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Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2nd-6th October
There is a large
print version of this
brochure available at
CCA Box Office.
All Festival handouts
also have large print
versions available.
SQIFF has reached its 5th
birthday!! Reflecting on
everything we’ve learnt - and
the absolute privilege of working
with LGBTQIA+ folks of so many
different backgrounds and
experiences over the years - we
approached the 2019 fest firmly
focused on community and
collectivity.
Our Opening Night Shorts showcase and Rights alongside artist and researcher
stories of queers coming together, sharing Claricia Parinussa to include events as
love, and fighting hard for our rights. In part of Black History Month. That’s just
strand You Gotta Have Faith, we look at a taster of the range of films, workshops,
religion, addressing the myth that religious discussion, performance, parties and way
devotion/spiritually and queerness more you’ll find within!
are mutually exclusive and welcoming
Our 2019 Festival is dedicated to the
guests from different faiths to share their
memory of SQIFF co-founder Kat Lindner,
knowledge. Latinx Legends foregrounds
whose kindness continues to inspire.
individuals central to Latin American queer
art and activism in a series of exceptional
documentaries. We’re also pleased to be
Team SQIFF xx
working with Coalition for Racial Equality
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festival team
Festival Coordinator & Programmer Technical Events Assistant
Helen Wright Ania Urbanowska
Programmer Distribution Assistant
Samar Ziadat Dharrish Rajendram
Technical Coordinator Finance Assistant
Marc David Jacobs Robert Fox
PR Coordinator Design
Ruth Marsh Susie McConnell
Marketing Coordinator Artwork
Sarah Cochrane Saffa Kahn
Access & Engagement Coordinator Festival trailer
Alison Smith Octopus Smith featuring
Mausi
Guest Coordinator
Lucy Rosenstiel BSL trailer
Jamie Rea and Nicole
Volunteer Coordinator O’Reilly
Naomi Gessesse
Captioners
Sponsorship Coordinator AB Silvera, Nicole O’Reilly,
Emma van der Putten Em Beatriz, Anna Schneider
Administrative & Events Assistant Photography
Sami Tiu Makkonen
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TICKETS AND
HOW TO BOOK
See www.sqiff.org for full film and event FREE or £2
listings. Tickets can be booked online in
advance or bought on the door. Reserved
tickets must be collected 20 minutes
before the advertised start time or they
will be made available on the door.
Tickets for most events are on a
sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, or £8.
Choose what to pay based on your
circumstances. We ask that you be
honest with yourself about your financial
situation. This allows us to provide
financial flexibility to those who most
need it and make SQIFF affordable
to more people alongside sustaining
£4 or £6
the Festival and supporting queer
filmmakers. If you have any questions
about what you should pay, please get in
touch via info@sqiff.org or ask a member
of staff on the day.
For CCA and GFT events, booking can also
be done in person at each venue’s Box
Office, via the CCA website - www.cca-
glasgow.com - or on the phone by calling
0141 352 4900; or via the GFT website
- glasgowfilm.org - or on the phone by
calling 0141 332 6535.
If you work for a charity or community £8
organisation and would like to bring a
group along to an event, please contact
info@sqiff.org to reserve free tickets.
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SLIDING SCALE TICKETS
I am unable to meet my basic needs*; I am receiving ESA/JSA/
UC, DLA/PIP, or working tax credits, am unemployed or on low
income. I use foodbanks.
I have no or very limited expendable income** and walk because
I can’t afford public transport.
I rarely buy new items because I am unable to afford them.
I don’t have holidays.
I am employed but stress about meeting my basic needs,
although I still achieve them.
I may have some debt but it does not stop me meeting my
basic needs.
I can afford public transport and taxis. If I have a car/access to
a car I can afford petrol.
I have access to financial savings or some expendable income.
I shop new and second-hand.
I am comfortably able to meet all of my basic needs, have
savings and an expendable income.
I may have some debt but it doesn’t stop me meeting basic
needs.
I own my home or property or I rent a higher-end property.
I can afford public and private transport. If I have a car/access to
a car I can afford petrol.
*BASIC NEEDS include food, housing, clothing, and transportation. **EXPENDABLE INCOME
might mean you are able to buy coffee or tea at a shop, go to the cinema or a concert, buy new
clothes, books and similar items each month, etc.
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VENUES
CCA (Main Festival Hub) The Seamore
350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD Neighbourhood Cinema
www.cca-glasgow.com 304 Maryhill Road, G20 7YE
0141 352 4900 www.theseamore.org
07552 011 508
Glasgow Women’s Library Civic House
23 Landressy Street, G40 1BP 26 Civic Street, G4 9RH
www.womenslibrary.org.uk www.civic-house.com
0141 550 2267 No contact phone number
The Art School Category Is Books
20 Scott Street, G3 6PE 34 Allison Street, G42 8NN
www.theartschool.co.uk www.categoryisbooks.com
No contact phone number 0141 463 4934
Glasgow Film Theatre Please contact
12 Rose Street, G3 6RB individual venues or
www.glasgowfilm.org
0141 332 6535
email access@sqiff.org
if you require any
further information.
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ACCESSIBILITY
All our venues have access for Gender neutral toilets are available
wheelchair users and people with at CCA, Glasgow Women’s Library,
other mobility issues. This includes a The Art School, and Civic House.
wheelchair accessible toilet at most
venues.
Films not certified by the BBFC are
All films are presented with English marked N/C and accompanied by an age
language captions or subtitles to recommendation, e.g. N/C 15+ (suitable
make the Festival more accessible for D/ for ages 15 and over - no-one under 15
deaf and hard of hearing audiences. will be admitted). Events may also have
a specified age limit, e.g. ages 18+, due to
Our Opening Night Shorts plus overall content.
all extended introductions, Q&As, Content notes for films are available to
talks, and panels taking place at our main download from www.sqiff.org and will be
venue, CCA, Friday 4 to Sunday 6 October read out at the start of relevant events.
have BSL interpretation available (see
We have a travel fund available for
also individual listings). If you would like
audience members who couldn’t
to attend any other event and require BSL
otherwise afford to attend the Festival.
interpretation, please get in touch at least 2
If you would like to apply for this, please
weeks before the event via access@sqiff.org.
email access@sqiff.org.
Two of our events at CCA will have Comfy bean bags are available at CCA and
live Speech to Text available. See Category Is Books. Seating can be reserved
individual listings for these. on request. Please email access@sqiff.org.
There are downloadable and text-only
Induction loops are available at the
versions of the brochure on www.sqiff.org.
Box Office and in most event spaces
at CCA and in select other venues. See There is a Quiet Space available at CCA
individual listings. throughout the Festival.
