SQIFF

Queer Horror: A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
2016-10-02 20:00 - 21:40 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Described as ‘The Gayest Horror Movie Ever Made’, Freddy’s Revenge is the first of many sequels to Wes Craven’s 1984 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. Maligned for being cheap trash on its release, the second film in the franchise has achieved cult status for its gloriously campy queer subtext. Virginal teenager, Jesse, feels he has something inside him that needs to ‘come out,’ which turns out, of course, to be Freddy Krueger. Beyond this unsubtle, central metaphor, Jesse has a suspiciously close relationship with his male friend, a sadomasochistic gym teacher who literally gets stripped and whipped, and a supposed love interest who looks like Meryl Streep.
Introduced by Jordan Phillips, queer horror maestro at Queen Margaret University.
ACCESS: Level access with Cinema plus accessible toilets all on ground floor (CCA). Film screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Hearing loop available. BSL interpretation for introduction. English language film.

£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.

Sebastiane
2016-10-02 19:30 - 21:00 | Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB, United Kingdom
Set in an outpost of the Roman Empire in the year 303, Derek Jarman’s first feature is now a piece of history itself, celebrating its 40th anniversary. His most enduringly (and endearingly) erotic work, it queers the Christian myth of St Sebastiane, telling the story of the famous soldier condemned for his beliefs and paci sm and stripped of his military rank – and eventually everything else.
Introduced by curator and writer Marc David Jacobs.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance and to reach Cinema 3 at the GFT. Accessible toilet next to the Cinema. Film in Latin with English subtitles. Hearing loop available. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation for the introduction, please email info@sqiff.org at least one week in advance.

£5.50 all tickets. Festival pass £40 / £30 conc.
To book tickets, please use the button below or call GFT Box Office on 0141 332 6535

SQIFF Shorts: Silent Laughs
2016-10-02 18:45 - 20:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A selection of short films by and/or about Deaf LGBTQ+ people, an often marginalised identity within queer culture. Documentaries, slapstick, and experimental self-reflection feature in this eclectic mix of work. Star of new Scottish short Silent Laughs, Leah Kalaitzi, will perform a comedy routine and there will be a panel discussion with several of the filmmakers and other guests on Deaf LGBTQ+ representation and experiences.
With thanks to Sandra Alland.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets on first floor (CCA). Films screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Hearing loop available. BSL-English interpretation for event. Films in BSL, ASL, and English language.

£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.

Silent Laughs (11m)
Dir: Natalia Kouneli, Year: 2016
A stand-up comedienne performs in sign language, fulfilling her dream to make people laugh as well as bringing Deaf Culture to mainstream audiences.
Amar: Deaf is an Identity (4m)
Dir: David Ng, Jen Sungshine, Year: 2016
Amar shares his journey as a queer South Asian activist, and explains how it intersects with his identity and culture as a Deaf person.
Passengers (5m)
Dir: Dickie Hearts, Year: 2015
A cab driver puts up with a series of irksome hearing passengers before picking up a cute guy more on his wavelength.
I’m Not Your Inspiration 2: ALISON SMITH (9m)
Dir: Sandra Alland, Year: 2014
Deaf sign poet, Alison Smith, talks about her BSL poetry, growing up as a Scottish Fairground Traveller, and some issues facing queer D/deaf and disabled artists.

SEX & The Silver Gays
2016-10-02 18:15 - 19:25 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
SEX & The Silver Gays tells the idiosyncratic story of a randy New York chapter of national senior gay men’s organisation, the Prime Timers. Amidst a flurry of social activities, members participate in monthly sex parties. These octogenarian orgiasts invite us to their intimate gathering, illustrating explicitly their carnal activities and explaining frankly and inspiringly who they are.
Presented in association with Luminate: Scotland’s creative ageing festival.
ACCESS: Level access with Cinema plus accessible toilets all on ground floor (CCA). Film screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Hearing loop available. Film in English language.

£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.

