SQIFF is back with five days of the best of independent LGBTQ+ filmmaking from across the globe. Join us in five new venues across Glasgow from 27th October – 1st November 2025.
SQIFF 2025 Artwork: Anastacia MacDonald
Continuing our legacy as Scotland’s biggest and longest-running queer film festival, SQIFF brings together the best of independent LGBTQ+ filmmaking from across the globe. With a line-up of 19 curated programmes screening over 90 short films, four feature films, world premieres, a special Halloween horror event, as well as a queer craft fair, the Best Scottish Short award competition, industry events and networking for filmmakers, panels, performances, and more. This year’s festival will take place across screens and venues in Glasgow’s Merchant City, including The Social Hub, GMAC, Listen Gallery, and The Boardwalk, with a late-night party at the iconic Art School.
Check out the full programme here, with a text-only version here, and an audio version here.
Tickets
Tickets can be booked online through our website here.
Tickets can also be bought on the door at each venue. Please arrive 15 minutes before the advertised start time. After that, we may release tickets to walk-ins. Tickets for most events are on a sliding scale of FREE, £4, £8, £12, £16, £20. Choose what to pay based on your circumstances. If you can afford more, it helps us out if you pay more. This allows us to have free or cheap tickets for those who most need them and keep the festival going as well as support queer filmmakers.
A Tenner for Ten!
Want to celebrate our 10th birthday with us? We’re working hard to ensure we can keep supporting queer film in Scotland. We’re fundraising for year-round costs, asking for you to donate a tenner to celebrate a decade of SQIFF and help ensure we can keep running for 10 more years!
Donate a tenner for ten here
Accessibility
SQIFF aims to be radically accessible, with this year’s access measures including full wheelchair access to all venues, audio description, live captioning, BSL interpretation, descriptive subtitles and more. For a moment of down time in the busy programme, there is a designated Quiet Room at the Art School, GMAC, The Boardwalk, and The Social Hub that will be open from at least half an hour before the first event each day until after the last event of the day starts. You can read more about this year’s access measures here, and if you have any questions about accessibility, please email [email protected] or come and visit the access desk during the festival. If you need to contact us by phone, please call our team at +44 7873 331036.
We are so excited for SQIFF’s 10th edition. We can’t wait to share our ambitious programme with you, including everything from queer heartbreak to camp horror. SQIFF has a fantastic audience and we look forward to coming together again to celebrate queer film, art and community.
Team SQIFF x
Supported by Screen Scotland, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network), all awarding National Lottery funding. Also supported by Instituto Guimarães Rosa, via the Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh.