In a follow-up to his film Purple Skies, activist Sridhar Rangayan’s documentary Breaking Free delves into the lives of LGBT people affected by India’s colonialist law Section 377. A personal journey recounting painful realities alongside offering hope in the shape of queer communities in India fighting for justice. Screening with short film FU377 directed by […]
We present a spectrum of styles and stories, from melodrama to animated collage, body hair to wrestling, and high camp to sobering allegory, with a selection of short films representing a breadth of filmmaking and LGBTI and queer contexts in Scotland. We hope to be joined by a number of the filmmakers after the screening […]
An upper-class family in 1960s Milan is invaded by a mysterious stranger, who seduces and unsettles everyone in the household - maid, mother, father, daughter, and son. A sublime, surreal, and very queer look at sexuality, desire, and class by director Pier Paolo Pasolini. Screening with short Your Eyes Flashing Solemnly With Hate by Mark […]
From the makers of lesbian classic D.E.B.S. comes a rock musical following five women through one epic night. Daisy and Tyler are two hapless rockers trying to make it to a Battle of the Bands on time, despite being derailed by Daisy’s sister, Colby, who’s exploring her newfound queer identity by chasing what she thinks […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
