SQIFF

I Do?: Cloudburst (Edinburgh)
2015-12-16 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | 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.

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