SQIFF Workshop: Green New World
2016-10-02 16:30 - 18:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
In this interactive ‘what-if ’ scenario-based workshop we imagine filmmaking on a planet with extremely limited resources. Through the formulation of ‘solutions’ to this scenario, participants will create the 10 Commandments of ‘SAFE’: Sustainable Arts and Filmmaking Ethics. These will be published and distributed nationwide across filmmaking groups and collectives and will provide the blueprint for the Sustainable Filmmaking Revolution!
Hosted by award-winning filmmaker and artist Lucy Holmes-Elliott.
ACCESS: Access via lift to Club Room on third floor. Accessible toilet next to the room. Any clips shown screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation for the workshop, please email info@sqiff.org at least one week in advance.
Free but ticketed.
To book tickets, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Queer Horror: The Haunting
2016-10-02 16:00 - 17:50 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Dr. John Markway, an anthropologist with an interest in psychic phenomena, takes two specially selected women to Hill House, a reportedly haunted mansion. Eleanor, a lonely, eccentric woman with a supernatural event in her past, and the bold (and all but openly lesbian) Theodora, who has ESP, join John and the mansion’s heir, cynical Luke. They are immediately overwhelmed by strange sounds and events, and Eleanor comes to believe the house is alive and speaking directly to her. The Haunting is a pretty solid argument for the underlying queerness of the Hollywood horror movie aesthetic.
Screening with short film Cheat (2 mins). Followed by a discussion on queer horror hosted by Jordan Phillips with guest Dr. Darren Elliott-Smith, researcher and blogger on queerness, gender, and the body in horror film and television.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets on first floor (CCA). Films screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. BSL interpretation for discussion. Film in English language.

£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.

The Surface Tension Trilogy
2016-10-02 15:30 - 16:50 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
From activist and painter Frida Kahlo to filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to Hitler’s lover Eva Braun – Liz Rosenfeld tells a trio of queer histories that may or may not have actually happened. Making no attempts to disguise the fact that, despite taking place in 1924, 1933 and 1977, the films were clearly made in modern-day Berlin, Rosenfeld turns the way we normally look at history on its head.
Director Liz Rosenfeld will join us for a Q&A after the screening. Presented in partnership with Goethe Institut Glasgow.
ACCESS: Level access with Cinema plus accessible toilets all on ground floor (CCA). Films mostly in German with English subtitles with some parts in English language with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Hearing loop available. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation for the Q&A, please email info@sqiff.org at least one week in advance.

£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.

SQIFF Shorts: Queer Scotland II
2016-10-02 13:30 - 15:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
We present another selection of LGBTQ+ work made in Scotland, representing a variety of styles, subject matter, and identities. A non-conforming eight year old challenges gender expectations, childhood trauma is explored by a trans woman, wedding day fears and fantasies are divulged across a generation, and a bisexual daughter finds solidarity with her trans parent amongst the stories told in this collection.
We hope to be joined by a number of the filmmakers for a Q&A. There will be a prize for Best Scottish Short with the winner gaining automatic nomination to Iris Prize Festival‘s 2017 Best British Short award and a festival pass for Glasgow Short Film Festival 2017.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets on first floor (CCA). Films screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. BSL interpretation for Q&A. Most films in English language with some experimental work with limited dialogue.

£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.

Take Your Partners (11 mins)
Dir: Siri Rodnes, Year: 2015
A non-conforming 8-year-old challenges gender expectations when forced to make an Easter Bonnet with the girls.
Women in Vaiven (12m)
Dir: Cecilia Pérez-Homar, Year: 2015
On the morning of her wedding in Puerto Rico, Zoe Taína struggles to fit into her grandmother’s old wedding dress, when suddenly her dead mother shows up to wish her luck.
Where We Are Now (9m)
Dir: Lucie Rachel, Year: 2016
A personal insight into the changing relationship between a young woman and her transgender parent.
Stuck (11m)
Dir: Ania Urbanowska, Year: 2013
Have you ever been in relationship where you can’t see its problems…?
Netflix & Chips (6m)
Dir: Lock Up Your Daughters, Year: 2015
A woman who works in a chip shop has a hot date but can’t get her job off her mind.
Before Your Very Eyes (6m)
Dir: Margot Imlah, Year: 2016
The Great Katarin is about to pull off their biggest trick—travelling through time. But their partner, Martha, doesn’t want them to leave.
Let Me Be Brave (11m)
Dir: Lucy Holmes-Elliott, Year: 2016
A documentary showing the importance of sport in the lives of transgender people.
Tape (15m)
Dir: Nicole O’Reilly, Year: 2016
An experimental short in which a trans woman discovers relics from her childhood and has flashbacks to the source of unhappy times.
Silent Laughs (11m)
Dir: Natalia Kouneli, Year: 2016
A Deaf stand-up comedienne performs in sign language fulfilling her dream to make people laugh as well as bringing Deaf Culture to mainstream audiences.
Bathroom Break (2m)
Dir: Cecilia Pérez-Homar, Year: 2015
During a private moment in the bathroom of his office, Westley considers his deeper desires.

