A gay man seeks asylum in the Czech Republic and must endure an absurd entry exam, a genderqueer woman confronts society’s prejudices when she shaves her head, members of a UK organisation for LGBT Muslim people describe the group’s history, and two football players give their best pantomime performance of heterosexuality... A selection of shorts […]
A failed lesbian rock group try to revive their fortunes by travelling to a Battle of the Bands competition in the big city. Along the way, they must fend off cyborgs, ghosts, a gang of roller derby girls, ninjas, and an evil billionaire who tries to thwart their every move. SQIFF proudly presents the UK […]
Frangipani depicts a love triangle between three young people in a small village in Sri Lanka. Chamath is trying to avoid a traditional marriage and is drawn to free-spirited Sarasi. When newcomer Nalin arrives in their village, Sarasi falls for him but so, in the end, does Chamath. Social pressures weigh on all three, increasing […]
Campbell X wrote their Radical Film Manifesto as an artist’s Call to Arms, so that anyone who didn’t see images of themselves represented could know it was possible to create their own film anyway. As so-called minority people, there are barriers to telling stories or owning the stories that are told. These barriers can make […]
In Madrid and Paris, Boti, Empar, Micheline, and Jocelyne, four lesbian women in their seventies, talk about their fears and desires. Their sex and love lives past and present are a focus alongside their involvement in LGBT activism and their relationship with age. A beautiful testimony on the experience of aging as a queer woman. […]
Films about activism and films as activism. Sins Invalid is a performance project incubating and celebrating artists with disabilities, centralising artists of colour and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, its performances have explored sexuality, beauty, and the disabled body. We’re screening Sins Invalid’s shorts Disability Justice for Palestine, Sins Invalid: an Unashamed Claim to […]
SOLD OUT - MORE TICKETS MAY BE AVAILABLE FROM BOX OFFICE ON THE DAY Filmmaker Marit Östberg will share her experiences of creating feminist porn and lead the group through a discussion on the joys, desires, politics, and production of porn. Marit is a filmmaker and artist from Sweden. Her visual world has been described […]
Loosely inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s (after whom ‘masochism’ is named) book Venus in Furs, filmmakers Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch’s take features a dominatrix called Wanda, who runs a Hamburg art gallery where audiences pay to watch sadomasochistic performances. The boundaries between Wanda’s personal and professional lives blur as three people vie for her […]
SOLD OUT- MORE TICKETS MAY BE AVAILABLE ON THE NIGHT A female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master in a future where humanity shifts between flesh and machine. While sometimes read as subverting fixed ideas about gender and sexuality, Mamoru Oshii’s anime classic also appears to […]
Is it possible to make ‘feminist porn’? By creating and watching pornography that challenges the ingrained sexual stereotypes of the mainstream adult film industry, can we use this sexually radical filmmaking as a kind of weapon? Reversing gender clichés, pushing boundaries, and empowering. And can we get off on that?! Join us for an evening […]
