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Award-winning filmmaker Asten Holmes-Elliott, writer and director of shorts James Dean and Citizen M and co-founder of Glasgow-based collective Lock Up Your Daughters Filmmaking, will examine questions and situations that arise when writing a script with a queer storyline/LGBTQI characters. Suitable for those who would like either feedback on a script already in development or […]
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A hypnotic, intensely personal film featuring a mix of mysterious and mystical images: a masturbating moon, a couple having sex in a tent filled with balloons and electric lights, a pair of vibrators hidden in a head of lettuce. Beautifully episodic, Who Will Fuck Daddy? switches from documentary sequences about parenthood, gender, ecstasy, and rebirth, […]
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āI just want to be loved by my family,ā says Bennett, a 19-year-old trans man. āBut for my family, itās not as simple as that.ā Benās mum is having a hard time coming to terms with her childās transition. His dad and sister no longer speak to him. But thanks to social media, Ben meets […]
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Queer film legend Bruce LaBruce's newest feature dives headlong into the world of the Female Liberation Army hiding out in the heart of Gerwomany. Led by Big Mother, the FLA indoctrinates its young recruits to take up the struggle of freeing all female people through a mix of revolutionary porn-making, songs about taking down the […]
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A young man gets a job in Canadaās busiest gay bathhouse, a cartoonist from Rio de Janeiro draws members of the trans community to help deal with his own issues, the gender and disability politics of toilets are explored, a purifying ritual bath performed by Jewish brides is reinterpreted by two men, a gay guy […]
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In the last few years, local authorities in Scotland have increased care charging, obliging people with disabilities to pay more than others to achieve the same basic human rights. Tax on Me is a hip-hop music video by filmmaker Kiana Kalantar-Hormozi and media coop responding to the Care Tax and the effect it has on […]
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Atopos Compagnia Teatrale is an Italian theatre company bringing together professional and non-professional actors, both trans- and cisgender. This documentary is about their experiences in the creation of Atopos' flagship production, Human Variables. The film describes reality through chronicling the making of a play, a conventionally fictitious endeavour. Human Variables is a show that builds […]
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āFailing is something queers do and always have done exceptionally wellā¦ā Jack Halberstamās 2011 book The Queer Art of Failure explores how failure can be embraced as a form of resistance to the demands of heterosexual, capitalist society. At this event, we celebrate and assert our right to fail at life as individuals and communities. […]
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Lasse LĆ„ngstrƶm's films - including Folkbildningsterror and Who Will Fuck Daddy?, both screening in the Festival - are always personal, political, and unlike anything else you're likely to see.Ā Collaborating with groups of friends, his work is always inventive and anarchic - and often really funny as well. In this workshop, Lasse will discuss his […]
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Greg is a studious 18-year-old from a working-class Trinidadian neighbourhood. He dreams of attending university thanks to a scholarship but his plans are put at risk by James, a wealthy married man who becomes sexually obsessed with him. When Greg pushes back against James, is it because he's not interested or because he's unable to […]
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Imagine a queer anarchist punk musical in which a gang full of genderqueer and non-binary people set out to kidnap Michael Gove and the manager from your local Jobcentre, before setting all the animals free from Edinburgh Zoo. Well this is that, except set in Sweden. Folkbildningsterror is about taking on the neoliberal state with […]
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Co-directors Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi interweave candid stories told by Mexican ranchera singer Chavela Vargas and those closest to her in this multi-faceted biographical film. An incomparable performer, she was also a lesbian woman who defied all social expectations, revolutionising music and challenging the stereotypical macho and hetero cultural norms of the times. This […]
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How do people who donāt experience themselves as simply female or male handle a culture that offers only these two identities? A Womb of Their Own introduces a charismatic, funny, thoughtful group of masculine-of-centre-identified people who go through pregnancy. Each individual and couple navigates gender expectations - coming even from within the LGBT community - […]
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āThe gazeā is a term used in visual media to mean the way viewers look at images and onscreen characters look at each other, traditionally in critique of male-centred and patriarchal movie-making. So what happens when the act of looking in films is queered? Featuring Campbell Xās new experimental short, DES!RE, foregrounding lust for masc […]
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A selection of shorts asking if - and challenging the notion - that we are really queer yet. We follow LGBTQ+ people forging their own space in society and building new worlds. New communities emerge unapologetically, from creation of the trans flag to voguing on a roof in New York. One character states, āWe are […]
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Morgan and her ex-girlfriend Jean are locally famous true crime podcasters obsessed with female serial killers. Thereās a chance they may still have feelings for each other but co-dependence takes a back seat when Morgan meets the mysterious Simone during her Food Coop shift. The more she discovers about the mysterious past of her new […]