Women and the Word: The Revival
2016-10-02 13:15 - 14:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A joyful, empowering documentary charting the course of seven LGBT women of colour in a minivan on the road across America with THE REVIVAL, a slam style poetry tour. Both tour and film were created with the aim of building a literary arts movement among women who are LGBT and their allies. We get to know T’ai Freedom Ford, Be Steadwell, Jonquille “Solsis” Rice, Elizah Turner, and THE REVIVAL’s founder and executive producer, Jade Foster, as the women bond over the course of the nine-day tour.
ACCESS: Level access with Cinema plus accessible toilets all on ground floor (CCA). Film screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Hearing loop available. Film in English language.

£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.

SQIFF Family Film: Inside Out
2016-10-02 12:00 - 13:45 | Platform, The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Do you ever look at someone and wonder what is going on inside their head? Inside Out ventures inside the mind to find out. Platform Glasgow is proud to present a FREE screening of Disney Pixar’s original new film as part of this year’s Scottish Queer International Film Festival.
Based in Headquarters, the control center inside 11-year-old Riley’s mind, five Emotions are hard at work, led by lighthearted optimist Joy (voice of Amy Poehler), whose mission is to make sure Riley stays happy. Fear (voice of Bill Hader) heads up safety, Anger (voice of Lewis Black) ensures all is fair and Disgust (voice of Mindy Kaling) prevents Riley from getting poisoned—both physically and socially. Sadness (voice of Phyllis Smith) isn’t exactly sure what her role is, and frankly, neither is anyone else.
When Riley’s family relocates to a scary new city, the Emotions are on the job, eager to help guide her through the difficult transition. But when Joy and Sadness are inadvertently swept into the far reaches of Riley’s mind—taking some of her core memories with them—Fear, Anger and Disgust are left reluctantly in charge. Joy and Sadness must venture through unfamiliar places—Long Term Memory, Imagination Land, Abstract Thought and Dream Productions—in a desperate effort to get back to Headquarters, and Riley. Pixar at its heart-tugging, joyous best.
Why not make it a real trip out by checking out Platform’s Art Exhibitions, Performance Programme as well as the public Library and Swimming Pool.
ACCESS: Level access, ramps, and accessible toilets (Platform). Films screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Film in English language.

FREE but ticketed. Book tickets via the link below to be guaranteed a space.

Party: Lock Up Your Daughters vs TRYST
2016-10-01 22:00 - 2016-10-02 01:00 | Kinning Park Complex, 40 Cornwall Street, Glasgow, G41 1AQ, United Kingdom
Local queer heroes LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS are teaming up with TRYST to bring you a mouthful of tasty beats for an extra special SQIFF 2016 dance party. Dig out your Cha Cha heels and prepare for a queerly divine night as the LUYD and TRYST resident DJs take to the decks to keep you aurally and otherwise stimulated.
ACCESS: Several steps at entrance with a ramp and then level access to reach the party space with accessible toilets next to it (Kinning Park Complex). DJs only (no performances).

Tickets £5 / £4 with SQIFF ticket stub / free for unemployed and asylum seekers. Tickets available on the door.

Queer Horror: Fright Night
2016-10-01 20:45 - 22:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Nobody believes teenage horror-film addict Charley Brewster when he becomes convinced his new neighbours are vampires. But with the evidence stacking up, Charley enlists the help of washed-up television vampire killer Peter Vincent to destroy the suburban bloodsuckers. Basically posing as a posh homosexual couple, these vamps have as much an appetite for fashion and antiques as they do for virginal flesh. Meanwhile Charley becomes so obsessed with the sexy stranger next door, his poor girlfriend doesn’t get a look in.
Introduced by Jordan Phillips, queer horror maestro at Queen Margaret University.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets on first floor (CCA). Film screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. BSL interpretation for introduction. Film in English language.

