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SQIFF is a charity programming accessible LGBTQIA+ film events in Scotland 💖
Est. 2015 ✨
🏳️‍⚧️ SQIFF 2026: 19th-24th Oct 🏳️‍🌈
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For more details, see our website www.sqiff.org.

17/08/2026

There’s still time to join the SQIFF 2026 team! Volunteer applications close this Friday, 21 August at 23:59.

Come volunteer with us! 🌈✨

🔗 Apply via the link in our bio.

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07/08/2026

Our volunteer applications are now open! 🥳

If you’d like to be part of this year’s festival, we’d love to have you on the team.

Applications close at 11:59pm on Friday 21 August.

🔗Apply via the link in our bio.
❔Questions? Send us a DM or email [email protected].

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06/08/2026

Save the date!

SQIFF returns to Glasgow Film Theatre from 19–24 October 2026, celebrating 11 years of q***r cinema, community and connection.

Expect a euphoric programme of q***r cinema, audacious performances, and the premiere of this year’s SATURATE cohort films.

Our full programme will be announced in early September. We can’t wait to see you there. 🌈🎬

Image: Carle Gent and Linda Stupart at SQIFF 2025
Photo: Siobhan Chalmers

Supported by the BFI Audience Projects Fund, Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network) and Screen Scotland, all awarding National Lottery Good Cause funding.

Image: Carle Gent and Linda Stupart at SQIFF 2025
Photo: Siobhan Chalmers

Supported by the BFI Audience Projects Fund, Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network) and Screen Scotland, all awarding National Lottery Good Cause funding.

05/08/2026

🐺 BOUCHRA 🐺

📍Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh Filmhouse Edinburgh
📍Friday 7th August from 6:15-8:15pm

We have a few free community tickets for this screening, if cost is a barrier please email [email protected] for a complimentary ticket 🎟️

Bouchra (35), a q***r Moroccan coyote living in NYC, is wrestling with writer’s block for her first film. As she begins a series of difficult yet long overdue phone calls with her mother, Aicha, in Casablanca, forgotten memories begin to resurface. Balancing the precarity of working as an artist in New York, the rift in her identity between her two homes and an array of friendships and romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning with her mother and herself becomes her path to expression.

With a lived-in granularity and unmistakable visual style, Bouchra, the debut feature from acclaimed visual artists Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki (best known together from their 2020 web series 2 Lizards), is a singular portrait effortlessly towing the line between documentary, visual art and resonant family drama. Deeply felt, surprisingly sexy and formally adventurous, Bennani and Barki’s distinctive debut forges new ground.

This screening of Bouchra will be introduced by the incredible huss ✨

Huss is a Glasgow-based Arab multidisciplinary artist, performer, filmmaker and film programmer. His work explores q***rness, memory and exile, weaving together personal and political narratives that meditate on migration, inherited memory and imagined futures. Working across film, performance, installation and sound, his practice creates spaces for fragmented histories and silenced voices, challenging dominant narratives around Arab and diasporic experiences.

Book tickets in bio 🫶

Access
🌈 Age recommendation of 15.
🌈 English language descriptive subtitles for the films.
🌈 Text on screen provided for the introduction.
🌈 Edinburgh Filmhouse is wheelchair accessible.

Bouchra is being distributed by T A P E and will be in cinemas across the UK from tomorrow 🫶

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24/07/2026

🏳️‍⚧️ SQIFF is inviting proposals to commission a q***r artist based in Scotland to create this year’s festival artwork 🌈 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Fill out the form in our bio by Sunday 2nd August to pitch your ideas for our Artwork! The artwork will be featured throughout the whole festival, on our brochures, posters, merch, social media posts and more. Your design need to have elements to be used on different items such as t-shirts and social media banners, as well as an overall artwork for the festival poster and brochure ✨

The fee for this commission is £1500, and the artwork will need to be completed by Fri 21 August 2026 🎨

We’ll let all applicants know the team’s decision by Wednesday 5 August 2026.

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21/07/2026

Looking to find collaborators, crew, or just more q***r people to talk about film with? Join the Q***r Filmmaker’s Group for an Industry Speed Dating session and get to know other LGBTQIA+ film workers in Scotland!

Location and Time
📍Boardwalk, Glasgow
📍Wednesday 29th July from 6:30-8:30pm

Book your tickets on our website 💞

In classic speed dating fashion, participants will have 5 minutes to connect with another film worker before moving on to the next person. This session can be used to network for an upcoming project, find crew or make connections for future work, or just get more involved in the q***r filmmaking scene in Scotland.

