights at a gay cabaret bar and longs to find a nice man to settle down with. On the three days leading up to Liza’s 25th birthday, things finally come to a head and the four are plunged into an emotional meltdown. Set on the pulsating streets of East London and with a soundtrack featuring stars of the UK independent music scene such as Micachu, Peggy Sue, and Scout Niblett.
Director Kanchi Wichmann will join us for a Q&A after the screening. Kanchi will also give a workshop prior to the screening.
Screening with short Goodnight My Love by Kellee Terrell. Two lovers are caught in a zombie apocalypse and the terror of impending doom brings out tensions between them as they take aim at each other’s faults.
Rated 15.
Content note: depiction of sexual and domestic violence.

£5. To book tickets please use the button below. We have a number of free tickets to give away. If you can’t afford the ticket price for any reason, please email helen@sqiff.org or call 07735 273 245 to register for free entry.
Films screening with English subtitles for accessibility. Kinning Park is a wheelchair accessible venue: a ramp to access the building and level access once inside with an accessible toilet. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0141 419 0329.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: Go Fish (London)
2015-11-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Picturehouse Central, Corner of Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Avenue, Piccadilly, London, W1D 7DH, United Kingdom
Max is a too-cool-for-school young lesbian woman stressing over the fact she hasn’t had sex for ten months. After first dismissing hippy, excessive drinker of tea Ely, Max goes on a date with her, leading to a long-term mutual infatuation and a ‘will they, won’t they’ romantic trajectory. A collaboration between Guinevere Turner (The Watermelon Woman, Itty Bitty Titty Committee) and Rose Troche, Go Fish features a supporting cast of lesbian waifs and strays, including Ely’s sex addict roommate Daria and Max’s roommate Kia, whose girlfriend Evy has been kicked out her home by her homophobic mum.
Followed by a panel discussion on the state of lesbian cinema hosted by Theresa Heath, Co-director of London’s Wotever DIY Film Festival.
Rated 18.
£13 (£10 concessions). To book tickets please use the button below.
Picturehouse Central is a wheelchair accessible venue. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0871 902 5755. Induction loop systems for d/Deaf and hearing-impaired people available.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: Kanchi Wichmann Workshop (Glasgow)
2015-11-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Kinning Park Complex, 40 Cornwall Street, Glasgow, G41 1AQ, United Kingdom
Kanchi Wichmann is a BAFTA-nominated British filmmaker, best known for the lesbian feature Break My Fall. Trained in film and TV producion, Kanchi has also written and directed various short films as well as working on many more film sets in differing roles. This workshop is designed for those with filmmaking ambitions and ideas to learn more about practical aspects of directing and film language.
The workshop will take place 12-2pm and Kanchi’s film Break My Fall will screen at 3pm with food and drink available by donation in between.
£3. To book tickets please use the button below. We have a number of free tickets to give away. If you can’t afford the ticket price for any reason, please email helen@sqiff.org or call 07735 273 245 to register for free entry.
BSL interpretation will be available on the day. Kinning Park is a wheelchair accessible venue: a ramp to access the building and level access once inside with an accessible toilet.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: The Wedding Song (Glasgow)
2015-11-17 19:00 - 21:30 | The Glad Cafe, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G41 2HG, United Kingdom
During the Nazi occupation of Tunis, young friends Nour, who is Muslim, and Myriam, who is Jewish, live in a humble neighbourhood where their communities live in harmony. But the world shared by Jews and Arabs is being split by German plans to rid Tunis of its French and Jewish populations. Myriam’s mother (played by director Karin Albou) attempts to marry her off to a wealthy doctor in order to save the family from Nazi oppression. But Myriam and Nour, who have an ambigous, sensual bond, conspire to scupper the wedding plans.