£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.

When We Are Together We Can Be Everywhere
2016-10-01 20:15 - 21:40 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
When Marit Östberg finally had enough time to edit the footage she shot in 2011, it was already four years old. And, by then, her idea of a mockumentary on how to (and how not to) make queer porn had quietly changed into something different: a nostalgic look at nostalgia and a way to rewrite her own history. Now, she could look back at the idealism of the community she had lived and worked in, but from the perspective of knowing how things had turned out. The result became something beautiful and thoughtful and funny and sad – and still very, very hot. A film for sex-positive dreamers everywhere.
We’re pleased star Liz Rosenfeld will join us for a Q&A after the screening. Presented in partnership with Goethe Institut Glasgow.
ACCESS: Level access with Cinema plus accessible toilets all on ground floor (CCA). Film mostly in English language screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Some German language segments throughout. Hearing loop available. BSL interpretation for Q&A.
£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.

Web Series Showcase
2016-10-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Something is happening in the queer film sphere… With increased funding challenges the LGBTQ+ community has had to innovate to discover new ways to get queer voices out there. Enter the WEB SERIES! This session presents a selection of the best and most original talent emerging from this independent medium and showcases the range and diversity of stories the format can accommodate. Highlights include the premiere of BBC The Social’s new series They, shot in Glasgow, plus episodes of the Emmy-nominated Her Story, Brittani Nichols’ and Hannah Hart’s Words With Girls and a live Q&A with Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, director and producer of London-set series Boxx.
Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor will also be hosting a workshop during the Festival on creating web series.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets on first floor (CCA). Web series episodes screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. BSL interpretation for event. All web series episodes in English language.

£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.

Queer Horror: Otto; or Up with Dead People
2016-10-01 17:00 - 19:05 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Transgressive filmmaker Bruce LaBruce gave the zombie genre a distinctive update with Otto, set in a not-too-distant future in which the undead have evolved the ability to speak and reason, yet are still persecuted by the living. Sensitive Otto wanders the streets of Berlin before being recruited by eccentric filmmaker Medea Yarn for her zombie insurrection “magnum corpus” Up with Dead People. Whilst the eponymous hero struggles with unliving in the world, LaBruce’s film develops into a savagely irreverent critique of consumer culture and a moving parable for being different.
Screening with short Sauna the Dead: A Fairy Tale (21 mins). Introduced by Jordan Phillips, queer horror maestro at Queen Margaret University.
Content note: hardcore zombie sex and eating of flesh.
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. BSL interpretation for introduction. Films in English language with long scenes with no dialogue.

£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.

Intersexion
2016-10-01 16:30 - 17:50 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Is it a boy? Is it a girl? What if it’s neither? This award-winning doc explores the world of intersex people – those born with any one of a large number of variations that make their gender ambiguous according to traditional binary ideals. Presenter Mani Bruce Mitchell, one of New Zealand’s first out intersex people, and director Grant Lahood locate interviewees willing to share their experiences. They discuss living in a society with a restricted view of gender which, at best, has made them all but invisible and, at worst, has subjected many to damaging ‘corrective’ surgery.
Followed by a discussion with Joe Holliday from the UK’s first Intersex NGO Intersex UK and film critic and activist Jennie Kermode.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets on first floor (CCA). Film screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. BSL interpretation for discussion. Audio description available. Film in English language.

£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.

Workshop: Web Series with Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor SOLD OUT
2016-10-01 16:00 - 18:00 | The Art School, 20 Scott Street, Glasgow, G3 6PE, United Kingdom
This event is now SOLD OUT.
Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor is an award-winning filmmaker and director and producer of recent UK web series, Boxx, following two black diasporan, London-based trans artists as they create a documentary about their lives. Participants are invited to submit their ideas for – or work-in-progress – web series before the session. Several will then be chosen for workshopping with topics covered including how best to tell a story in web format, the most cost effective way to shoot a web series, and the journey from script to final product.
Joy will also take part in a Q&A as part of our Web Series Showcase.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance with a lift up to Project Space 2 on the 2nd floor where workshop is being held (The Art School). Accessible toilets on ground and third floors via lifts. Any clips shown screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation for the workshop, please email info@sqiff.org at least one week in advance.
Free but ticketed. To book tickets, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