We aim to create a generally safe and
Four of our screenings at CCA will inclusive environment at the Festival and
have audio description available. ask people to respect each other and be
Please see individual listings for these. sensitive to the diversity of identities
Headsets are available from the CCA Box within LGBTQIA+ communities. If you feel
Office. Notes on the general accessibility unsafe at any point, please feel free to
of all films for blind and partially sighted speak to a member of staff.
audiences are available to download from
www.sqiff.org. For more information or any queries about
the above, please contact access@sqiff.org.
All venues have on street parking.
See venue websites for more
information.
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Wednesday 2 October
SQIFF Shorts: Intimacies
CCA Cinema, 12.30pm (76m), Various directors, N/C 12+, English, Persian, French, Spanish,
and Portuguese audio and ASL with English captions/subtitles
Touch, connection, sensuality, bonding. Sharing of solidarity, friendship, grief, and (com)
passion. This selection of short films from the UK, US, Iran, Brazil, and the Amazon trace
intimacies between friends, family, communities, and lovers. The revolutionary potential
of femme for femme relationships. Upholding trans and immigrant identities and memory
across generations. Busting childhood isolation and fear of being queer. Leaving your
life behind due to youthful yearning. A slow-paced and tactile assortment of stories
embracing many different faces and places.
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Wednesday 2 October
Norfolk Trans Youth: Respecting LUX Scotland presents: where did
& Understanding Differences we land + Fi Dem I & II
CCA Cinema, 3pm (75m), Nicole O’Reilly, CCA Theatre, 3.30pm (35m), Various
N/C 12+, English audio with English directors, N/C 12+, English and Patois
captions/subtitles audio with English captions/subtitles
Commissioned by Norwich-based London-based curator and artist Rabz
Mancroft Advice Project and created Lansiquot screens their new moving
by Scottish filmmaker Nicole O’Reilly, image essay where did we land, an ongoing
Norfolk Trans Youth: Respecting & experiment interrogating the effect of
Understanding Differences gives a voice images of anti-black violence produced
to young trans people. Incorporating and reproduced in film and media, and
interviews with trans youth in Norfolk, parts 1 and 2 of artist Zinzi Minott’s Fi
O’Reilly’s debut feature gives its Dem Series, a continued investigation into
participants space to explain transness in Blackness and Diaspora made annually
their own words. Issues of discrimination, on the anniversary of the Empire
visibility, and media representation Windrush docking in the UK on June 22nd
are discussed using an eclectic pallet 1948. The screening will be followed
of stylistic techniques, finding a new by a discussion with Rabz Lansiquot
way to use the documentary format about their research on moving beyond
to reflect trans experiences. Merging representation and towards liberation in
factual documentary with experimental Black film, and how queerness informs
form, this is a visually inventive film their approach.
centring a group often marginalised in
In partnership with LUX Scotland, a non-
conversations about their personhood.
profit agency dedicated to supporting,
Director Nicole O’Reilly will join us for a developing, and promoting artists’ moving
Q&A after the screening. image practices in Scotland.
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Wednesday 2 October
SQIFF 2019 Opening Night Shorts
CCA Theatre, 7pm (65m), Various
directors, N/C 12+, English audio with
English subtitles/captions
We launch the Festival with a stellar
lineup of documentary shorts focused on
LGBTQIA+ community and activism. Adam
and the Alphas depicts the camaraderie
of gay rugby team, the Glasgow Alphas.
Bodies Like Oceans follows self-described Kathleen Mullen’s history of protest
queer fat freak and photographer, Shoog through her massive button collection.
McDaniel. I AM! We are Here! presents
portraits of Queer, Trans* and Gender We hope to welcome several of the
Non Conforming People of Colour in the filmmakers for a Q&A. Followed by a
Bronx, whilst Unspoken sees queer and drinks reception at CCA.
trans Asian Americans writing emotional There will also be an autism-friendly
letters to their families. We Are Here screening of the Opening Night Shorts at
follows members of the Manchester 6.30pm in the CCA Cinema.
House of the Sisters of Perpetual
Indulgence, and Button OUT! is an
animated homage to Canadian filmmaker
09 Tickets FREE / £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 See www.sqiff.org/ticketingThursday 3 October
SQIFF Shorts: Luv Sucks Queen of Lapa
CCA Cinema, 12pm (74m), Various CCA Theatre, 12.30pm (74m), Carolina
directors, N/C 15+, Arabic, English, Monnerat, Theodore Collatos, Brazil,
Spanish, Portuguese, and Tswana audio 2019, N/C 15+, Portuguese audio with
and BSL with English subtitles/captions English subtitles/captions
Romantic relationships can be tough. Larger-than-life actress, cabaret
SQIFF offers up an alternative to performer, activist, and sex
punching walls and texting your ex when worker, Luana Muniz - arguably
pished with these shorts from the heart one of Brazil’s most recognisable
- as in stomping all over it and dumping trans personalities - shapes a new
it in the trash. A bisexual trio have a bust reality for a generation of trans sex
up in a toilet. A boy in a bath pines over workers in her hostel by providing
his unavailable roommate. A woman has a a safe working environment in the
near-but-not-quite romantic encounter dangerous neighbourhood of Lapa in
with a fellow deafie. The vast power of the Rio de Janeiro. Queen of Lapa explores
cosmos can’t prevent a bickering lesbian day-to-day lives, quests for love, and
couple from breaking up. A sex worker housemate rivalries in a turbulent
has his hopes dashed by the man he political climate under matriarch Muniz’s
loves. And in 2033 Botswana, a man loses watchful and guiding eye.
his lover to dystopian despair.
Screening with short Fernanda’s Spring
(20m), in which a trans woman negotiates
discrimination in trying to find work. Part
of our strand Latinx Legends.
Book online for all events at www.SQIFF.org 10Thursday 3 October
SQIFF Shorts: Come Out Fighting Birds of the Borderlands
CCA Cinema, 3pm (69m), Various CCA Theatre, 3.30pm (93m), Jordan
directors, N/C 15+, English and Bryon, Australia, 2018, N/C 15+, English
Portuguese audio with English subtitles/ and Arabic audio with English subtitles/
captions captions
Pushed into corners through Queer Arab stories are powerfully
marginalisation and oppression, the illuminated in genderqueer Australian
characters in these short films come out filmmaker Jordan Bryon’s compelling
fighting for their bodily autonomy, rights, piece of guerrilla filmmaking. Jordanian
and liberation. YaliniDream performs a teenager Hiba is secretly transitioning,
poem of refugee/migrant love for self fearful of being killed by her Bedouin
and the world. Artist Liberty Antonia tribe; gay Iraqi refugee Youssef has
Sadler uses poetry to celebrate larger fled Baghdad and is living in limbo in
bodies in a fatphobic society. In Ponyboi, Amman; lesbian feminist Rasha hides her
an intersex runaway and sex worker sexuality and relationship with Bryon
finds self-redemption and love. The Wind from her family while striving for LGBTIQ
on your Skin sees a young Namibian visibility; and Khalaf, a gay Imam turned
woman fighting back after her girlfriend activist, lives a solitary life in Beirut.
is murdered for being lesbian. Eyes There is tension alongside touching,
explores moving through the world as a reflective moments as Bryon becomes
gender non-conforming person choosing entangled in their struggles, blurring the
between being visible versus being safe. lines between lover, friend, filmmaker, and
And BLACKN3SS dives into the journey of activist.
black queer youth in São Paulo.
