SQIFF

SQIFF Shorts: Projecting/Needs
2016-09-29 13:30 - 15:00 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A young man develops a crush whilst taking part in nighttime escapades involving photographic fantasies. German artist Markus shares thoughts about his online persona, a guy who pees in public, versus his real-life shyness. A British-Indian boy toys with his identity and daydreams about his best friend. Two Arab-American women express themselves through the power of the spoken word. Intellectual and would- be writer, Justin Otherman, is inspired after meeting the girl of his dreams, Shiosa Dorable. And a queer boy in high school creates a magic potion to get a jock to fall in love with him. Projecting/Needs explores the fine, captivating, and sometimes hilarious lines between reality and imagination, physical existence and make-believe.
ACCESS: Level access with Cinema plus accessible toilets all on ground floor (CCA). Films screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Hearing loop available. Films in a variety of languages.

£5 / £4 conc / Free for unemployed and asylum seekers. Festival pass £40 / £30 conc. All prices include booking fee.
To book tickets, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Lightrapping (22m)
Dir: Marcio Miranda Perez, Country: Brazil, Year: 2016
Gustavo is a photographer who captures the bodies of naked men in public spaces in Sao Paulo. One night, young Pedro follows him, curious and undecided about participating in the project.
The Character Inside Me (16m)
Dir: Andreas Boschmann, Country: Germany, Year: 2015
Markus is the city’s most popular public pisser. In his blog recording his exploits, Markus seems unrestrained and shameless but behind the digital facade we meet a self-conscious and shy man.
Projecting Needs (2m)
Dir: Violet Blank, Michael Logar, Country: Germany, Ireland, Year: 2016
A short parody of patriarchal values in indie cinema, including the manic pixie dream girl trope.
Floozy Suzy (25m)
Dir: Otavio Chamorro, Country: Brazil, Year: 2015
A hilarious-love-potion-gone-wrong tale where the aim is to win the love of the hottest guy at school.
Chariot Riders (5m)
Dir: Kate Jessop, Country: UK, Year: 2015
Ash is 13 and he doesn’t like anything Indian: the food, the clothes, the films. He does like spending time with his best friend Kuldeep, however.
I Say Dust (14m)
Dir: Darine Hotait, Country: USA, Year: 2015
Two Arab-American women in New York City fall in love, argue about home and identity, engage in a chess battle, and express themselves through the power of the spoken word.

SQIFF Schools: Pride
2016-09-29 13:00 - 15:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Summer, 1984 – Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. In London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. The Union seems embarrassed to receive their support but the activists are not deterred and set off in a minibus to a mining village in Wales to make their donation in person. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership.
Robert Kincaid, a member of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners who was present at events in 1984, will join us for a Q&A after the film.
Presented in association with LGBT Youth Scotland.
The event is suitable for Secondary 4-6. The film contains some strong language and sexual references. We are screening the film with English subtitles for accessibility. If anyone attending requires BSL interpretation for the introduction, please let us know when booking.
The event is free for all schools, youth groups, and colleges. To book a place, email helen@sqiff.org with the name of your school or group, the name of the teacher supervising the trip, the number of pupils you would like to bring, and whether there are any accessibility requirements for anyone attending.

Reaching Communities - LGBTQI+ Preview Day
2016-05-14 10:30 - 19:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Join us for a fantastic day of preview screenings of upcoming LGBTQI+ film releases. The event is open to both film programmers and LGBTQI+ groups who are interested in screening films.
For existing film groups, the Preview Day will be an opportunity to see new films prior to public release, from a selection of distributors you may not have encountered before. We will be screening four new titles that we hope will help inform your future programme.
If you are an LGBTQI+ group that is considering screening films, Cinema For All and SQIFF (Scottish Queer International Film Festival) will be on hand to give you the support and information you need to help establish your own community cinema/ film society, as well as offering tailored advice on inclusivity and accessibility. Information packs and case studies will also be provided on the day.
There will be networking opportunities throughout the day, offering opportunities to meet other film groups and share ideas. Tea, coffee and a light lunch will be available, with vegan options available. If you have any special dietary requirements or you would like more information, please get in touch with Peter Martin on peter@cinemaforall.org.uk or visit www.cinemaforall.org.uk
ACCESSIBILITY
The CCA has level access at the main entrance and to reach the Cinema space. Lunch will be served upstairs with access via a lift. There is an accessible toilet on the bottom floor nearby the Cinema. The films are in a variety of languages and all with English subtitles. The CCA also uses an induction loop system. If you have any further questions about access, please contact the CCA on 0141 352 4900 or email helen@sqiff.org.