SQIFF Shorts: Specimen
2016-10-01 14:30 - 15:40 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Contemporary shorts to accompany the horror classics in our programme utilising gruesome imagery and horror movie tropes to explore LGBTQ+ issues. A terrified man deals with a dead body (that of his erstwhile lover) in his flat, blood oozes and old Taiwanese film clips flicker in surreal cinematic experiments, trippy drug-induced hallucinations lead a gay guy to imagine he is a sexual specimen in a world of foliage come alive, a friendly local on a London council estate is hiding a dark secret, and homophobic thugs in Russia get a surprise when they pick on the wrong queer.
Content note: disturbing scenes of violence.
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 unemployed and asylum seekers / Festival Pass £40 / £30 conc. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Fu Guo (Floating Melon) (19m)
Dir: Xu Xiaoxi, Roberto F. Canuto, Country: China, Spain, Year: 2015
Xiao has spent the afternoon in bed with a guy who is now lying dead in his apartment from a drugs overdose. Terrified of the authorities finding out, he asks his friends to help clean up the mess.
Oğlan (The Boy) (7m)
Dir: Eyup Büyükkelleci, Country: Turkey, Year: 2015
A mother kills her own son for being gay. Flashbacks see him at university, in a cafeteria, and making love in a carwash whilst the wound from his murder is constantly visible.
Yi-Ren (the person of whom I think) (14m)
Dir: Tzuan Wu, Country: Taiwan, Year: 2015
A love letter in collage style, consisting of found footage and a queer reading of the work of Kang-Chien Chui, screenwriter of classic East Asian movies such as The Bells of Death and Twin Blades of Doom.
Specimen (3m)
Dir: Luc Mollinger, Country: UK, Year: 2015
A man makes his way into a surreal human jungle where he trips out on drugs and sexual excess.
Beyond Plain Sight (13m)
Dir: Joseph A. Adesunloye, Country: UK, Year: 2014
Ryan is young, charming, friendly, helpful, and deeply popular in his South London community. He seems like just an average guy. Only there’s nothing average about Ryan.
PYOTR495 (15m)
Dir: Blake Mawson, Country: Canada, Year: 2016
Set in present-day Moscow, 16-year-old Pyotr is baited by an ultranationalist group known for their violent abductions and attacks bolstered by Russia’s LGBT propaganda law, but Pyotr has a dangerous secret his attackers haven’t accounted for.

SQIFF Shorts: Trans Pride
2016-10-01 14:15 - 15:50 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Trans representation in mainstream cinema remains poor but happily there’s a rich output of short filmmaking with authentic takes on trans, non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit identities. We showcase dramas, experimental documentaries, and animation in this selection covering themes including coming out to parents, dealing with mental health problems, finding love, and the specifics of trans and two-spirit identities for people of colour and indigenous people.
Content note: brief depiction of transphobic violence and mention of suicidal feelings.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets on first floor (CCA). Films screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Most films in English language.

£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.

Ryans (17m)
Dir: Natalie Heltzel, Rain Valdez, Country: USA, Year: 2016
A trans woman goes on a blind date with a man but lingering similarities to an ex get in the way.
Regalia: Pride in Two Spirits (5m)
Dir: David Ng, Jen Sungshine, Country: USA, Year: 2016
The story of Duane and his journey as someone who identifies as “Two Spirit” – a queer Aboriginal person.
Nasser (19m)
Dir: Melissa Martens, Country: Netherlands, Year: 2015
When Nasser gets their period for the first time, their mother decides that it’s time they start acting “like a girl.”
Dawn (13m)
Dir: Jake Graf, Country: UK, Year: 2016
A trans woman running from an abusive man makes a captivating new acquaintance whilst waiting for a bus.
The Race (4m)
Dir: Soyoon Kim, Country: South Korea, Year: 2015
Tiny, genderless figurines dance to J S Bach as their environment gives way and glitches out.
Love Letter / Prēma Lēkha (5m)
Dir: Neelu Bhuman, Country: UK, Year: 2015
An abstract film exploring gender and race through the power of erotics and love.
Alexa To Exa (17m)
Dir: Exa Zim, Christian Marsh, Country: USA, Year: 2015
A very personal documentary film about about transcending assigned identity