Screening with short film Swollen Stigma by Sarah Pucill. A woman is alone in her home and is visited by visions of her lover, who appears as a phantom upside down in an armchair, hanging legs-down from the ceiling, playing dead on the floor, or eating roses in this pain-filled but sensuous ode to absent love.
Ages 18+ only.
£5. To book tickets please use the button below. We have a number of free tickets to give away. If you can’t afford the ticket price for any reason, please email helen@sqiff.org or call 07735 273 245 to register for free entry.
Films screening with English subtitles for accessibility. The Glad Cafe is a wheelchair accessible venue: level access to building with a ramp to access the screening area and an accessible toilet. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0141 636 6119.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: The Wedding Song (Inverness)
2015-11-16 18:00 - 19:45 | Eden Court, Bishops Road, Inverness, IV3 5SA, United Kingdom
During the Nazi occupation of Tunis, young friends Nour, who is Muslim, and Myriam, who is Jewish, live in a humble neighbourhood where their communities live in harmony. But the world shared by Jews and Arabs is being split by German plans to rid Tunis of its French and Jewish populations. Myriam’s mother (played by director Karin Albou) attempts to marry her off to a wealthy doctor in order to save the family from Nazi oppression. But Myriam and Nour, who have an ambigous, sensual bond, conspire to scupper the wedding plans.
Screening with short film Fingers by Sandra Alland, featuring a British Sign Language (BSL) poetry performance by Alison Smith about love, longing, and the sexiness of touch.
Rated 15.
£6 (£5 concessions). To book tickets please use the button below. We have a number of free tickets to give away. If you can’t afford the ticket price for any reason, please email helen@sqiff.org or call 07735 273 245 to register for free entry.
The Wedding Song is in French and Arabic with English subtitles. Fingers is a BSL filmed performance with English subtitles. Eden Court is a wheelchair accessible venue. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 01463 234 234.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: Go Fish (Glasgow)
2015-11-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB, United Kingdom
Max is a too-cool-for-school young lesbian woman stressing over the fact she hasn’t had sex for ten months. After first dismissing hippy, excessive drinker of tea Ely, Max goes on a date with her, leading to a long-term mutual infatuation and a ‘will they, won’t they’ romantic trajectory. A collaboration between Guinevere Turner (The Watermelon Woman) and Rose Troche, Go Fish remains as vital today as it was upon release 20 years ago.
With an introduction on ‘classic lesbian cinema’ by SQIFF’s Helen Wright.
Rated 18.
£8.50 (£7 concessions). To book tickets please use the button below. We have a number of free tickets to give away. If you can’t afford the ticket price for any reason, please email helen@sqiff.org or call 07735 273 245 to register for free entry.
Films screening with English subtitles and introduction BSL interpreted. The GFT is a wheelchair accessible venue. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0141 332 6535.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: Virgin Machine (Glasgow)
2015-11-10 19:00 - 21:00 | The Glad Cafe, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G41 2HG, United Kingdom
In this early film by director Monika Treut, wannabe writer and journalist Dorothee leaves Germany for San Francisco searching for her long-lost mother and some insights into the ailment known as love. Encounters with male impersonator Ramona, charming bohemian Dominique, and purveyor of lesbian erotica, Susie Sexpert, result in liberating adventures in sexual self-discovery. When Dorothee surfaces a little dazzled on the wilder shores of the city’s lesbian community, she has discovered her sexuality…and left her illusions of romance behind.
Screening with short films Fingers by Sandra Alland and 1987, Summer by Krissy Mahan. Fingers features a British Sign Language (BSL) poetry performance by Alison Smith about love, longing, and the sexiness of touch. 1987, Summer is about a a baby dyke who has landed in a gay resort town during the AIDS crisis. She plays softball, goes clubbing, sleeps with lots of women, and learns about who she is and what she wants.

Director of Fingers Sandra Alland will join us for a Q&A (BSL interpreted).

