Posters, Brochures, T-shirts, Totes and every single festival trailer thus far. This exhibition gives you a chance to step into the SQIFF archive and reminisce on fabulous festivals past. You’ll get a chance to look at our merch over the years, read about our very first festival and admire how much our festival has […]
Scottish Shorts 2 moves across Edinburgh summers, dinner tables, supermarket bins, political stages and the search for beauty in a new home. These films look at what it means to be shut out, misunderstood or left behind, but also at the strange and inventive ways people make space for themselves. Relationships begin to slip, […]
**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening.** Lok, a 34-year-old filmmaker from Macau, has been drifting through Hong Kong’s film industry. Although she has already directed a feature film, her life remains unstable, her next project has stalled, and her […]
Botox, Revolax, Sculptra, Hyaron and Juvederm: all sorts of products, perhaps not all entirely legal, sell like hot cakes in Bouba’s Lebanese beauty salon. Skilfully, though not always gently, she jabs a constant stream of clients with all kinds of injectables to temporarily reduce their facial wrinkles and frown lines. Director Omar Mismar films […]
Adam’s Apple is an intimate, collaborative documentary told through the dual perspectives of Adam, a transgender teen, and his mother, visual artist Amy Jenkins, that offers an authentic and tender counterpoint to the hostility facing trans youth today. Adam’s journey balances the milestones of gender transition with the rhythms of adolescence. As Adam asserts […]
Are you a queer filmmaker based in Scotland or further afield? Please join us for an evening of networking, accompanied by refreshments and fabulous company. Non-alcoholic beverages will also be available. Whether you’re already working in film and related media, just starting out or simply interested in meeting other LGBTQIA+ creatives, we’d love to […]
The past does not stay where we leave it. It lingers in bodies, landscapes, old recordings, unfinished love stories and places that may no longer welcome us back. These films return to what has been lost: a lover in Cairo, lives cut short before memories could fully form, a vanished queer community, a homeland […]
We are delighted to announce that SQIFF’s Craft Fair is returning! Featuring a diverse range of local queer artists and creatives, the fair will have something for everyone. Come along to meet some of Glasgow’s fantastic local sellers, discover new work, and pick up a SQIFF 2026 souvenir. Curated by Nat Lall and Huss. […]
**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening.** We welcome you back for another year of Animation Now. This popular screening is, once again, bringing you the latest in contemporary animation. Expect groundbreaking and immersive worldbuilding that is extremely impressive on […]
**Please note this event is now sold out – we may be able to release more tickets nearer the screening.** Enchanted ecologies include performance-based and experimental moving image works by queer and trans visual artists from the Brazilian Amazon. Together, these films approach nature as a living being and highlight the role of […]