SQIFF presents: Queers in the City
2016-05-13 19:00 - 20:30 | GMAC Film, 103 Trongate, Glasgow, Scotland, G1 5HD, United Kingdom
A selection of shorts looking at the relationship of LGBTQ+ people to cities. In depicting anonymous cruising, lamenting gentrification, showing cities as a backdrop to loneliness and personal pain, and creating comedy subversion of urban imagery, these films recognise the unique place of queers in the city space. Featuring work by both international and local artists plus a filmmaker Q&A. Open to ages 15+.
All films will be subtitled or captioned for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. We will have a BSL interpreter for the Q&A. GMAC Film is a wheelchair accessible venue. There is level access at the entrance and then a lift up to GMAC Film’s 5th Floor location, and an accessible toilet near the screening space. If you have any questions on accessibility, please contact helen@sqiff.org.
Pay What You Can proceeds donated to Parkhead Youth Project.

Queers at the Movies: the State of Queer Film Exhibition in Scotland
2016-04-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) hosts a fun and informal evening of open conversation around queer film; what it is, what it isn’t, what we’d like it to be and where the mainstream film industry is getting it all kinds of wrong… We want to know what the successes and failings of queer film events in Scotland are and how we can communicate with straight, cisgender film exhibitors and audiences.
We invite filmmakers and film lovers to submit their own short films or clips (max 10 minutes total) to be screened alongside the discussion in advance of the screening. Please send these to alice@sqiff.org. For accessibility reasons we will require all clips be subtitled or captioned. If you require advice on how to caption your film, please contact marcdavid@sqiff.org.
ACCESSIBILITY: The CCA is accessible for wheelchairs. We are using the CCA Club Room, for which access is via a lift with level access on the ground floor entrance. All films will screen with subtitles or captions to make them accessible for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing people. We will have BSL interpretation for the discussion element of the event. If you have any other access requests, let us know by posting on the page or contacting marcdavid@sqiff.org.
The event is free and un-ticketed. Just show up on the day. First come, first served.
This event is taking place as part of the 2016 Radical Film Network Festival and Unconference. To find out more about Radical Film Network, visit radicalfilmnetwork.com.

Tangerine plus Deep Breath
2016-02-18 19:00 - 22:00 | The Glad Cafe, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G41 2HG, United Kingdom
Tangerine (2015) starring Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor made waves for being one of the few feature films about trans women played by actual trans women actors as well as being shot entirely on an iPhone. Sin-Dee Rella, a sex worker who has just finished a 28-day prison stint, meets her friend Alexandra at a donut shop in Hollywood on Christmas Eve. Alexandra accidentally reveals that Sin-Dee’s boyfriend and pimp Chester has been cheating on her with a cisgender woman. Sin-Dee storms out to search the neighborhood for Chester and the woman.
Followed by short film Deep Breath, made as part of SQIFF 2015 and Scottish Transgender Alliance’s (STA) trans filmmaking course. The course participants will join us for a Q&A to talk about their experiences making the film. STA will also discuss its new Trans Friendly Venue Charter at the event.
Over 18s only.
Free. To book tickets please use the button below.
The Glad Cafe is accessible for wheelchairs. It has level access at the entrance with a ramp to access the screening space. There is an accessible toilet. The films will screen with English subtitles to make the event more accessible for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. We will have a BSL interpreter for the Q&A. We will convert The Glad Cafe’s toilets to gender neutral for the event.

