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Scottish Queer International Film Festival · 2024

Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2024

Scottish Shorts 2

Programme

8 films

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Cowboy

Young trans man Cowboy is run out of his small home town and turns to Glasgow in search of a new beginning. But he is unable to shake the shadows of his past.

(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Luca Kerr)

Femme Disturbance

Femme Disturbance investigates a closeted adolescence, its surrounding family dynamic and the empowering figure of the Action Heroine. To tell these stories the Sisters are interviewed and the Adolescent speaks alongside the Critic. Home movie footage and action heroine performances across Hollywood film and video games are reembodied, cut and collaged.

(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Conor Baird)

Growin' Pains

During a family argument, a teenager flees to the garden for relief, only to find the conflict follows them. Feeling hopeless, they grow into the grass and are swallowed by the ground. They awaken in a subterranean world as a cryptid creature, escaping humanity. What starts as magical escapism becomes a burden as the house and conflict still haunt them.

(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Sammson Orr)

I've Got Something To Tell You

An exploration of queer temporality through the mind of someone realising they are trans.

(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Ben Clery-Hall, Mandy Mcmillan)

Love (Gaol)

A film about all kinds of love within the LGBTQ+ community from folks of North Ayrshire.

(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Giulia Lina Giannetti, Paul Morgan)

Miss Temperance

In Glasgow's alt-queer party scene, a drag artist navigates the night of their return to the stage after being one year sober.

(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Jeremy McClain)

ob-SOUL-1337

An animated short film that uses death and the afterlife to explore our relationship with technology, the duality of our identities online and off and the monetisation of our personal memories of thoughts by Big Tech.

(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Harry Roberts)

Strangers

Two people's worlds collide in a graveyard. One dealing with a near loss, another still harbouring the pain after many years.

(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Klarissa Webster)