Ages 18+ only.
£5. To book tickets please use the button below. We have a number of free tickets to give away. If you can’t afford the ticket price for any reason, please email helen@sqiff.org or call 07735 273 245 to register for free entry.
BSL interpretation. Films screening with English subtitles for accessibility (short film Fingers also in BSL). The Glad Cafe is a wheelchair accessible venue: level access to building with a ramp to access the screening area and an accessible toilet. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0141 636 6119.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: Desert Hearts (Glasgow)
2015-11-03 19:00 - 21:00 | The Glad Cafe, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G41 2HG, United Kingdom
It’s 1959 and reserved professor of English Vivian travels from New York to Reno, Nevada, to take advantage of that state’s reputation for speedy divorce processing after separating from her husband. She stays at a local ranch guesthouse whilst waiting for her divorce to be finalised and meets Cay, an open and seemingly confident lesbian woman. Vivian and Cay hit it off but turbulent emotions and prejudice-induced insecurities threaten their burgeoning love, which is played out against a backdrop of dusky, rocky landscapes and country and western songs.
Screening with short Dyketactics by Barbara Hammer, a sensuous, bold look at women’s desire and sexuality from a seminal lesbian filmmaker.
Rated 18.
£5. To book tickets please use the button below. We have a number of free tickets to give away. If you can’t afford the ticket price for any reason, please email helen@sqiff.org or call 07735 273 245 to register for free entry.
Films screening with English subtitles for accessibility. The Glad Cafe is a wheelchair accessible venue: level access to building with a ramp to access the screening area and an accessible toilet. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0141 636 6119.
Part of SQIFF presents: Queer Women in Love, a season of films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Scottish Transgender Alliance Presents: Finding Phong
2015-09-27 20:45 - 22:20 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Phong negotiates her gender transition, dealing with her family’s doubts and the trials of seeking medical help from unsympathetic doctors. Using Phong’s video diaries to capture her own perspective and reactions, the film follows her from a small town in the centre of Vietnam where her family live to Hanoi, where she begins undergoing gender reassignment surgery.
Kindly sponsored by the Scottish Transgender Alliance.
Content note: depiction and discussion of transphobia.
Screening with English subtitles.
£5/£4 Conc/Free unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

SQIFF Closing: Do I Sound Gay?
2015-09-27 20:30 - 22:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Journalist David Thorpe confronts his anxiety over sounding gay by visiting voice therapists, interviewing friends, and talking to queer icons such as George Takei and Margaret Cho. Thorpe explores the cultural history of the gay voice in TV and film and tries to find perspective and examine his own internalised homophobia.
Preceded by the presentation of the Festival’s inaugural awards, the SQIFFies, to the winning filmmakers.
Content note: depiction and discussion of homophobia.
Screening with English subtitles. Awards ceremony will be BSL interpreted.
£5/£4 Conc/Free unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.
Watch trailer for Do I Sound Gay?

We Came To Sweat: The Legend Of Starlite
2015-09-27 19:00 - 20:20 | The Glad Cafe, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G41 2HG, United Kingdom
Founded in 1962, black gay bar the Starlite Lounge became a legendary pre- and post-Stonewall safe-haven for queer people of colour. Recently, the survival of this Brooklyn-based institution came under threat and a passionate community mobilized to try to save it. A timely look at the loss of LGBT and queer spaces to commercialism and gentrification.
Content note: discussion of homophobia and racism.
Screening with English subtitles.
£5/£4 Conc/Free unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.
Watch trailer for We Came To Sweat: The Legend of Starlite

