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Scottish Queer International Film Festival · 2017

Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2017

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19 films · 6 reviews

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Atopos, Theatrical Genders (Atopos, Generi Teatranti)

The journey of a 'sui generis' company between theatre and life. The making of a show between truth and fiction. 16 actors and a director engaged in the pursuit of their own identity, beyond the concept of male and female.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2017; Director: Alberto Amoretti; Writer: Alberto Amoretti)

Carlos Jauregui: The Unforgettable Fag

A documentary about Argentina's most famous LGBT rights activist.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2016; Director: Lucas Santa Ana; Writer: Gustavo Pecoraro, Lucas Santa Ana; Stars: Marcelo Ernesto Ferreyra, Gustavo Pecoraro)

Chavela

The life of singer Chavela Vargas.

(Country: US, Spain, Mexico; Year: 2017; Director: Catherine Gund, Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi)

Don't Look At Me That Way (Schau Mich Nicht So An)

A woman embarks on a romantic relationship with her neighbour only to find that it's disrupted by the return of the father of her neighbour's child.

(Country: Germany, Mongolia; Year: 2015; Director: Uisenma Borchu; Writer: Uisenma Borchu; Stars: Josef Bierbichler, Uisenma Borchu, Katja Brenner)

Finding Dory

Review preview for Finding Dory

Balance is the thing and Stanton and MacLane know when to use a well-timed piece of slapstick or visual gag to cut through sentiment.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
The forgetful fish is back.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane; Writer: Andrew Stanton, Victoria Strouse, Bob Peterson; Stars: Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Kate McKinnon, Idris Elba, Bill Hader, Dominic West, Kaitlin Olson, Diane Keaton, Ed O'Neill, Ty Burrell, Eugene Levy, Andrew Stanton, Hayden Rolence, Bennett Dammann, Torbin Xan Bullock)

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Folkbildningsterror

Review preview for Folkbildningsterror

This film is not afraid to take the piss out of itself. Probably.

Jane Fae · 4.5 out of 5
A queer anarchist punk musical about kidnapping a politician and taking him to the zoo.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2014; Director: Lasse Langstrom)

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Fox And His Friends (Faustrecht der Freiheit, Fox, Fist-Fight of Freedom)

Review preview for Fox And His Friends

The quality of the writing, editing, cinematography and everything else is top-notch, but it’s undoubtedly a bleak, hard watch.

Jeff Robson · 4 out of 5
An unemployed young homosexual finds that a lottery win grants him access to a new, but hostile, world. Out to own now on the RW Fassbinder Commemorative Collection: Vol 2.

(Country: West Germany; Year: 1975; Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Stars: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karl-Heinz Bohm, Christiane Maybach)

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Free Cece

A documentary about the case of Cece McDonald, a trans woman jailed after the stabbing of one of a group of men who abused her.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Jacqueline Gares; Stars: Laverne Cox, Cece McDonald)

Hustler White

Reminiscent of Sunset Boulevard, Hustler White transposes the action from the silver screen's old movie backlots to contemporary male prostitution and the porn industry.

(Country: Germany, Canada; Year: 1996; Director: Rick Castro, Bruce La Bruce; Writer: Bruce La Bruce, Rick Castro; Stars: Tony Ward, Bruce La Bruce, Kevin P Scott)

Last Men Standing

A documentary about the lives of eight men in San Francisco who never expected to survive being diagnosed as HIV positive.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Erin Brethauer, Timothy Hussin)

Man For A Day

Gender activist Diane Torr’s worldwide appearances and workshops are now legendary. For the past thirty years, the focus of this performance artist’s work has been an exploration of the theoretical, artistic as well as the practical aspects of gender identity. Katarina Peters’ documentary observes a Diane Torr workshop in Berlin in which a group of open-minded women came together to discover the secrets of masculinity. What makes a man a man and a woman a woman? Precisely when and where is gender identity formatted? How much is nature and how much nurture? Each of Torr’s workshops represents an open-ended laboratory experiment in social behaviour in which the question is posed: is it possible to deliberately play out different role models and create a space in which to transgress genuine masculine or feminine characteristics?

(Country: Germany / UK / Finland; Year: 2012; Director: Katarina Peters; Writer: Katarina Peters)

The Misandrists

Review preview for The Misandrists

Something like a cross between Carry On Solanas! and The Beguiled

Jane Fae · 4 out of 5
A radical female ‘army of lovers’ is preparing itself to fight for a world without men.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Bruce La Bruce; Writer: Bruce La Bruce; Stars: Susanne Sachße, Viva Ruiz, Kembra Pfahler, Caprice Crawford, Grete Gehrke, Kita Updike, Victoire Laly, Olivia Kundisch, Lina Bembe, Til Schindler, Dominik Hermanns)

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Play The Devil

Review preview for Play The Devil

Jones is impressive in a film that depends largely on his performance.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A gifted and struggling young man becomes the object of intrigue for an older, well-meaning businessman until their worlds collide at Carnival.

(Country: Trinidad and Tobago; Year: 2016; Director: Maria Govan; Writer: Maria Govan; Stars: Petrice Jones, Melanie Archer, Blair Cameron)

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The Polymath, Or The Life And Opinions Of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman

A documentary portrait of the celebrated writer and thinker.

(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Fred Barney Taylor; Stars: Samuel R Delany)

She Must Be Seeing Things

An attorney becomes convinced that her filmmaker girlfriend is having a secret affair with a man.

(Year: 1987; Director: Sheila McLaughlin; Stars: Sheila Dabney, Lois Weaver)

The Untold Tales Of Armistead Maupin

A documentary about the life and works of the famous writer.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Jennifer M Kroot)

Who Will Fuck Daddy?

An experimental exploration of contemporary sexual mores in Sweden.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2017; Director: Lasse Langstrom)

A Womb Of Their Own

Review preview for A Womb Of Their Own

This is a film about solutions and a film that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Six different masculine-identified people discuss their pregnancies and chest-feeding experiences.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Cyn Lubow)

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Women Who Kill

Morgan and Jean work well together as true crime podcasters because they didn’t work well, at all, as a couple. When Morgan strikes up a new relationship with the mysterious Simone, their shared interest turns into suspicion, paranoia, and fear.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Ingrid Jungermann; Writer: Ingrid Jungermann; Stars: Annette O'Toole, Sheila Vand, Deborah Rush, Grace Rex, Francis Benhamou, Tami Sagher, Shannon Patricia O'Neill, Rodrigo Lopresti, Terence Nance, Ingrid Jungermann, Doug Moe, Ann Carr, Keisha Zollar, Anna Orlova, Ngozi Jane Anyanwu)