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Why is making an emotional connection with your father so hard, especially for queer men? In Bleach, trans man Jay sets out in search of Shane, his estranged father and macho boxing gym owner. Dads sees 20-something Scott finding his Sunday morning hangover interrupted by unexpected visits from both his father and older lover. Noam, […]
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Filmmaker, performer, and musician Sky Deep, whose directorial debut Enactone won Best Feature at the 2016 Berlin Porn Film Festival, will lead a workshop investigating body positivity, self-love, and using porn-making as a means of therapy. Demonstrating how she began using her own likeness in music videos before moving on to create Enactone, which she […]
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A key figure in the gay rights movement of 1980s and 90s South America, Carlos JĆ”uregui became politicised after witnessing mass demonstrations and early pride marches taking place in France and the United States. Returning home to find street arrests and mass raids on gay nightclubs becoming alarmingly frequent, he grew convinced that visibility and […]
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After suffering a wrongful death in 1914, former US slave Marie Scott - now a vampire - got a second chance at living to gain vengeance and live forever. This type of life comes with a price, though, and like everyone else, Marie must pay. Can she resist the most prime orgasmic blood in her […]
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Thereās been a murder on the dance floorā¦ Free Pride and SQIFF are joining supernatural forces to bring you a queer horror party! Expect ghoulish surprises and terrifying tunes with Glasgowās finest LGBTQ DJs to get you death-dropping, and performances fabulous enough to raise the undead. Don your fangs and get ready to be spooked! […]
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This event is now FULLY BOOKED - sorry for any disappointment. Please see our list of other fabulous free filmmaking workshops taking place during SQIFF 2017. There are also still tickets left for our screening of Catherine's new film, Chavela. Founder and Director of Aubin Pictures, Catherine Gund is an Emmy-nominated producer, director, writer, and […]
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In LGBT+ politics and activism bisexual people are often left out of the conversation. To consider bisexual people - our lives, our desires, and the difficulties we face - enriches our understanding of sexuality, foregrounding issues that we otherwise might not consider. This is eye-opening when considering cinematic representations of bisexuality. Taking a ride through […]
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A trans woman is pursued by a charming cis man who is not the kind individual he first seems. A trans skater from Sheffield switches roller derby teams in order to live more authentically. A teenager and their traditionally-minded father struggle to find common ground after the former starts questioning their gender identity in rural […]
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A focus on the work of two British-South Asian queer women filmmakers across different generations. Activist and director Pratibha Parmarās work centres on gender, race, and LGBT issues. Her groundbreaking Khush (1991), for instance, portrays lesbian women and gay men in India and the Indian diaspora discussing acceptance and embracing of their sexuality. We explore […]
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Are you a queer filmmaker working in Scotland or beyond? Come and join us for some networking, schmoozing, and boozing. A chance to meet others who are LGBTQ+ and interested or already working in filmmaking. Share ideas, discuss your projects, or just hang out and have a nice time. We hope to be joined by […]
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Sad Girl Cinema is an ongoing documentary film project exploring mental health narratives in screen culture created by queer writers Claire Biddles and Bethany Rose Lamont and designed by Maggie Webster. Sorted into three themes: therapy, the mental health ward, and tortured geniuses and tragic muses, SGC navigates a whole bunch of pop cultural clichĆ©s […]
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Fred Barney Taylor's documentary offers a portrait of Samuel R. Delany, black gay man, radical, and revered author of science fiction novels. Delany is also a well-regarded literary critic and academic with a candid and iconoclastic approach. He recounts his Harlem childhood, experiences with psychotherapy, and promiscuous adventures in the infamous Everard Baths and other […]
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Proudly presenting dykes defying society, each other, themselves, and the demands and expectations of both hetero and queer culture. A feisty granny drags her granddaughter out of the closet, 3 Butch/Femme and Stud/Fem lesbian couples from working-class backgrounds share fragments from their lives, a 17-year-old from a West Bank settlement goes to a gay club […]
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M4M showcases queer sex on camera with a variety of vivid, lurid, and fluid short films and clips. Presenting scenes from prominent gay porn company productions including Falcon Studiosā pioneering 1983 film, Spokes, and the infamous Devil's Dick scene from Treasure Island Media's 2006 Breeding Season. Also featuring a selection of works by Zachary Hutchinson, […]
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Described by director Gregg Araki as "A Beverly Hills 90210 episode on acid,ā Nowhere follows 18-year-old Dark Smith through a day in the teenagerās life in LA. Dark fails to get the emotional support he craves from girlfriend Mel, who is also involved with a girl named Lucifer, while Dark moons over hunky Montgomery. A […]
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You know whatās scarier than the crushing weight of unfulfilled heteronormative pressure? Yup, pretty much nothing! So come all you perfect lil queer babies and dance among your affective family one last time before SQIFF shuts up shop for another year. Hosted at DRYGATE BREWERY, LUYD presents a night of fresh queers, craft beers, and […]