Girltrash: All Night Long
2015-09-27 18:45 - 20:20 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
From the makers of lesbian classic D.E.B.S. comes a rock musical following five women through one epic night. Daisy and Tyler are two hapless rockers trying to make it to a Battle of the Bands on time, despite being derailed by Daisy’s sister, Colby, who’s exploring her newfound queer identity by chasing what she thinks is the girl of her dreams.
Screening with short film (A)Typical Couple.
Content note: non-graphic comedy violence.
Screening with English subtitles.
£5/£4 Conc/Free unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.
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Theorem
2015-09-27 18:30 - 20:20 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
An upper-class family in 1960s Milan is invaded by a mysterious stranger, who seduces and unsettles everyone in the household – maid, mother, father, daughter, and son. A sublime, surreal, and very queer look at sexuality, desire, and class by director Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Screening with short Your Eyes Flashing Solemnly With Hate by Mark Cousins about the working class man who was convicted of killing Pasolini in 1975.
Content note: discussion of murder; depiction of attempted suicide.
Screening with English subtitles.
£5/£4 Conc/Free unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.
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SQIFF Shorts: Queer Scotland
2015-09-27 16:30 - 18:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
We present a spectrum of styles and stories, from melodrama to animated collage, body hair to wrestling, and high camp to sobering allegory, with a selection of short films representing a breadth of filmmaking and LGBTI and queer contexts in Scotland.
We hope to be joined by a number of the filmmakers after the screening for a Q&A. Each film in this programme will be entered into an award for Best Scottish Short kindly sponsored by GMAC Film and voted for by the audience at the end of the screening.
Content note: depiction and discussion of homophobia and transphobia; discussion of suicide.
Screening with English subtitles. Post-film Q&A will be BSL interpreted.
£5/£4 Conc/Free unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Full Programme
Middle Man (5m)
Dir. Charlie Francis, Year: 2014
It’s Davie’s first week in the Type2Talk call centre and management has turned up for a surprise inspection. His attempts to impress put him on the spot when he is caught up in a lovers’ spat.
Catfood (3m)
Dir. Eveliina Honkanen and Radu Tanase, Year: 2013
What if we followed our instincts and enjoyed without thinking of social rules? An experimental film dealing with lust.
High Heels Aren’t Compulsory
Dir. Annabel Cooper, Year: 2015
It’s the first day of a new term for university lecturer Carolyn Mortimer and the first day of her new life as a trans* woman. Dressed to impress in her best make-up and high heels, Carolyn bravely faces the gauntlet of unsympathetic colleagues and students but when her boss puts her unexpectedly in the firing line of a particularly hostile first year class, her trademark balance begins to totter.
Versions (2m)
Dir. Matthew Kennedy, Year: 2015
A film about individual identities and family ties, Versions takes you through the biological and the unknown using collage and silhouettes.
Erskine (11m)
Dir. Nicole O’Reilly, Year: 2015
An art film created in Glasgow by local queer artists, Nicole O’Reilly and Shelby Lafferty. Erskine makes use of visual metaphor to portray the struggle of depression and suicidality that marginalised queer youth often suffer from. Inspired by Nicole’s own experiences as a transgender woman, along with the experiences of other transgender people within her community.
Holiday (4m)
Dir. Hayley Jane Dawson, Year: 2015
Before going on a family holiday, a woman faces the dilemma of whether or not to shave her legs to please others. Holiday explores the implications of traditional gender expectations of the body.
The Space Between (12m)
Dir. Radu Tanase, Year: 2014
An anxious man waits in his flat for someone he met online for a supposedly no strings sexual encounter.
Courtship Disorder (5m)
Dir. John Walter, Year: 2015
Courtship Disorder addresses cruising and sexual risk, in particular around the ‘cottage,’ a public toilet that is repurposed as a space of sex. Cruising for sex in real space has not disappeared despite the development of online cruising apps. ‘Courtship Disorder’ refers to a controversial term used by sexologists such as John Money to describe a spectrum of human behaviours, especially in men, including exhibitionism, voyeurism, toucherism, rubbing, and sexual assault.
On Your Feet, Woman! (8m)
Dir. Evi Tsiligaridou, Year: 2014
In a minimal enclosed setting, two women are wrestling, or play-fighting. An experimental, personal approach to the process of relating to one another within space and time through some twisting, bending, sliding, breathing, expanding, contracting… A call for openness and celebration of female physical expression.
LGBTI Community Groups (2m)
Dir. Paul Cameron, Lucinda Broadbent and Scott Cuthbertson, Year: 2015
A film about the variety and diversity of LGBTI community groups across Scotland.
Dusty Does Dallas (6m)
Dir. Lock Up Your Daughters, Year: 2014
An ex-porn star is jealous after hearing banging noises coming from her neighbour’s flat. When a postwoman, pizza delivery boy, and workman come to her door, she gets a little bit carried away…

