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Scottish Queer International Film Festival · 2023

Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2023

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Programme

11 films

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Clotilde

On a planet where reproduction is mandatory in the daily life of its inhabitants, there is an alien who just wishes to pleasure herself.

(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Maria João Lourenço,)

Coming Out Autistic

A short animated documentary hjich explores the experience of telling the world that you are autistic when you also identify as LGBTQ+.

(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Steven Fraser)

Dear Nana

A tribute to the filmmaker's grandmother, who lived in a small, conservative town in North Central Coast, Vietnam.

(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Han Nguyen)

Desire's Exhibition

With the aim of finding Desire, So-and-so performs a ritual to go down in the depths of himself. There he came across an exhibition of Desire's works which have haunted his dreams and non-dreams.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2023; Director: Salmo Pagão)

Junior & The Kid

A sparse retelling of a fictional love affair between an unnamed western cowboy and Nineties baseball superstar and heartthrob Ken Griffey Jr.

(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Dani Wasserman)

Living With It

Perfectionist Lee must adapt to the imperfect reality of living with an illness – brought to life as a chaotic supernatural flatmate: Bug.

(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Holly Summerson; Writer: Holly Summerson)

A Mother's Love For Her Baby

An exploration of the corruption and poor conditions endemic in the Magdalene Laundries and mother and baby homes run by the Catholic Church in Ireland throughout the 20th century.

(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Éiméar McClay, Cat McClay)

Patches

Outcast due to physical differences, a lonely little boy in the 1920's makes an unlikely friend and finds belonging through sacrifice.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2021; Director: Georgie Athanasopoulos,)

The Prince's Dilemma

The animated tale of Prince Philip, who, longing to be with a prince of his own, must decide to follow the traditional tale expected of him or forge his own happily ever after.

(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Devin Rowe)

Where The Mouth Is (Machinima Version)

An animated reconstruction of Oxfordshire as an interactive world outside of time, leaping off from the collections of the public Museum of Oxford.

(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Benjamiin Hall)

White-Haired Witch And Black-Haired Witch

When lightning strikes an alien sea, it results in an accident of birth, a strange journey and a longing for togetherness.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Yini Yang)