Queer Women in Love: Stud Life (London)
2015-12-18 19:30 - 22:00 | Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Townhall Approach Road, Tottenham Green, London, N15 4RX, 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.
There will be a Q&A with director Campbell X after the screening hosted by artist and activist Chardine Taylor-Stone.
Screening with short films Janine, Fingers, and Goodnight My Love. Janine – the first film of legendary New Queer Cinema filmmaker Cheryl Dunye – is about a black lesbian woman’s relationship with a white, upper middle class girl when they were both in high school. Fingers by Sandra Alland features a British Sign Language (BSL) poetry performance by Alison Smith about love, longing, and the sexiness of touch. In Goodnight My Love, directed 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.
£7. To book tickets please use the button below.
BSL interpretation. Films screening with English subtitles for accessibility. The Bernie Grant Arts Centre is a wheelchair accessible venue with level access throughout and an accessible toilet. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 020 8365 5450.
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.

I Do?: The Kids Are All Right (Orkney)
2015-12-16 21:30 - 23:15 | The Phoenix Cinema, The Pickaquoy Centre, Muddisdale Rd, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1LR, United Kingdom
Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nic (Annette Bening) have been together for almost twenty years and have two teenage offspring named Joni and Laser, who were conceived via artificial insemination. Unbeknown to their mothers, Joni and Laser seek out their biological father, a restaurateur named Paul (Mark Ruffalo). Complications arise when the teens bond with Paul and invite him into their lives.
The screening marks the one year anniversary of the law in Scotland changing to allow two people of the same gender to marry.
Rated 15.
£6.90. To book tickets please use the button below or call The Phoenix Cinema box office on 01856 879 900.
The Phoenix Cinema is a wheelchair accessible venue. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 01856 879 900.
Part of SQIFF presents: I Do?, a season of films marking the one year anniversary of changes to the marriage law in Scotland. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

I Do?: Cloudburst (Inverness)
2015-12-16 20:30 - 22:10 | Eden Court, Bishops Road, Inverness, IV3 5SA, United Kingdom
Grouchy, foul-mouthed Stella and sweet, straight-talking Dotty are a lesbian couple from Maine who embark on a Thelma and Louise-style road trip to Nova Scotia to get married after Dotty is moved to a nursing home by her granddaughter. Adapted from the director’s own stage play, Cloudburst highlights marriage as a necessity for gay people’s survival in the face of poverty and homophobic relatives whilst also flirting with the idea of lifelong commitment as a tender and compelling feature of queer life.
The screening marks the one year anniversary of the law in Scotland changing to allow two people of the same gender to marry.
Rated 15.
£9 (£8/£5 concessions). 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: I Do?, a season of films marking the one year anniversary of changes to the marriage law in Scotland. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

I Do?: The Kids Are All Right (Glasgow)
2015-12-16 20:00 - 22:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nic (Annette Bening) have been together for almost twenty years and have two teenage offspring named Joni and Laser, who were conceived via artificial insemination. Unbeknown to their mothers, Joni and Laser seek out their biological father, a restaurateur named Paul (Mark Ruffalo). Complications arise when the teens bond with Paul and invite him into their lives.
The screening marks the one year anniversary of the law in Scotland changing to allow two people of the same gender to marry.
Rated 15.
£4 (£3 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.
Film screening with English subtitles for accessibility. The CCA is a wheelchair accessible venue: level access with an accessible toilet on same floor as screening space. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0141 352 4900.
Part of SQIFF presents: I Do?, a season of films marking the one year anniversary of changes to the marriage law in Scotland. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