Screening with No Man (4m) about
Kenneth Macharia, who is under threat of
deportation from the UK to Kenya, where
he faces persecution.
11 Tickets FREE / £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 See www.sqiff.org/ticketingThursday 3 October
VR & Interactive Exhibition Workshop: DOCMA Filmmaking
Glasgow Women’s Library, 5.30-7.30pm, Challenge
Various artists, N/C 12+, Various CCA Clubroom, 6-8pm, ages 15+
languages and formats - please see
www.sqiff.org for access information A DOCMA is a 5-minute documentary
film made by 5 filmmakers in 5 different
Our VR & Interactive Exhibition
documentary styles. It’s a game -
showcases stories from around the world
designed to get our creative juices
told using the latest technology and
flowing! Roles and tasks are determined
innovative techniques. Experience the
by lottery, and filmmakers must
lives of trans people in Japan through
adhere to a set of rules: The DOCMA
the nostalgic style of early gaming, share
Commandments.
eight LGBTQI+ individuals in Australia’s
intimate memories of their mother’s Come along and learn how to make your
kitchens via an interactive documentary, own DOCMA film. Teams will be formed,
observe a mother and son discuss roles allocated, and the rules explained.
homophobia in Russia in 360 degree You’ll have 2 days to complete your own
video, and lots more. No prior knowledge bit of documentary magic which will
required - the SQIFF team will be on hand be screened to fellow participants and
to guide your experience! friends on the last day of the Festival.
Completed films will be added to the
The exhibition will launch with a special
ever-growing online DOCMA archive.
event on Thursday 3 October 5.30-
7.30pm and will be open Friday 4 October You will need something to shoot and
12-5pm and Saturday 5 October 12-3pm. edit on, e.g. a smart phone and laptop. If
you need to borrow these to be able to
Free and unticketed. Please note you may
take part, please email info@sqiff.org in
need to join a waiting list to try out some
advance of the event.
projects when you come along.
Book online for all events at www.SQIFF.org 12Thursday 3 October
LEAP Sports Scotland presents: Black History Month: Fabulous +
Man Made Father Figure
CCA Cinema, 6.15pm (109m), T Cooper, CCA Theatre, 6.30pm (71m), Audrey Jean-
N/C 15+, English audio with English Baptiste/Bibi Fadlalla, France/Netherlands,
subtitles/captions 2019, N/C 15+, Dutch, English, and French
Trans FitCon is an all-transgender audio with English subtitles/captions, FREE
bodybuilding competition held in Atlanta, In partnership with Coalition for Racial
USA. Man Made follows 4 trans men Equality and Rights (CRER) for Black
stepping on the stage to compete. Rese History Month, we look at the thriving
is a young father struggling with periods ballroom culture of contemporary
of homelessness; Dominic seeks out his Europe. In Fabulous (2019), international
family of origin, confronting an alternate legend Lasseindra Ninja returns to her
history for himself; Kennie admits to home of Guyana to introduce voguing
himself and his loved ones who he is to its LGBTQ community. Father Figure
for the first time in his life; and Mason, follows Guilliano, founding father of The
a loving husband who struggles with Kiki House of Angels, and his friends as
mental illness, works daily to be the man they share experiences of homophobia
he’s always wanted to be. We follow their and racism in the Netherlands.
emotional and physical journeys as they Curated and hosted by artist and
navigate their lives with the very real risks researcher Claricia Parinussa, co-
inherent in the current social and political founder and organiser of Vogue
climate. For the men of Man Made, it’s not Scotland. Followed by an introduction
about winning - it’s about being seen. to the history of House Ball culture and
In partnership with LEAP Sports Scotland discussion on the necessity of prioritising
and followed by a discussion about the QTIPOC community in these spaces.
access of trans people to sport.
13 Tickets FREE / £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 See www.sqiff.org/ticketingThursday 3 October
But I’m a Cheerleader Brief Story from the Green
CCA Theatre, 9pm (89m), Jamie Babbit, Planet
USA (1999), 15, English audio with English CCA Cinema, 9.30pm (75m), Santiago
subtitles/captions Loza, Argentina, Germany, Brazil, Spain,
As part of our strand on queerness and 2019, N/C 12+, Spanish audio with English
religion, You Gotta Have Faith, we bring subtitles/captions
you classic queer rom-com But I’m a Three childhood friends in Buenos Aires
Cheerleader on the 20th anniversary of are stuck in a rut. Gutsy trans performer
its release. Natasha Lyonne - of Orange Tania is disillusioned with her profession,
is the New Black and Russian Doll fame club kid Pedro can only connect via
- stars as Megan Bloomsfield, a high dancing, and depressed waitress Daniela
school cheerleader whose strait-laced has given up on finding love. Their lives
friends and family suspect is a lesbian. To are turned upside down when Tania’s
‘cure’ her of her lesbianism, Megan is sent grandmother dies, leaving behind a
to a Christian conversion therapy camp, secret. She lived with an extra-terrestrial
where she defies the rules, meets a series companion and it is now Tania’s duty
of kooky queer characters, embraces to return the creature to its home. The
her sexual orientation, and falls in love. three set out across the countryside
Other notable cast members include Clea of Argentina on a journey that will test
DuVall, Michelle Williams, and RuPaul. their faith in themselves and one another.
Told through a mixture of magic and
sobering realism, this poetic fable is an
examination of selfhood, friendship, and
what it means to be ‘other.’
With an introduction by Argentinean
comedian and translator, AB Silvera.
Book online for all events at www.SQIFF.org 14Friday 4 October
Workshop: Documentary Kattumaram
Filmmaking with Joanna Reposi CCA Cinema, 12pm (73m), Swarnavel
Garibaldi Eswaran, India, 2018, N/C 12+, Tamil audio
with English subtitles/captions
CCA UWS Room, 10am-1pm, ages 18+,
FREE Kattumaram depicts the Tsunami-
affected lives of middle-aged Singaram
In this unique filmmaker workshop,
and his orphaned niece Anandhi and
Chilean director, journalist, visual artist,
nephew Mani. Singaram works hard as a
and teacher, Joanna Reposi Garibaldi,
fisherman to provide for his family and
will give an insight into the making of her
tries to arrange a groom for his niece,
documentary feature, Lemebel (2019).
who rejects all proposed alliances.