Braw Butches
2016-10-01 13:15 - 15:30 | Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP, United Kingdom
Where are all the butches? What portrayals of lesbianism are acceptable and who is erased? Tender, funny, and thought-provoking, Gender Troubles: The Butches explores these questions through a series of interviews and testimonials with butch-identifying women, looking at the strange dichotomy of being both hypervisible in everyday life and invisible when it comes to media representation. Director Lisa Plourde’s documentary shows us there’s a lot more to butch identity than plaid shirts and tool belts.
Screening alongside a short or two and featuring a discussion on butch and masculine queer identities with poet and activist Jo Johnson, filmmaker and spoken word artist Azara Meghie, and My Genderation’s Naomhán O’Connor.
ACCESS: Slope up towards door with a ramp at entrance and then level access and accessible toilet on ground floor where Cinema space is (Glasgow Women’s Library). Films screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Hearing loop available. BSL interpretation for discussion. All films in English language.

£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 Glasgow Women’s Library on 0141 550 2267.

BOOTWMN (11m)
Dir: Paige Gratland, Sam McWilliams, Country: USA/Canada, Year: 2015
Deana McGuffin is a third generation New Mexico boot maker, hand-crafting wearable pieces of art. When she is approached by a Canadian artist and a San Franciscan tattooer to create a gay themed cowboy boot, a story unravels of a unique collaboration that takes them to the heart of cowboy country in Northern Texas.
Boi Oh Boi (10m)
Dir: Thirza Cuthand, Country: Canada, Year: 2012
Thirza Cuthand reflects on her fluctuation between a feminine and a masculine gender, including reflections on mental health and colonisation.
I am a Woman (3m)
Dir: Kay Fi’ain, Azara Meghie, Country: UK, Year: 2016
In I am a Woman, break dancer and spoken word artist Azara Meghie demands to be accepted as a woman, despite presenting in what is considered a masculine manner.

Tchindas
2016-10-01 12:15 - 13:50 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Tchinda is one of the most beloved women on Cape Verde, especially after coming out as trans in a local newspaper in 1998. Since then, her name has become the term used by locals to refer to queer Cape Verdeans. In the month leading up to Carnival, the slow-paced atmosphere of the island transforms into a frenzied hustle as thousands flock to the streets. Locals join forces to create something beautiful as the entire island becomes a “little Brazil.” The camera closely follows Tchinda and her cohorts – an engaging, closely knit group of trans women and gay men – as they take the lead in preparing their neighbourhood for the festivities.
Presented in partnership with Africa in Motion.
ACCESS: Level access with Cinema plus accessible toilets all on ground floor (CCA). Film in Cape Verdean creole with English subtitles. Hearing loop available.

£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.

Party: Bar Wotever
2016-09-30 23:00 - 2016-10-01 03:00 | The Art School, 20 Scott Street, Glasgow, G3 6PE, United Kingdom
Purveyors of all things queer in Londontown, Bar Wotever hits Glasgow for a special collaboration with SQIFF!! Bringing talent and fabulousness from their long-running community-focused cabaret night to perform alongside hott local acts, legendary queer club host, Ingo Cando, will oversee proceedings. Featuring top drag kings Sammy Silver and Benjamin Butch, plus Laurie Brown, Sgàire Wood, DJ Jungle Hussy and more tbc.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance with a lift up to first floor where party is being held (The Art School). Accessible toilets on ground and third floors via lifts. Performances are visual-based.
Tickets £6 / £4 with SQIFF ticket stub / free for unemployed and asylum seekers. Tickets available on the door.

Feminist Porn Night II
2016-09-30 21:00 - 23:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Round Two of SQIFF’s popular Feminist Porn Night features an exciting collection of films from a new generation of feminist pornographers, who continue to challenge sexual stereotypes and reshape norms of mainstream porn. We bring you a selection of groundbreaking work from the UK, USA, and France followed by a discussion with UK-based directors, Vex Ashley from Four Chambers, a collaborative DIY producer of porn, and Blath from indie project Foxclore.
Curated by artists Marie Lidén and Natalie McGowan and hosted by writer-producer-performer Emily Benita.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets on first floor (CCA). Films screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. BSL interpretation for discussion. Most films in English language with long segments with no dialogue.