I Do?: Cloudburst (Edinburgh)
2015-12-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Media Education, 183 Dalry Road, Edinburgh, EH11 2EB, United Kingdom
Grouchy, foul-mouthed Stella and sweet, straight-talking Dotty are a lesbian couple from Maine who embark on a Thelma and Louise-style road trip to Nova Scotia to get married after Dotty is moved to a nursing home by her granddaughter. Adapted from the director’s own stage play, Cloudburst highlights marriage as a necessity for gay people’s survival in the face of poverty and homophobic relatives whilst also flirting with the idea of lifelong commitment as a tender and compelling feature of queer life.
With an introduction by SQIFF’s Leanne Dawson. The screening marks the one year anniversary of the law in Scotland changing to allow two people of the same gender to marry.
Rated 15.
£5. 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 hope to screen the film with English subtitles for accessibility and and have a BSL interpreter for the introduction and will update on this soon.
Part of SQIFF presents: I Do?, a season of films marking the one year anniversary of changes to the marriage law in Scotland. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Bar Wotever Queer Women in Love Shorts (London)
2015-12-15 20:00 - 21:00 | The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Ln, London, SE11 5HY, United Kingdom
Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) in collaboration with Wotever DIY Film Festival and Bar Wotever presents a selection of shorts from SQIFF’s Queer Women in Love season, featuring films by and about lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. The line-up includes a range of styles and ideas relating to the theme of love from Barbara Hammer’s innovative 1970s lesbian experiment Dyketactics to Ami Nashimoto’s vegan, gluten-free date nightmare-comedy Dinner For Two, via queer filmmaking legend Cheryl Dunye’s very first film, Janine, and activist Krissy Mahan’s 1980s-set gay beach town dramedy, 1987, Summer.
With an introduction from SQIFF’s Helen Wright.
Ages 18+ only.
£5. Tickets available on the door.
Films screening with English subtitles and introduction BSL interpreted.
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.

I Do?: Homotopia plus shorts (Glasgow)
2015-12-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Yoshi falls in lust with someone he met in a park bathroom while reading Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks. Sadly, his new love interest is about to get gay married. So, Yoshi and his band of radical queers decide this wedding need not take place… Homotopia is a queer critique of the politics of ‘gay marriage’ and assimilation. Using a gritty, feminist shoot-and-run style, the film is heavily influenced by earlier political films Born in Flames and The Battle of Algiers and addresses issues of racism, colonialism, AIDS, and the role of the state.
Screening with a selection of other shorts and with a discussion on the problems associated with marriage and queerness hosted by AB Silvera with guests Etzali Hernandez and Decca Muldowney.
AB Silvera is a writer, performer and activist. Originally from Argentina, she spent over a decade in Ireland involved in feminist activism with a focus on LGBTQ women’s issues. The former editor of BoLT Magazine, Ireland’s only magazine for LGBTQ women, she now hosts 30km/s on Subcity Radio, a show that looks at the issues of the day from a sardonic, radical perspective. Etzali Hernandez is a Glasgow-based activist, working with LGBT Unity Scotland, and We Will Rise, an organisation campaigning to shut down Dungavel Detention Centre and end Detention across the UK. Decca Muldowney is a writer and researcher with an interest in feminist and queer politics, currently studying the contemporary Middle East.
Ages 15+ only.
£4 (£3 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.
Film screening with English subtitles for accessibility. Post-screening discussion BSL interpreted. The CCA is a wheelchair accessible venue: level access with an accessible toilet on same floor as screening space. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0141 352 4900.
Part of SQIFF presents: I Do?, a season of films marking the one year anniversary of changes to the marriage law in Scotland. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