Joanna uses countless slides and video
Anandhi instead falls for Kavita, a visiting
clips to shape a multi-layered portrait of
photographer teaching alongside her at
Pedro Lemebel - a contemporary artist
the local school. As patriarchal Singaram
in Pinochet’s dictatorial Chile who was a
comes to terms with his niece’s sexuality,
pioneer of the queer movement in Latin
he is ostracised by his community
America. Joanna will show short excerpts
because of her transgression. Dealing
of her work and give feedback on your
with his deflated ego, he bonds with
own projects in development. Lemebel
the village barber and trans woman,
will be screening as part of the Festival
Alankaram. Kattumaram shows the
at Glasgow Film Theatre on Sunday 6
predicament of people in a conservative
October (see page 32).
society which offers warmth so long as
Free with limited places available. To book its traditions are adhered to but turns
and apply for your project to receive cold and violent when they are broken.
feedback, please go to www.sqiff.org.
Sponsored by Scottish Documentary
Institute.
15 Tickets FREE / £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 See www.sqiff.org/ticketingFriday 4 October
See Me Proud presents: Mental SQIFF Shorts: Queer Spaces
Health Shorts CCA Cinema, 3pm (72m), Various
CCA Theatre, 12.30pm (57m), Various directors, N/C 12+, English, French,
directors, N/C 15+, English and Chinese and Hindi audio with English subtitles/
audio with English subtitles/captions captions
We know that mental health issues How does queer visibility transform
disproportionately affect LGBTQIA+ physical and symbolic space? What
individuals and communities, who often roles do specific spaces have in altering
experience difficulties in accessing the way that we navigate and represent
support. To create space for discussion ourselves in public? Why are alternatives
and representation of these topics, to heteronormative space important
we’ve curated a collection of insightful for our communities? In this collection
and powerful shorts in partnership of shorts, we explore what ‘home’ and
with See Me Proud. Topics covered ‘public space’ means to the LGBTQIA+
include depression, anxiety, loneliness, communities of Paris; join a young trans
irrational thoughts, living with bipolar man as he navigates gendered space on
disorder, medication, and queerphobia the Delhi metro; and follow the campaign
encountered whilst obtaining treatment. to save one of London’s most iconic
The films incorporate a diversity of queer spaces, the Joiner’s Arms.
identities and styles, including animation,
experimental, documentary, and sci-fi.
Followed by a discussion on themes
raised in the films with See Me Proud.
With refreshments sponsored by Clever
Kombucha.
Book online for all events at www.SQIFF.org 16Friday 4 October
SX presents: What Brings You Talk: Queering the Small Screen
On Here? CCA Clubroom, 3.30-5pm, ages 18+
CCA Theatre, 3.15pm (56m), Various Where cinema is falling behind in queer
directors, N/C 15+, English audio with representation, television is making
English subtitles/captions leaps and bounds: in 2018, a GLAAD
Filmmaker and poet Ross Wilcock survey showed a record-high percentage
presents films focusing on the of queer characters on broadcast and
experiences of gay men with online streaming television. Zoë Shacklock,
dating. A history of gay sex and cruising Associate Lecturer in Film Studies at the
from the 70s to the internet takeover of University of St Andrews, gives a talk on
today. Dissatisfaction with emotionless the surge in representations of queer
encounters and the yearning for identity, desire, and sex on contemporary
something more. Meeting up with men TV. What kinds of queer stories and
online as a way of expressing your bodies do we see on our screens? Is there
queerness when you’re not out. The something about television making it
sometimes all-consuming obsession particularly suited to exploring queer
of people with their phones. Grindr, sexuality? Drawing from examples like
swiping left, hooking up, insecurities, Sense8, American Gods, Pose, Black Mirror,
getting tested, and a bit of hot sex are all Special, and Gentleman Jack, topics will
contained in this challenging selection. include presentation of explicit queer sex
and how TV queerness intersects with
Curated by Ross Wilcock, who will host
race and disability.
a discussion after the screening with
director Sean McInally.
In partnership with SX, Sex Health
Wellbeing for Gay & Bisexual Men
provided by Waverley Care.
17 Tickets FREE / £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 See www.sqiff.org/ticketingFriday 4 October
Talk: Luke+Jack present: Moroni for President
Accessible Toys CCA Theatre, 6.30pm (82m), Saila
CCA Cinema, 6-7.30pm, ages 18+ Huusko, Jasper Rischen, USA, 2018,
N/C 15+, English and Navajo audio with
Scotland’s leading sex toy retailer, English subtitles/captions
Luke+Jack, explores toys and kink
The Navajo Nation is the largest Native
paraphernalia designed to be accessible
American reservation in the United
to D/deaf and Disabled consumers.
States. Every four years, the Navajo tribe
Award-winning erotica author and
elects its president, whom is considered
inventor of the Ruby Glow ride on
to be the most powerful Native American
vibrator, Tabitha Rayne, will discuss the
in the country. In the midst of a frenzied
power of sensuality, pleasure, and sexual
electoral campaign, Moroni for President
empowerment, and creation of easy to
follows Moroni Benally, an underdog
use sex toys to help enable this. Sex
with radical ideas who is angry about
blogger and author of filth, feminism, and
lack of social progress in the reservation
funny stuff, Girl on the Net, will focus on
he grew up in. As the election unfolds,
audio porn - turning sexy stories into
the film delves into Moroni’s layered
audio recordings to make erotica more
identity as a Mormon and gay Navajo
accessible. Luke+Jack founders, Drew
man, along the way expanding to include
Harvey Bigglestone and Ian Diamond,
LGBTQ+ characters campaigning for other
will also host an open discussion with
candidates.
producer and filmmaker, Claire Maguire,
as someone who is directly impacted by Screening as part of our strand on
these decisions, on the (harsh and hopeful) queerness and religion, You Gotta Have
realities of encouraging other sex shops, Faith.
designers, and suppliers of sex toys to
truly provide sexual pleasure for all.
