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Scottish Queer International Film Festival

6 October – 10 October 2021

Changing The Game
Changing The Game

The seventh annual Scottish Queer International Film Festival will be held at the CCA in Glasgow and will also include online screenings of three programme items. Its features some big name LGBTQ+ films alongside niche works from marginalised filmmakers. There will be a special focus on contemporary queer experience in Asia and Brazil.

We are still adding information to this page and details of some of the films are proving hard to find, so please bear with us and bear in mind that not all the strand listings are complete - if you attend, you'll get to see some surprise films too.

Tickets are priced on a pay-what-you-can basis. All films include English language captions or subtitles and live events will feature live captioning. BSL interpretation will be available throughout. Audio description is available for some of the films. The venue is fully wheelchair accessible.

The festival runs from 6 to 10 October.

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Latest reviews

  • Real
    Review preview for Real

    Real finds humour and warmth in socially awkward situations anyone can relate to.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A tiny film webseries exploring Deafness, love, and the lengths we go to find it. This tiny film follows Lauren as she navigates relationships and connection in a world of complex communication.
  • You Must Everywhere Wander
    Review preview for You Must Everywhere Wander

    There’s a balance of energies here that we rarely see onscreen.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A queer masculine bodyscape where the spices used in Chinese cooking grow as spectacular natural landscapes.
  • A Woman On The Internet
    Review preview for A Woman On The Internet

    What does it mean when a woman cannot control the visual language through which her body is presented?

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A filmic response to Lynn Hershman Leeson’s text, Romancing The Anti-body (1995), exploring the jarring juxtapositions of friction, toxicity, joy and liberation that trans people, queers and femmes experience when playing as their own custom character creations in video game spaces.
  • Birthday Boy
    Review preview for Birthday Boy

    Birthday Boy does an excellent job of picking up on the microaggressions that affect kids in these situations.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A trans boy facing bullying at a girls' school tries to find a refuge in the world of online games.
  • Almost
    Review preview for Almost

    There’s a blatant challenge here to common expectations about the lives of Deaf and hearing-impaired people.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A woman meets the girl of her dreams in a library. Everything seems perfect - almost.
  • Everyman
    Review preview for Everyman

    Jack teases apart aspects of a code in which most of us are fluent but which is almost all learned, cultural.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A personal, visual essay about gender transition.
  • Scars
    Review preview for Scars

    Blending film and animation, this film takes a sidelong look at bodies and what it means to be bodied.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The camera lingers over the faded white scars on a variety of body parts, then black ink animates over the top of them as a voice recounts the power and shame that comes with being a cutter.
  • The Devotions
    Review preview for The Devotions

    Fitzgerald finds numerous ways in which Catholicism and queer culture employ similar tropes to similar ends.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Part biography, part testimonial and part imagined queer heavenly utopia, The Devotions explores the intersection between queerness and Catholicism.
  • You Are A Lesbian Vampire
    Review preview for You Are A Lesbian Vampire

    A satirical look at the experience of navigating relationships within a small dating pool.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A vampire in a prairie city reflects on whether or not she can sustain a successful relationship with her mortal girlfriend.
  • Lone Wolf
    Review preview for Lone Wolf

    Directing with a light touch, January Jones coaxes fresh, natural performances from her stars.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Determined to fit in at a sleepover, 15-year-old Sam ignores cruel taunts from mean girl Blair and her growing feelings for Willow, but she can't ignore the strange things happening to her body.

A–Z of Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2021 reviews