I Do?: Fire (Glasgow)
2015-12-13 20:00 - 21:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Sita (Nandita Das) and Radha (Shabana Azmi) are both stuck in loveless marriages. While Sita is trapped in an arranged relationship with her cruel and unfaithful husband, Jatin, Radha is married to his brother, Ashok, who is strongly religious and believes in suppressing sexual desire. As the two women bond over their shared situation, they grow closer and their friendship develops into something deeper than they anticipated. A meditation on misogyny in marriage and the radical potential of queer love.
Rated 15.
£4 (£3 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.
Film screening with English subtitles for accessibility. The CCA is a wheelchair accessible venue: level access with an accessible toilet on same floor as screening space. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0141 352 4900.
Part of SQIFF presents: I Do?, a season of films marking the one year anniversary of changes to the marriage law in Scotland. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: The Wedding Song (London)
2015-12-13 13:00 - 15:00 | Picturehouse Central, Corner of Great Windmill Street and Shaftesbury Avenue, Piccadilly, London, W1D 7DH, 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.
Simran Hans, freelance writer and programmer/producer of The Bechdel Test Fest, will give an introduction to the film.
Rated 15.
£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: Bound (Glasgow)
2015-12-10 19:00 - 21:30 | Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Centre, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, 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 trans woman Lana Wachowski and her brother Andy, Bound employed author and performer Susie Sexpert to choreograph its steamy sex scenes, and drew inspiration from classical Hollywood director Billy Wilder in its noir crime thriller approach to queer love.
Screening with short film Netflix & Chips, made by collective Lock Up Your Daughters as part of the Glasgow 48 Hour Film Project. Star of Netflix & Chips, trans filmmaker, and blogger Kate Adair will join us for a Q&A. Plus we’ll have an intro to Bound by Glasgow University Film Studies lecturer Dr Allison Macleod.
Rated 18.
Entry by donation (pay what you can afford). Minimum £1 donation when booking online or pay any amount on the door. To book tickets please use the button below.
Films screening with subtitles for accessibility. Q&A BSL interpreted. The Andrew Stewart Cinema is wheelchair accessible. To reserve a place for a wheelchair, please contact SQIFF via helen@sqiff.org or on 07735 273 245.
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 (Inverness)
2015-12-09 20:15 - 21:55 | Eden Court, Bishops Road, Inverness, IV3 5SA, 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.
£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: Something Must Break (Dundee)
2015-12-07 18:00 - 21:00 | Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4HN, United Kingdom
Shy Sebastian is in the process of working out their gender identity when they meet and fall for rebellious Andreas. Trans-identifying director Ester Martin Bergsmark’s (She Male Snails) first fictional feature is a visually stunning and emotionally intense look at romance and eroticism through the eyes of a young queer person.
Screening with short films Fingers and Dinner For Two. Fingers by Sandra Alland features a British Sign Language (BSL) poetry performance by Alison Smith about love, longing, and the sexiness of touch. Dinner For Two by Ami Nashimoto is a super cute musical in which a woman stresses over preparing something suitable and vaguely edible for her vegan, gluten-free-diet date.
Presented together with Dundee University Feminist Society. We are pleased Fingers‘ director Sandra Alland and writer and star Alison Smith will join us for a Q&A.
Rated 18.
Content note: depiction of transphobia, including slightly graphic transphobic violence; ambiguous scenes of sexual humiliation.

Free. Tickets only available on the door. Room 3G02 within Dalhousie Building.
BSL interpretation. Something Must Break is in Swedish with English subtitles. Fingers is in BSL with English subtitles and Dinner For Two will also screen with English subtitles.
Dalhousie Building is a wheelchair accessible venue. Entry to the building is via a wheelchair access lift with a lift up to the third floor where the screening takes place. There is an accessible toilet near the screening area. To book a place for a wheelchair or for any further access info, please contact Helen on 07735 273 245 or 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.