Book online for all events at www.SQIFF.org 1802 Wednesday
12.30pm SQIFF Shorts: Intimacies
CCA Cinema, (76m), N/C 12+
3pm Norfolk Trans Youth: Respecting &
Understanding Differences
CCA Cinema, (75m), N/C 12+
3.30pm LUX Scotland presents: where did we
land + Fi Dem I & II
CCA Theatre, (35m), N/C 12+
7pm SQIFF 2019 Opening Night Shorts
CCA Theatre, (65m), N/C 12+
03 Thursday
12pm SQIFF Shorts: Luv Sucks
CCA Cinema, (74m), N/C 15+
12.30pm Queen of Lapa
CCA Theatre, (74m), N/C 15+
3pm SQIFF Shorts: Come Out Fighting
CCA Cinema, (69m), N/C 15+
3.30pm Birds of the Borderlands
CCA Theatre, (93m), N/C 15+
5.30-7.30pm VR & Interactive Exhibition
Glasgow Women’s Library, N/C 12+
6-8pm Workshop: DOCMA Filmmaking Challenge
CCA Clubroom, ages 15+
6.15pm LEAP Sports Scotland presents: Man Made
CCA Cinema, (109m), N/C 15+
6.30pm Black History Month: Fabulous +
Father Figure
CCA Theatre, (71m), N/C 15+
199pm But I’m a Cheerleader
CCA Theatre, (89m), 15
9.30pm Brief Story from the Green Planet
CCA Cinema, (75m), N/C 12+
Friday 04
10am-1pm Workshop: Documentary Filmmaking with
Joanna Reposi Garibaldi
CCA UWS Room, ages 18+
12pm Kattumaram
CCA Cinema, (73m), N/C 12+
12.30pm See Me Proud presents: Mental Health Shorts
CCA Theatre, (57m), N/C 15+
3pm SQIFF Shorts: Queer Spaces
CCA Cinema, (72m), N/C 12+
3.15pm SX presents: What Brings You On Here?
CCA Theatre, (56m), N/C 15+
3.30-5pm Talk: Queering the Small Screen
CCA Clubroom, ages 18+
6-7.30pm Talk: Luke+Jack present: Accessible Toys
CCA Cinema, ages 18+
6.30pm Moroni for President
CCA Theatre, (82m), N/C 15+
9pm From Zero to I Love You
CCA Cinema, (102m), N/C 15+
9.15pm Luke+Jack present: Sexxxy Beasts and
Wheelchairs
CCA Theatre, (58m), N/C 18+
11pm-3am Party: Sippin T & ISHWAQ
The Art School, ages 18+
2005 Saturday
12pm A Girl’s Band
CCA Cinema, (83m), N/C 12+
12.30pm SQIFF Shorts: Queer Islam with Hidayah
CCA Theatre, (74m), N/C 12+
3pm Transfinite
CCA Cinema, (70m), N/C 15+
3.15pm SQIFF Shorts: Queer Scotland
CCA Theatre, (86m), N/C 15+
3.30pm A Dog Barking at the Moon
Glasgow Film Theatre, (107m), N/C 15+
5-6pm Filmmaker Social
CCA Saramago Terrace Bar, ages 18+
6.15pm Cassandro, the Exotico!
CCA Cinema, (70m), N/C 15+
6.30-8pm Luke+Jack present: Unicorns’ Den Film Pitch
CCA Theatre, ages 18+
7pm Stonewall Scotland presents: Before Stonewall
The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema, (88m), 12
9pm SQIFF Shorts: Some Like it Rough
CCA Cinema, (82m), N/C 18+
9.15pm Pity Party Film Club presents: Evil Come, Evil Go
CCA Theatre, (73m), N/C 18+
10pm-Late WERX @ Civic House Glasgow
Civic House, ages 18+
21Sunday 06
12.15pm Rainbow Families presents: Beauty and
the Beast Singalong
CCA Cinema, (129m), PG
12.30pm SQIFF Shorts: You Gotta Have Faith
CCA Theatre, (74m), N/C 12+
2-4pm Workshop: Sound for Screen with Seamus
Stewart-Skinner
CCA Clubroom, ages 15+
2.45pm Lemebel
Glasgow Film Theatre, (96m), N/C 15+
3pm Kat Lindner Tribute: Tomboy
CCA Theatre, (82m), U
3.15pm No Box for Me. An Intersex Story
CCA Cinema, (58m), N/C 12+
5-6.30pm QWPS presents: We Were Always Crazy,
Freely Singing Queers
Category Is Books, ages 15+
5-6pm DOCMA screening
CCA Clubroom, N/C 12+
5.15-6.15pm LGBT Health & Wellbeing Community Filmmaking
CCA Cinema, N/C 12+
5.30pm Vision Portraits
CCA Theatre, (78m), N/C 12+
7.45pm We Are Parable presents: Dirty Computer:
An Emotion Picture by Janelle Monae
CCA Theatre, (49m), N/C 12+
8pm SQIFF Shorts: Gross Out
CCA Cinema, (59m), N/C 18+
22Friday 4 October
From Zero to I Love You Luke+Jack present: Sexxxy
CCA Cinema, 9pm (102m), Doug Beasts and Wheelchairs
Spearman, USA, 2019, N/C 15+, English CCA Theatre, 9.15pm (58m), Various
audio with English subtitles/captions directors, N/C 18+, English audio with
This captivating relationship comedy English subtitles/captions
begins when Peter bumps into handsome How we are (un)represented as Deaf and
but married Jack in a gay bar. They begin Disabled people has a huge impact on
a passionate affair and Peter woes the our lives. Exploring such representation,
fact he always seems to end up with we take a look at queer porn made by
married men, a scenario bringing its and about Deaf and Disabled queer
own special set of tensions. Gossip, people. With work by DIY queer filmmaker
heartbreak, and coincidence play their and activist, Loree Erickson, and self-
part and eventually Peter is forced to described “bad ass, fat ass, Jew, dyke
admit that he needs something to change amputee,” Nomy Lamm. Also featuring
in order to maintain self-respect. He films by Morty Diamond, Nikki Silver, and
attempts to face head on the challenges Pandora Blake with Deaf and Disabled
of finding and keeping love in the big performers taking control of their
city that is Philadelphia. An emotionally own narratives. Join us for everyday
engaging drama with a sophisticated and ableism crossed with seductive images
original approach to bisexuality and the of disability; pervy, polyamorous BDSM;
turbulence of relationships. sexy nurse roleplay; even sexxxier
Director Doug Spearman will join us after wheelchairs; and fat-bodied, amputee
the screening for a Q&A. eroticism.
Filmmaker Loree Erickson will join us
after the screening for a Q&A.
23 Tickets FREE / £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 See www.sqiff.org/ticketingFriday 4 October
Party: Sippin T & ISHWAQ There will be a separate Quiet Space
The Art School, 11pm-3am, ages 18+ within the venue on the night. Strobe
lights will not be used. The Art School
Celebrate SQIFF 2019 at The Art School
has a lift access to all floors. Gender
for the official afterparty! Joining us on
neutral toilets are located in the
the night will be Sippin T aka Tia Simon-
basement. Accessible toilets are located
Campbell, DJ and co-founder of club
on two floors (basement and second
night and curatorial collective BBZ (Bold
floor). Remember you can get in touch via
Brazen Zamis), alongside Glasgow-based
access@sqiff.org for any other access
babe ISHWAQ and some very special
needs.
performances!