The speed dating session will last an hour and twenty minutes, with a short introduction and half an hour at the end for casual networking.

Bring yourself and an openness to meet new people!

Accessibility:
🌈 BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
🌈 Wheelchair Access.
🌈 We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact [email protected].

If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch by emailing [email protected].

Supported by Screen Scotland ✨

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20/07/2026

We’re looking for trustees to join our beautiful board 🌈✨

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to support Scotland’s q***r film festival as it works towards securing Multi-Year Funding and long-term sustainability through core funding.

SQIFF’s Trustees will play a vital role in ensuring the charity fulfils its core purpose and operates in line with its vision, mission, and values; supporting and challenging the core team to help SQIFF flourish.

As we build our Board of Trustees, we are specifically looking for people with specific knowledge in one or more of the following areas, including strong expertise in charity governance and regulatory compliance:
* Law / legal matters
* HR
* Finance management
* Environmental Sustainability
* Fundraising
* Safeguarding
* PR and branding
* Charity governance and compliance

We aim to appoint 5 Trustees, including one young person and one member/former member of SQIFF’s Q***r Filmmaking Group.

Please find out more about this role and how to apply on our link in bio. Any questions, queries, and comments are welcome at: [email protected]

Application deadline: End of day, Wednesday 5 August

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18/07/2026

We’ve been busy in our filmmaking workshop summer course: SATURATE. All 10 films are now underway after sessions about practical skills in developing a film, the philosophy of q***r filmmaking, and how to storyboard and pitch your film.

We have films from many genres and styles being produced, including a poetic community meditation on how we live in relationship with the buildings around us, and a comedic self help hotline for trouble at work when your job is being a serial killer!

All films will premiere at SQIFF 2026 this October… keep your eyes peeled for more news about that! 👀

30/06/2026

🍿 We are excited to announce another collaboration with the Social Hub for this year’s Pride Hub event. This year we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of a q***r, South Asian classic set right here in Glasgow, Nina’s Heavenly Delights. The film follows Nina’s return to her hometown of Glasgow to save her late father’s struggling curry house. Nina pairs up with childhood friend and chef Lisa to save the business and let’s just say things get a bit ‘spicy’. Expect laughs, bright colours and a celebration of Scottish Asian cuisine.

Alongside this feature we will be screening the short Bhangra Jig also by director Pratibha Parmar. This short film captures the high energy music genre of Bhangra being enjoyed, again, right here in Glasgow.

The films will be followed by a pre-recorded Q&A with and SQIFF curator Nat Lamp. We would love for you to join us for a celebration of the rich culture right here on our doorstep.

Curated by Nat Lall ✨

Book tickets in bio 🫶

Location and Time
📍The Social Hub, Glasgow The Social Hub Glasgow
📍Tuesday 14th July from 6-9pm

Access
🌈 Age recommendation of N/C 16+.
🌈 English language descriptive subtitles for the films and pre-recorded Q&A.
🌈 Text on screen provided for the introduction.
🌈 The Social Hub is wheelchair accessible, with gender neutral toilets.

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12/06/2026

Want to see what the Q***r Filmmakers Group made last month, and help shape what thousands of festival-goers will see this autumn? Join The Q***r Filmmaker’s Group in a creative and practical session making the official festival trailer for the 2026 edition of the Scottish Q***r International Film Festival!

Location and Time
📍Boardwalk, Glasgow
📍Wednesday 17th June from 6:30-8:30pm

Book your tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/sqiff/2216029 💞

Working as a group, we will use this session to brainstorm and come up with ideas for making a short trailer over the course of the month. This session is a casual, fun, and hands-on way to get creative with a group of other q***r filmmakers in Scotland.The completed trailer will be shown before each screening of the 2026 film festival, and will be watched by over 5000 people.

This session will start with special screening of all the completed films made in the SQIFF 48 Hour Film Challenge in the previous month’s Q***r Filmmaker’s Group.

Accessibility:
🌈 BSL-English interpretation for the whole event.
🌈 Wheelchair Access.
🌈 We have an Audience Access Fund for travel costs. If you would like to take this up, please contact [email protected].

If you have any other access needs you would like to discuss with us, please get in touch by emailing [email protected].

Supported by Screen Scotland

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