£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.

Flux (8m)
Dir: Four Chambered Heart, Country: UK
Flux is the conduit for transference of energy.
OHBOY Episode 3 | James (14m)
Dir: Damien Moreau, Country: France, USA
James Darling is a pornographer from Los Angeles. Today is his birthday and he needs a break, some time away from the camera and the screen, to reflect on the past year and his successes…
Ageless Sex (3m)
Dir: Marc Silver, Country: UK
Libby left an unhappy marriage at the age of sixty with only the clothes on her back and £20 in her pocket. The film is an inspiring account of finding self-confidence and happiness through a late life career in the adult entertainment industry.
Pressed Flowers (6m)
Dir: Foxclore, Country: UK
The OH Files (39m)
Dir: Aorta Films, Country: USA
Milk chugging, mylar, slow motion resonance, filling and being filled; these are just a few of the images that flood AORTA Films’ first feature, The OH Files, starring Parts Authority, Ginny Woolf, Erykah Ohms, Xposed Brick, and Toxic Shock.
Proximity IV (11m)
Dir: Four Chambered Heart, Country: UK
The Proximity series explores a digital replication of intimacy. The intense closeness of the camera highlights interactions sometimes lost in traditional porn shoots, breath, touches, skin, eye contact.
Wall of Fire (6m)
Dir: Lisa Ganser, Nomy Lamm, Country: USA
Roles switch, paddles hit & control shifts when two fat bodied gender queer women, lovers off camera, push limits of pleasure, penetration & trust, engaged in an afternoon of tender making out and consensual amputee sex. Original score by Nomy Lamm. This movie was completely underwritten & fully funded by the Smitten Kitten.

Henry Gamble's Birthday Party
2016-09-30 20:30 - 22:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Henry Gamble, the mild-mannered son of a small-town pastor, is turning seventeen. Friends, family, and select members of his father’s congregation have gathered at his home for some wholesome pool party fun. However, Henry finds himself caught between the evangelical teachings of his conservative upbringing and developing feelings he has for his male friends. A perceptive and passionate account of a young queer person growing up within the sometimes stifling confines of a devoutly religious household, director Stephen Cone’s beautifully realised film is a quietly gripping exercise in simmering tension and burgeoning emotions.
Content note: mention of suicide and scene of self-harm.
ACCESS: Level access with Cinema plus accessible toilets all on ground floor (CCA). Film screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Hearing loop available. Film in English language.

£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.

SQIFF Workshop: Porn Filmmaking with Vex Ashley SOLD OUT
2016-09-30 18:30 - 20:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
This event is now SOLD OUT.
A session led by Vex Ashley, an independent porn producer and performer making work with creative pornography project, Four Chambers. Vex worked as an alt porn model and webcam performer before beginning to make video work in 2013. Self-taught in editing and videography with an emphasis on collaborative DIY practices, Four Chambers exists alongside a new wave of creators making contemporary pornographic work from a new perspective. Using the community of social media and capacity of crowdfunding, Vex’s output is part of a growing decentralisation from traditional industry practices.
ACCESS: Access via lift to Club Room on third floor. Accessible toilet next to the room. Any clips shown screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation for the workshop, please email info@sqiff.org at least one week in advance.
Free but ticketed.
To book tickets, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Yes, we fuck!
2016-09-30 18:30 - 19:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Dealing with a topic too often ignored by mainstream society, Yes, we fuck! considers the pleasure and joy, prejudice and expectations, and potential physical obstacles to having sex when disabled. In this insightful documentary, directors Centeno and de la Morena survey disability and sex and the collectives, support groups, and sex workers who assist people in exploring their sexualities. Yes, we fuck! presents a range of experiences that deconstruct ideas of what is considered ‘normal,’ desirous, and taboo when it comes to getting off.
Directors Antonio Centeno and Raúl de la Morena will be present for a Q&A. Presented in partnership with Scottish Documentary Institute. Antonio and Raúl will also be delivering a free masterclass on documentary filmmaking.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets on first floor (CCA). Film in Spanish with English subtitles. BSL interpretation for discussion.
To book tickets, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

SQIFF Shorts: Ma(i)nly Men
2016-09-30 18:00 - 19:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
What does it mean to be a man? Insights into a cultural project designed to get gay men talking about sex and drug use, a destructive relationship between a married ‘heterosexual’ man and a gay guy, an experimental plunge into the homoeroticism of male rowers, two trans guys building campfires and hanging out in the wilderness together, a father taking exception to his son winning the family bread through sex work, and a group of unreconstituted hetero studs being upstaged by women at the gym. A selection of shorts probing masculinity from a variety of angles.
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. Most films in English language.