Book online for all events at www.SQIFF.org 24Saturday 5 October
A Girl’s Band SQIFF Shorts: Queer Islam with
CCA Cinema, 12pm (83m), Marilina Hidayah
Giménez, Argentina, 2018, N/C 12+, CCA Theatre, 12.30pm (74m), Various
Spanish, Italian, and English audio with directors, N/C 12+, English and Arabic
English subtitles/captions audio with English subtitles/captions
From 80s punk to modern day synth pop, A series of shorts made over several
rocking Argentinian queer women artists decades following queer Muslim
are chronicled in A Girl’s Band by bassist characters as they navigate familial
turned filmmaker, Marilina Giménez. Her relationships, romantic love, and their
band YiLet broke up long ago but Giménez careers. A budding filmmaker collaborates
still has access to dozens of musicians with his conservative Muslim father on
who are ready to speak their truths about a film about an iconic Muslim actor. The
partying on the road, sexual harassment, love between a disabled Muslim father
and the recognised truth that any men in and his queer son is tested when love is
‘girl bands’ ruin the whole vibe. Veteran pitted against religion. Two brothers stand
bands like The She-Devils get the mosh by each other in the face of adversity.
pits going, while newcomers Chocolate An Arab American man learns how to
Remix and Miss Bolivia reinvent reggaeton love again post-heartbreak. And a rising
and pop. These women also double as martial arts star tries to hides her identity
badass activists fighting for safe and legal from her family and her small American
abortions whilst being determined to make town when under the spotlight.
an indelible mark on the stomping girl-led
music scene in Argentina. Join us for a discussion after the
screening with members of LGBTQIA+
In association with Girls Rock Glasgow Muslim charity Hidayah. Part of our
with an introduction by Sarah Glass from strand on queerness and religion, You
band The Fnords. Gotta Have Faith.
25 Tickets FREE / £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 See www.sqiff.org/ticketingSaturday 5 October
Transfinite SQIFF Shorts: Queer Scotland
CCA Cinema, 3pm (70m), Neelu Bhuman, CCA Theatre, 3.15pm (86m), Various
USA, UK, India, 2019, N/C 15+, English, directors, N/C 15+, English audio and BSL
Navajo, Swahili, Spanish, Asura (in with English subtitles/captions
Japanese), and Tagalog audio with English We present a round-up of excellent
subtitles/captions
new queer filmmaking produced within
Transfinite is a sci-fi omnibus feature Scotland. We welcome the return of
film by Neelu Bhuman composed of filmmakers who’ve screened at SQIFF
seven standalone short stories where before including Michael Lee Richardson,
supernatural trans and queer people Wei Zhang, Siri Rødnes, Eleanor Capaldi,
from various cultures use their powers and Natasha Lall, and are excited by a
to protect, love, teach, fight, and thrive. host of new names bringing impressive
Most of us have been in situations where work packed with stylistic invention
we feel completely powerless and deeply and stimulating ideas. Gender roles in
frustrated with the unfairness of it all. ballet, a queer reimagining of a working
Sometimes we have lost control of life men’s club, sending naked pics via dating
and sometimes we find a way to use our apps, Chinese mythology and human
rage, resentment, and frustrations to binaries, trans masculinity, BSL poetry,
grow a beautiful garden. In Transfinite, LGBT people in the asylum system, and
the protagonists, like smooth warriors, more are explored in our Queer Scotland
choose to find that inner power and use it programme.
to transform undesirable situations into
We hope to be joined by a number of the
desirable ones in a snap.
filmmakers for a Q&A. With a cash prize
Screening with Tomgirl (10m), in which a for Best Scottish Short sponsored by
young Filipino boy in Australia gets an Gender Studies at University of Stirling in
enchanting crash-course in his homeland memory of Kat Lindner.
culture.
Book online for all events at www.SQIFF.org 26Saturday 5 October
A Dog Barking at the Moon Filmmaker Social
Glasgow Film Theatre, 3.30pm (107m), CCA Saramago Terrace Bar, 5-6pm, ages
Zi Xiang, China, Spain, 2019, N/C 15+, 18+, FREE
Mandarin and English audio with English Are you queer filmmaker working in
subtitles/captions
Scotland or beyond? Come and join us
In director Zi Xiang’s exceptional feature for some networking, schmoozing, and
debut - a Teddy Jury award-winner at boozing (non-alcoholic options also
the Berlin Film Festival - decades of open available).
secrets and resentment create chaos
A chance to meet others who are
within a Chinese family. When she brings
LGBTQIA+ and interested or already
her white western boyfriend for a visit
working in film and related media. Share
to China, pregnant Huang Xiaoyu gets
ideas, discuss your projects, or just hang
caught up in her parent’s ongoing feud.
out and have a nice time.
Her father’s gay affairs and her worn-
out mother’s seduction by a predatory In case anyone is anxious or nervous
cult bring matters to a crescendo as the about coming along to this by
narrative jumps cleverly between past themselves, please feel welcome to get in
and present. Zi Xiang expertly analyses touch via info@sqiff.org and someone can
repression which is woven into society meet you beforehand. A BSL interpreter
and causes unhappiness to be passed will be available at the event.
down across generations.
27 Tickets FREE / £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 See www.sqiff.org/ticketingSaturday 5 October
Cassandro, the Exotico! Luke+Jack present: Unicorns’
CCA Cinema, 6.15pm (70m), Marie Losier, Den Film Pitch
France, 2018, N/C 15+, English and CCA Theatre, 6.30-8pm, ages 18+
Spanish audio with English subtitles/
captions We are delighted to present SQIFF’s
first film pitching session supported by
Cassandro is a well-known lucha libre
Glasgow’s queer-friendly erotic boutique,
wrestler known for his extravagant
Luke+Jack. We invite filmmakers to enter
gayness and equally spectacular
the Unicorns’ Den and pitch their short
wrestling moves. Shot on 16mm over
film project on the theme of Queer Desire.
the course of 5 years, Marie Losier’s film
The winner - adjudicated by our panel of
follows a champion coming to terms
top Unicorns alongside an audience vote
with his increasingly ailing body. We
- will receive £500 and mentorship from
bear witness to Cassandro’s scars, both
the SQIFF team to bring into being the
mental and physical, his pain contrasting
winning film idea. The resulting movie will
with his flamboyant masks and aerial
be screened at next year’s Festival. The
manoeuvres in the ring. The Mexican
Rules of the Den are: films pitched should
legend struggles to deal with past
be no longer than ten minutes and may
addiction and abuse, which continue to
be of any style as long as they meet the
haunt him. But his joy and strength in
theme, which is open to interpretation.
creating space for his queer self within
Each participant will deliver a five minute
conservative cultural traditions make for
pitch followed by questions from our
a fascinating and invigorating watch.
judges and the audience.
Presented in partnership with Document
To apply to pitch your film, please go to
Human Rights Film Festival. Part of our
www.sqiff.org.
strand Latinx Legends.