Document Presents: Breaking Free
2015-09-27 16:15 - 17:50 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
In a follow-up to his film Purple Skies, activist Sridhar Rangayan’s documentary Breaking Free delves into the lives of LGBT people affected by India’s colonialist law Section 377. A personal journey recounting painful realities alongside offering hope in the shape of queer communities in India fighting for justice.
Screening with short film FU377 directed by Neelu Bhuman and in partnership with Document, Glasgow’s International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
Content note: sometimes graphic description of homophobia, transphobia, violence, and sexual assault.
Screening with English subtitles.
£5/£4 Conc/Free unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Workshop: Taking Space
2015-09-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A workshop led by queer sports activist Freya Gosnold exploring the need for safe spaces in which members of oppressed communities can organise, socialise, hold one another, and heal from the violences of abusive social systems such as racism, classism, ableism, heteronormativity, cisnormativity, and patriarchy. We will come together to talk about why we need this space, how we can claim it, and how to talk to people outside of oppressed groups about our needs and wishes.
This workshop is designed for people who have lived experience of one or more oppressions. Please bear this in mind when considering attendance.
BSL interpretion is available on request. Contact alice@sqiff.org if you require this.
For ages 15+. Free but ticketed. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Johnny Guitar
2015-09-27 14:15 - 15:55 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
On the outskirts of a wild west town, saloon owner Vienna is visited by mysterious stranger Johnny and they share a few awkward snogs whilst fighting the bad guys. Never mind the hetero love story, though! This movie is all about the sparklingly tense, violently erotic relationship between Vienna and her rival Emma. Add in bisexual director Nicholas Ray’s heavily choreographed but soaring and boundary-smashing style, and you have a film ripe for reclaiming as a queer classic.
Content note: 1950s Hollywood-style gun fights and death.
Screening with English subtitles.
£5/£4 Conc/Free unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.
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Africa In Motion Presents: Dakan
2015-09-27 14:00 - 15:55 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Manga and Sory are two young men passionately in love but their parents forbid them to see each other. They are forced to reconcile their love for their families with their seemingly invincible feelings for one another within a society filled with taboos.
With an introduction by Joseph a. Adesunloye, filmmaker and programmer of African cinema at the South by South screening programme at South London Gallery. This event is kindly sponsored by Africa in Motion.
Content note: depiction of homophobia.
£5/£4 Conc/Free unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Activity: SQIFF For Kids
2015-09-27 13:30 - 16:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A mega-fun kids takeover featuring a drop-in stop-motion animation workshop, a make-up and dressing-up corner, LGBTI and queer books, and arts and crafts.
BSL interpretion is available on request. Contact alice@sqiff.org if you require this.
The stop-motion workshop will be led by experienced tutor Kate Burton and is suitable for all levels. Activities will be tailored for people aged under-14 but older kids and adults may come along providing they behave themselves!
Free, non-ticketed.

Workshop: TransActing
2015-09-27 12:30 - 15:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A 3 hour workshop for trans and/or non-binary people giving an example session from the TransActing project, a collaboration between Gendered Intelligence, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and My Genderation. The first half hour will give a brief introduction and overview of the project, its key questions, and some examples of people’s experiences while participating. Followed by a 2 and a half hour acting master class led by one of the project tutors.
BSL interpretion is available on request. Contact alice@sqiff.org if you require this.
No experience of acting is required but people with experience are also welcome to attend. For ages 16+. Free but ticketed. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.
Kindly sponsored by the Scottish Transgender Alliance.