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Dory (voiced by gay rights hero Ellen DeGeneres) is a wide-eyed, blue tang fish who suffers from memory loss every ten seconds or so. The one thing she can remember is that she somehow became separated from her parents as a child. With help from her friends, Nemo and Marlin, Dory embarks on an epic […]
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The huge beautiful hall in the GoMA has been left free and open for SQIFF to play with, so what do you think we did? Built a queer teenagerās bedroom, of course! Come lounge and hang out in our fully interactive installation. There will even be equipment to watch the LGBTQ+ short film DVDs piled […]
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āWe felt like every day was wonderful and anything could happen.ā Rich and distinguished stories unfold among the lives of long-term survivors who have learned how to celebrate, heal, love, and thrive after the devastation of the early AIDS crisis. In this cathartic and intimate documentary, eight men look back on their experiences and then […]
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On her way to the store with a group of friends, trans woman Chrishaun Reed āCeCeā McDonald was brutally attacked and in defending her life, a man was killed. After a coercive interrogation, CeCe was incarcerated in a menās prison in Minnesota. An international campaign to free CeCe garnered significant support from media and activists, […]
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Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Sheila McLaughlin's solo directorial debut follows professional social advocate Agatha (Sheila Dabney) and her partner, mercurial indie filmmaker Jo (Lois Weaver). Taking care of Jo's flat whilst sheās away, Agatha discovers Jo's diary, which catalogues her past sexual experiences with men. As Jo repeatedly leaves to work on production […]
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Presenting a selection of the compelling array of queer filmmaking happening in Scotland. A gay man drags his friend into lying to his mother with hilarious results, a Polish woman gives insights into why she chose to leave her country to move to Edinburgh, a mother-daughter relationship in the year 2020 proves surprising, and a […]
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Bruce LaBruce's Hustler White features the legendary Canadian filmmaker himself as lovelorn academic JĆ¼rgen Anger, whose quest to document the LA hustling scene leads him into an increasingly tangled relationship with the reckless Monti Ward. A satirical black comedy riffing on Sunset Boulevard amongst other Hollywood classics, this early work from LaBruce also stars queer […]
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195 LEWIS is a dramedy series about a group of women navigating the realities of being Black, queer, and polyamorous in New York City. Based in Brooklyn, the series follows Yuri and Camille as they test the boundaries of their open relationship. Yuriās growing infatuation with a new lover leaves Camille distressed, which is only […]
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The worldwide stage appearances and workshops of gender activist and performance artist Diane Torr are legendary. For over thirty years, the focus of Diane's work was an exploration of the theoretical, artistic, and practical aspects of gender identity. Director Katarina Peters observes a Berlin workshop taught by Diane, in which a group of open-minded women […]
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Technological LGBTQ+ themes are probed in this cyber-collection of shorts. Featuring a DIY documentary about queer and trans bodies and online self-representation, trans people talking about how they have actively used videogames to explore their gender, a gay man programming his very own virtual world - a campy safe haven - in a dystopian future […]
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Zaynab is a thirty-something Pakistani, Muslim, lesbian lawyer living in Chicago who begins a romance with Alma, a confident and vivacious Mexican-American woman. Zaynabās recently widowed mother Parveen spends her days watching Pakistani TV dramas while searching for a potential husband for her daughter. Almaās mother, Rosa, is a former professional Luchadora, which Zaynab finds […]
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Queer film legend Bruce LaBruceās newest feature dives headlong into the world of the Female Liberation Army hiding out in the heart of Gerwomany. Led by Big Mother, the FLA indoctrinates its young recruits to take up the struggle of freeing all female people through a mix of revolutionary porn-making, songs about taking down the […]
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**THIS YEAR'S FILMMAKING COURSE IS NOW FULLY BOOKED** Various venues in Glasgow, 21st/22nd/28th/29th October, FREE. A course taking place over 2 weekends designed for trans, non-binary, and intersex people to come together and create a short film. Learn about the process of filmmaking including coming up with an idea, writing a script, shooting, and editing. […]
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The Book of Gabrielle is a clever dramedy about an intimate yet platonic relationship that develops between a female graphic artist and an older male erotic novelist. Saul delights in Gabrielleās description of her past affairs and ongoing relationship with her younger girlfriend, Olivia (Anna Koval), just as Gabrielle likes to explore masculinity through Saul. […]
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The Book of Gabrielle is a clever dramedy about an intimate yet platonic relationship that develops between a female graphic artist and an older male erotic novelist. Saul delights in Gabrielleās description of her past affairs and ongoing relationship with her younger girlfriend, Olivia (Anna Koval), just as Gabrielle likes to explore masculinity through Saul. […] |
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