Book online for all events at www.SQIFF.org 28Saturday 5 October
Stonewall Scotland presents: SQIFF Shorts: Some Like it Rough
Before Stonewall CCA Cinema, 9pm (82m), Various
The Seamore Neighbourhood Cinema, directors, N/C 18+, English, French,
7pm (88m), Greta Schiller, USA, 1984, Hebrew, and German audio with English
12, English audio with English subtitles/ subtitles/captions
captions We delve into the varied practices of
On June 27 1969, police raided The BDSM and societal attitudes towards
Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York. this age-old erotic preference, which
In a spontaneous show of support and continues to be subject to stigmatisation
frustration, the city’s queer community and censorship. In Lasting Marks, one of
rioted for three nights, an event often sixteen gay men put on trial for taking part
considered the birth of the modern LGBT in consensual sadomasochism in late 80s
Rights Movement. Revealing and often England narrates his experience. Berlin-
humorous, Before Stonewall exposes the based conscious BDSM practitioner,
fascinating decade-by-decade history Caritia, explains her spiritual journey
of homosexuality in America, from 1920s through eroticism and life in Rituals +
Harlem through to World War II and the Worship. In French dramedy, Dressed for
witch hunt trials of the McCarthy era. Pleasure, a young disabled woman seeks
Essential viewing for all those who have a more exhilarating sexual satisfaction.
celebrated their sexuality, or have been Mockumentary No Democracy Here sees a
persecuted because of it. lefty dominatrix employed by right-wing
Israeli men to force them into recanting
In partnership with Stonewall Scotland,
their politics. The programme concludes
working to ensure LGBT communities
with super hot non-binary, lesbian action
here and abroad are Accepted Without
with a punk boidyke given the rough-
Exception.
tender treatment in Driven.
#ComeOutForLGBT
29 Tickets FREE / £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 See www.sqiff.org/ticketingSaturday 5 October
Pity Party Film Club presents: WERX @ Civic House Glasgow
Evil Come, Evil Go Civic House, 10pm-late, ages 18+
CCA Theatre, 9.15pm (73m), Dir. Walt Introducing WERX, a collaboration
Davis, 1972, N/C 18+, English audio with between Vogue Scotland X SQIFF and
English subtitles/captions Glasgow’s own club night by and for the
Pity Party Film Club presents a rare ballroom scene. Get yourself ready to
screening of Walt Davis’ lesbian dress to the 10s and vogue down with
sexploitation opus Evil Come, Evil Go. some of our best local DJs with a mix of
Sister Sarah Jane (Cleo O’Hara) is Ballroom beats, r’n’b, hip-hop, afrobeats.
hellbent on ridding the world of evil,
This night is open to folx from all
sex-obsessed men. Taking to the streets
backgrounds, experiences, sexualities,
of Los Angeles, she quickly befriends
and identities and celebrates and
a gullible young woman and the two
prioritises the QTIPOC community. There
embark on a mad, sex-filled killing spree.
will be limited tickets available in advance
Prior to the film, two of Glasgow’s most with the remainder on the door.
outrageous drag artists, SHREK 666 and
Vogue Scotland is a community and
Puke, will be teaming up for a thrilling
platform for the underground House Ball
performance exploring religion in their
scene in Scotland.
own irreverent way.
If you have any questions or want to
Part of our strand on queerness and
get involved with any training sessions
religion, You Gotta Have Faith.
please reach out on our facebook page
@ Vogue Scotland.
Book online for all events at www.SQIFF.org 30SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER
Rainbow Families presents: SQIFF Shorts: You Gotta Have
Beauty and the Beast Singalong Faith
CCA Cinema, 12.15pm (129m), Bill Condon, CCA Theatre, 12.30pm (74m), Various
USA, 2017, PG, English audio with English directors, N/C 12+, English, Hebrew,
subtitles/captions/lyrics and Nepali audio with English subtitles/
Sing along with Emmas Watson and captions
Thompson and Ewan McGregor in Short films exploring what it means
this romantic fairytale with a queer to have faith as a queer person today.
twist. Belle, a bright, beautiful, and A seemingly pious Hasidic man living
independent young woman, is taken a secret double life faces a challenge
prisoner by a beast in its castle. Despite when his two worlds collide. A chaplain
her fears, she befriends the castle’s from Cheshire sets up a helpline for
enchanted staff and learns to look gay farmers and is inundated with calls.
beyond the beast’s exterior, allowing LGBTQIA+ people in Nepal use a Hindu
her to recognise the kind heart and festival as a medium to appear in public.
soul of the true prince that hides on the Plus more compelling stories in this
inside. Come along and celebrate this captivating selection.
“tale as old as time” - featuring Disney’s Join us for a discussion after the
first openly gay character, Josh Gad as screening with playwright and author
Le Fou. of The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen
In partnership with LGBT Health and of Heaven, Jo Clifford, LGBTQIA+ Muslim
Wellbeing’s Rainbow Families Project, charity Imaan, and Rev. Jane Clarke
which runs events and support for LGBTQ from Glasgow’s LGBT+ Metropolitan
families in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Community Churches. Part of our strand
on queerness and religion, You Gotta
Have Faith.
31 Tickets FREE / £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 See www.sqiff.org/ticketingSUNDAY 6 OCTOBER
Workshop: Sound for Screen with Lemebel
Seamus Stewart-Skinner Glasgow Film Theatre, 2.45pm (96m),
CCA Clubroom, 2-4pm, ages 15+ Joanna Reposi Garibaldi, Chile, Colombia,
2019, N/C 15+, Spanish audio with English
Join Seamus Stewart-Skinner as he subtitles/captions
delivers a Sound Department 101 for
Pedro Lemebel’s sharp, poetic texts and
beginners, combining a brief history
provocative performances make him
of sound in cinema with hands on
one of South America’s most significant
teaching of how sound is captured
artists. Under Pinochet’s dictatorship
on set. Explore and be inspired by the
in Chile, Lemebel expressed things most
ingenuity of early sound designers
wouldn’t dare. For the country’s left-
who created the language of sound in
wing opposition, his queerness made him
modern cinema. Then get to grips with
an awkward figure as he exposed their
the basics of location sound recording
machismo and homophobia. Lemebel
and boom operating, testing your skills
embodied an uncomfortable gay identity
in a practical environment. Use industry
and fiercely criticised the wish of some
standard equipment and learn how to
queer people to assimilate. Lemebel uses
run your own sound department for
slides and video clips to shape an essay-
independent film. Give yourself a running
like memento, enhanced with intimate
start to gaining entry to the sound
interviews, to portray a tireless fighter
department on commercial TV and film
who continued to speak out until the end
sets. You will leave with a new or renewed
of his life.
passion for cinema sound and the skills
to get yourself started. Joanna Reposi Garibaldi will join us
for a Q&A after the screening. Kindly
sponsored by Scottish Documentary
Institute. Part of our strand Latinx
Legends.