Free Family Film: Maleficent
2015-09-27 12:15 - 13:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Maleficent, a powerful fairy, lives in a magical forest realm bordering a corrupt human kingdom. As a child, she falls in love with Stefan but after he betrays her, they become enemies and Maleficent turns bitter and cranky. With the aid of Stefan’s daughter, Aurora, and gay sidekick, Diaval the raven, the angry fairy must learn to love again. A queer re-imagining of Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, starring Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning.
Content note: battle scenes; a few scary bits!
Free. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.
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SQIFF Shorts: I, You, Her
2015-09-27 12:00 - 13:40 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
What would a programme of specifically feminist queer short films look like? We put one together and found the result focusing on relationships – between mothers and daughters, lesbian and queer romantic and sexual partners, trans women and cisgender society, black women and white society, women and their BDSM desires, women and masculinity, and between queers facing each other down over an arm wrestling match!
Each film in this programme will be entered into an award kindly sponsored by the Centre for Gender and Feminist Studies at Stirling University and voted for by the audience at the end of the screening.
Content note: discussion of misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, and sexual violence.
Screening with English subtitles.
£5/£4 Conc/Free unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Full Programme
I, You, Her (18m)
Dir. Zeynep Oral, Country: Turkey, Year: 2012
Two women from Turkey, Demet and Selma, explore how to survive in a misogynist and conservative society whilst trans. They refuse to play by patriarchal rules and reflect on the power of religion, government, and dominant ideologies, which impact trans women in their country.
FU377 (5m)
Dir. Neelu Bhuman, Country: UK, Year: 2014
The dignity of queer people in India is under attack through Section 377, which the Supreme Court recently re-introduced, re-criminalising ‘gay sex.’ Meanwhile, an adorable Indian mother is totally down with gay sex and wheels out some choice lines for her heartbroken queer daughter in an effort to cheer her up.
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#BlackWomensLivesMatter (4m)
Dir. Xhercis Méndez, Country: USA, Year: 2014
The poetic affirmation of #BlackWomensLivesMatter shows us how to transform systemic devaluation.
Couple Time (6m)
Dir. Selina Robertson, Country: UK, Year: 2015
A suitcase full of Super 8 memories from Berlin.
Push Me (25m)
Dir. Tove Pills, Country: Sweden, Year: 2014
Siri feels frustrated about not daring to do what she wants and dreams about. Her fantasy is to dominate someone else sexually and her best friend Lee is trying to help her get rid of her fears and explore her desires.
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Female Masculinity Appreciation Society (12m)
Dir. Angie West and Jackie Nunns, Country: UK, Year: 2014
The Female Masculinity Appreciation Society is a gentlemen’s club of sorts. Follow Cookie and Foxy Ven in their quest to reach the arm-wrestling finals, discover the reason behind Rubyyy’s ginger moustache, and judge for yourself the winner of best Dapper wear. Filmed at Wotever World in London’s iconic queer pub, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.

Lock Up Your Daughters
2015-09-26 22:00 | Drygate Brewing Co, 85 Drygate, Glasgow, G4 0UT, United Kingdom
Previously long-running club night Lock Up Your Daughters don’t get back on the horse for just anyone but SQIFF has def piqued our interest. In celebration of its inaugural Festival, LUYD invites all you film fatales to a one-night stand you will not forget. Hell, stick around long enough and we might even make you breakfast.
Come and get hott on the dancefloor to all the nastyass tunes, courtesy of:
LOCK UP YOUR DJS
Kaleidoscope
TrysT
£6 / £4 before 11pm or with SQIFF ticket stub. Tickets for Lock Up Your Daughters are only available on the night at Drygate. If you are unemployed or seeking asylum and would like to put your name down to attend for free, please contact alice@sqiff.org.

Lock Up Your Mothers: Desperate Living
2015-09-26 21:00 - 22:35 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Neurotic urban housewife Peggy Gravel goes on the run with her maid Grizelda after the latter smothers Peggy’s husband Bosley to death. The two are arrested by a cross-dressing policeman, who gives them an ultimatum: go to jail or be exiled to Mortville, a squalid shantytown ruled by the evil Queen Carlotta and her treasonous daughter, Princess Coo-Coo. The pair choose Mortville and become embroiled in the attempts of the town’s motley crew of criminals, nudists, and sexual deviants to overthrow Carlotta. A comedy of the truly grotesque, this is one of John Waters’ filthiest!
Content note: we wouldn’t even know where to begin…
£5/£4 Conc/Free unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.
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