£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.

Let’s Talk About Gay Sex And Drugs (12m)
Dir: Leon Lopez, Country: UK, Year: 2015
A short documentary about a monthly open mic night in London, where speakers are encouraged to talk about their experiences of drug and sex culture in the gay scene.
Nightstand (26m)
Dir: Charles Parham, Country: UK, Year: 2015
Nightstand stages the destructive relationship between two men over three consecutive nights – one is gay, lost and adolescent, the other is married to a woman and middle-aged.
X-Film (3m)
Dir: Inaki Sagastume, Country: Basque, Year: 2015
A film poem in which the sound and fury of skin flaps like a flag under the flow of assaults!
(The Here and Now) A Visit (12m)
Dir: Finn Paul, Country: USA, Year: 2015
A narrative portrait, and a staged document, of a friendship between two trans men as they hang out in the wilderness.
The Owls (10m)
Dir: Natalia Bougadellis, Country: Greece, Year: 2016
A young man’s parents find themselves unemployed and he is required to put food on the table, turning to sex work to make ends meet.
No Game Lots of Pain (3m)
Dir: Guy Wilson, Country: UK, Year: 2015
Two hetero men try to woo a woman at the gym and she is less than impressed.

Coming Out
2016-09-30 16:30 - 17:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Coming Out follows young filmmaker Alden Peters on his journey coming out as gay, capturing everything on camera as it happens. This groundbreaking coming of age film places viewers directly inside the raw, intimate moments when Alden reveals his true identity to his family and friends, ranging from the painfully awkward to the hilariously honest. A story bridging generations and societal divides, this award-winning documentary makes us rethink what it means to live authentically, ultimately leading us to a place of understanding and acceptance of self and community.
Presented in association with Glasgow University LGBTQ+.
ACCESS: Level access at entrance with lift up to first floor for Theatre space. Accessible toilets on first floor (CCA). Film screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Film in English language.

Free but ticketed.
To book tickets, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Masterclass with Raúl de la Morena and Antonio Centeno
2016-09-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A masterclass with the directors of Spanish documentary, Yes, we fuck!, an unflinching and nuanced exploration of disability and sexual desire. Raúl de la Morena is a filmmaker who produces documentaries with Foro de vida independiente y divertad (Forum for Independent Living and Diversity). Antonio Centeno is a disability rights activist who embarked on Yes, we fuck! as a means to challenge society’s attitudes. The session will focus on the process of creating work on the theme of disability, the use of social media and crowdfunding in building a project, and documentary filmmaking with a limited budget.
Presented in partnership with Scottish Documentary Institute. We are also screening Yes, we fuck! with a Q&A with Raúl and Antonio in the Festival.
ACCESS: Level access with Cinema plus accessible toilets all on ground floor (CCA). Film clips screening with English subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Hearing loop available. If you would like to attend and require BSL interpretation for the masterclass, please email info@sqiff.org at least one week in advance.

Free but ticketed.
To book tickets, please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Out Run
2016-09-30 13:00 - 14:15 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
As leader of the world’s only LGBT political party, Bemz Benedito dreams of being the first transgender woman in the Philippine Congress. But in a predominantly Catholic nation, rallying for LGBT representation is not an easy feat. Bemz and her team of queer political warriors must rethink traditional campaign strategies to amass support. Taking their equality campaign to small-town hair salons and regional beauty pageants, the activists mobilise working-class trans hairdressers and beauty queens to join the fight against their main political opponent, a homophobic evangelical preacher, and convince the Filipino electorate to get behind LGBT rights.
In association with Document, Glasgow’s International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
ACCESS: Level access with Cinema plus accessible toilets all on ground floor (CCA). Film screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Hearing loop available. Film in English language.

£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.