Book online for all events at www.SQIFF.org 32SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER
Kat Lindner Tribute: Tomboy No Box for Me. An Intersex Story
CCA Theatre, 3pm (82m), Celine Sciamma, CCA Cinema, 3.15pm (58m), Floriane
France, 2011, U, French audio with English Devigne, France, Switzerland, 2018, N/C
subtitles/captions 12+, French audio with English subtitles/
French queer filmmaker Celine Sciamma’s captions
naturalistic drama about childhood A heartfelt, poetic documentary
gender identity is touching, painful, and focusing on four young adults who -
humorous all at once. Ten-year-old like an estimated 0.5 to 1.7 percent
Laure has moved with her family to a of people - were born with variations
new neighbourhood. The local kids take in their sex characteristics making it
her for a boy and instead of correcting difficult for Western medicine to impose
them, Laure introduces herself as Mikael classifications on them. The intersex
and starts living a double life, with her people in No Box for Me seek to reclaim
parents unaware of her secret and her their bodies and explore their identities.
young sister persuaded to play along. They reveal the error in a binary
understanding of gender and highlight
Screening in celebration of Festival co-
the physical and psychological harm
founder Kat Lindner, who passed away
unnecessary medical treatments impose
earlier this year. We screened Tomboy
on children.
at the first ever SQIFF event alongside
an intro from Kat, who also wrote about Screening with A Normal Girl (14m) about
the film in her academic work. We’ll read intersex activist and educator, Pidgeon
out Kat’s original intro and share our Pagonis.
memories of her.
33 Tickets FREE / £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 See www.sqiff.org/ticketingSUNDAY 6 OCTOBER
QWPS presents: We Were Always DOCMA screening
Crazy, Freely Singing Queers CCA Clubroom, 5-6pm, Various directors,
Category Is Books, 5-6.30pm, ages 15+ UK, 2019, N/C 12+, English audio with
English subtitles/captions
To mark the 30th anniversary of the
Following our DOCMA workshop (see
first collection of Scottish lesbian and
page 12) - where participants will take
gay literature, And Thus Will I Freely Sing,
part in creating their own 1-minute
we are bringing together queer writers
documentary as part of a 5-minute
from the original collection and across
documentary film made by 5 filmmakers
later generations for readings and chat.
in 5 different documentary styles - we
Featuring contributors to And Thus and
invite audiences to come and view the
its 1992 follow-up, The Crazy Jig, as well
resulting films. Come and support the
as recently published queer anthology,
filmmakers, who will have created their
We Were Always Here. We will be joined
masterpieces within 48 hours. Also a
by author, activist, and co-founder of
chance to learn more about DOCMA and
Scotland’s original LGBT bookshop,
its mission to encourage and support
Lavender Menace, Sigrid Nielsen, writer
people to have a go and get creative in
and activist, Jane Carnall, and writer
producing documentary work.
and poet, April Hill. The discussion will
be chaired by writer and co-editor of We Screening followed by a Q&A with the
Were Always Here, Ryan Vance. filmmakers.
In partnership with Queer Words Project
Scotland and Category Is Books.
Book online for all events at www.SQIFF.org 34SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER
LGBT Health & Wellbeing Vision Portraits
Community Filmmaking CCA Theatre, 5.30pm (78m), Rodney
CCA Cinema, 5.15-6.15pm, Various Evans, USA, Germany, Canada, 2019, N/C
directors, UK, 2019, N/C 12+, English 12+, English audio with English subtitles/
audio with English subtitles/captions captions
LGBT Health & Wellbeing is a charity Vision Portraits is a vivid exploration by
promoting the health, wellbeing, and filmmaker Rodney Evans illuminating
equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual, the stories of four visually impaired
and transgender people in Scotland artists - photographer John Dugdale,
and providing support, services, and dancer Kayla Hamilton, writer Ryan
information. Two of the organisation’s Knighton, and the filmmaker himself.
groups have recently created Evans contrasts their journeys with his
collectively-made short films, which own personal and professional one as a
we will showcase at this event. Return filmmaker gradually losing his vision. An
to the Closet?, made as a collaboration important film for anyone interested in
with members of LGBT Age, Luminate disability aesthetics, demonstrating how
Festival, and filmmaker Glenda Rome, is blindness and visual impairment bring
a documentary exploring issues around about distinct artistic viewpoints.
care for older LGBT people. Everything Screening with Fashion in the Dark I and
Just Collapsed is an experimental short II (8m) exploring fashion and identity
reflecting on stigma and survival by Tim with people who are visually impaired
Knights in collaboration with participants or blind. Presented in association with
of The LGBT Mental Wellbeing Collective. Royal National Institute of Blind People
Come and watch both movies and join in Scotland. With an introduction by
an open discussion on the process and filmmaker and poet, Ross Wilcock.
value of community filmmaking.
35 Tickets FREE / £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 See www.sqiff.org/ticketingSUNDAY 6 OCTOBER
We Are Parable presents: Dirty SQIFF Shorts: Gross Out
Computer: An Emotion Picture by CCA Cinema, 8pm (59m), Various
Janelle Monae directors, N/C 18+, English and Spanish
audio with English subtitles/captions
CCA Theatre, 7.45pm (49m), Various
directors, N/C 12+, English audio with With supposed tolerance and acceptance
English subtitles/captions of LGBT people in western public life
comes enforced sanitisation and
As part of their season “The Art of the
respectability. Straight society pats
Black Visual Album” We Are Parable
itself on the back for allowing (some of)
partner with SQIFF to present a special
us to get married and feature in shiny
screening of Janelle Monae’s Dirty
corporate advertising but is still repelled
Computer visual album. Set in a dystopian
by our bodies and sex lives. To counter
nightmare, Jane 57821 (Monae) is
the continued suppression of fleshly
subjected to having her memories removed
and carnal appetites and practices, we
or “cleaned,” ones that mainly involve her
went on a hunt for the grossest, most
relationship with Zen (Tessa Thompson). As
yucky films we could find. Featuring
the removal of her thoughts and feelings
experimental musing on why we find our
occurs, we’re taken on a journey to find out
bodies disgusting and scary; some gay
who Jane really is, her emotions displayed
sex-tinged body horror; literal shit in
as songs from Dirty Computer.
a variety of forms; and a performance
Preceded by our Closing Night speeches. involving an empty stomach and a large
After the screening, we invite you to a jar of honey. Please note this programme
listening party where we’ll play Dirty requires resilience for what some
Computer in its entirety with additional would consider stomach-churning and
music from artists who have inspired gruesome imagery.
Monae. This screening is part of the BFI
Musicals nationwide season.
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