I Do?: The Lodger (Glasgow)
2015-12-06 20:00 - 21:15 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
The Lodger is an early film from Alfred Hitchcock, in which the notoriously queer-minded filmmaker gives a subversive critique of married coupledom – a trope which would infuse his later US work. A serial killer known as ‘The Avenger’ is loose in London and a mysterious lodger, played by Ivor Novello, becomes a suspect. His landlords’ daughter, Daisy, is courting a policeman, Joe, but is drawn to the enigmatic stranger. Daisy’s doubts about marrying Joe are conveyed through typical Hitchcock metaphors such as handcuffs whilst her attraction to Novello’s very queer character serves as a comment on the expansiveness of desire beyond heteronormative relationships.
Rated PG.
£4 (£3 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.
Film silent with intertitles. The CCA is a wheelchair accessible venue: level access with an accessible toilet on same floor as screening space. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0141 352 4900.
Part of SQIFF presents: I Do?, a season of films marking the one year anniversary of changes to the marriage law in Scotland. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: Nina's Heavenly Delights (Glasgow)
2015-12-04 19:00 - 20:40 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
When young Glaswegian cook Nina returns home for her father’s funeral after three years living in London, she begins a romantic relationship with Lisa, an old childhood friend who now owns half of Nina’s late dad’s Indian restaurant, The New Taj. Together, the two lovers seek to save the restaurant from closing by conspiring to defend the national ‘Best in the West Curry Competition’ title. Nina’s mother and brother are trying to sell the Taj, however, to fellow restaurateur Raj, whose chef son Sanjay was previously left at the altar by Nina. Tensions mount as the competition date nears and the women’s passionate and sometimes stormy affair threatens to derail everything.
Screening with short Dinner For Two by Ami Nashimoto. A super cute musical in which a woman stresses over preparing something suitable and vaguely edible for her vegan, gluten-free-diet date.
Rated PG.
£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. CCA is a wheelchair accessible venue: level access for the ground floor Cinema with an accessible toilet. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0141 352 4900.
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 (Newcastle)
2015-12-03 20:00 - 22:00 | Tyneside Cinema, 10 Pilgrim St, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6QG, 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.
Followed by a discussion with Dr Julie Scanlon, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Gender and Sexuality, and Dr Jacky Collins, Senior Lecturer in Film and TV, both from Gendered Subjects.
Rated 15.
£6 (£5 concessions). To book tickets visit Tyneside Cinema box office in person or call 0845 217 9909.
Tyneside Cinema is accessible for wheelchairs. Each of the Tyneside’s Cinema’s screens have power assisted doors and dedicated spaces for wheelchair users. If you specifically require tickets for the wheelchair spaces available in our auditoria, you can contact Box Office on 0845 217 9909. There is high contrast signage throughout the building, complete with braille. Tyneside also uses the Phonic infrared headset system to provide amplified sound in their screens. Headsets are available for this service from the Box Office on the ground floor and Tyneside Bar on the third floor.
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 Plusnetbfi.org.uk/love.

I Do?: Cloudburst (Glasgow)
2015-12-03 19:00 - 20:40 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Grouchy, foul-mouthed Stella and sweet, straight-talking Dotty are a lesbian couple from Maine who embark on a Thelma and Louise-style road trip to Nova Scotia to get married after Dotty is moved to a nursing home by her granddaughter. Adapted from the director’s own stage play, Cloudburst highlights marriage as a necessity for gay people’s survival in the face of poverty and homophobic relatives whilst also flirting with the idea of lifelong commitment as a tender and compelling feature of queer life.
Ages 15+ only.
£4 (£3 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.
Film screening with English subtitles for accessibility. The CCA is a wheelchair accessible venue: level access with an accessible toilet on same floor as screening space. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0141 352 4900.
Part of SQIFF presents: I Do?, a season of films marking the one year anniversary of changes to the marriage law in Scotland. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

Queer Women in Love: Virgin Machine (Edinburgh)
2015-12-02 18:30 - 20:30 | Gay Men’s Health, 10 Union Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LU, United Kingdom
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 as part of Edinburgh Pride Winter Festival 2015. Followed by a Skype Q&A with director Monika Treut.

For ages 15+.
£6. Tickets only available on the door.
Gay Men’s Health is unfortunately not a wheelchair accessible venue as there are stairs to the screening space. Big apologies for this.
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 (Dundee)
2015-12-01 18:30 - 20:00 | 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.
