This event is now sold out. To be added to the wait list, please contact elle@edinburghartfestival.
Join EAF, Rhubaba, and SQIFF (Scottish Queer International Film Festival) for an evening of queer short film screenings curated by Nat Lall. The evening will consist of a screening of short films, a panel discussion with Scottish QTIPOC filmmakers and sharing of food.
All of the short films are taken from the SQIFF 2024 programme and with this we aim to bring a bit of the queer magic we experienced in Glasgow to Edinburgh. The selected films include works from our Scottish Shorts, Sci-Fi Meets Reality, Queer Asia, ★,。·::·゚☆ “The Real Internet Is Inside You” ·゚✧*:·゚✧ and Drag & Performance Through Censorship events. The selection highlights a range of techniques and genres in queer filmmaking including digital animation, text-based film, collage and live-action. It also explores a diverse range of topics such as young trans girlhood, intimate friendships between men of colour and medical drag-satire.
All of the selected films are either directed by and/or have a central focus on QTIPOC. This event aims to spotlight and celebrate queer people of colour in film. SQIFF will explore filmmaking techniques, community initiatives and future hopes for people of colour in queer film with a panel discussion after the screenings, ending the event by chatting over food and drink provided by EAF.
Nat Lall is a Glasgow-based film curator, known for their work with the Scottish Queer International Film Festival. Nat is also an artist and DJ. Notable works include the film Pink Excavation (2018) and their musical alias is DJ FLUFFIE.
- Screening Information
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3 min
A Float, Dir. Isabel Barfod, 2023, United Kingdom
A Float explores subtle modes of refusal through the lens of a Black Queer swimmer in a hostile environment. Set in a Victorian era public swimming pool, A Float follows our protagonist as they access alternate realities, speculated futures and enact small acts of revenge.
Content Notes: Depiction of racism
Access Notes: Contains flashing imagery -
14 min
Dr. XYZ: A Medical Drag Transthology, Dir. El Jones, 2023, United Kingdom
Dr. XYZ is a community-made trans+ healthcare training film and ethnofiction. It is an exercise in queering the public information film genre, shot in 16mm. The film weaves ethnographic healthcare accounts from Birmingham’s trans+ community with moments of drag-satire re-enactment to depict a collective vision of the UK’s healthcare system.
Content notes: Discussion of suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, mental health issues, medical neglect within NHS, transphobia, ableism, racism, passing culture, self-medicating, gender dysphoria, medical waiting lists, explicit language. Depiction of animated genitalia.
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11 min
Scrapped Fabric, Dir. Jake Muñoz Consing, 2024, Philippines
Fearing her mother’s disapproval, a teenage trans girl secretly sews a prom dress from her mother’s scrap fabric (“retaso”).
Content notes: Discussion of transphobia.
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15 minutes
Farewell, Dir. Soham Kundu, 2024, United Kingdom
Two friends: one with a broken heart, the other on the brink of marriage. Together they set out on a day’s journey that leads them to confront their past amidst shared grief and hopes for a brighter future. Centred around intimate friendships between men of colour, Farewell presents evolving expressions of modern masculinity.
Content notes: Depiction of cigarette use.
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3 minutes
Diffused in Marginalised Orders, Dir. Florence To, 2024, United Kingdom
Words have a powerful role in shaping identity and transforming our lived experiences. The Scottish-born Hong Kong artist uses texts that ignite deep connections and solidarity. Their work confronts the dispossessions wrought by imperialism and challenges complicity in public amnesia about ongoing injustices, redefining our relationship within social barriers and power struggles in public spaces.
Access notes: Flashing light and rapid visual effects.
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5 minutes
Bellydance Vogue, Dir. Hadi Moussally, 2020, Lebanon
“My birthday was on the 3rd of April 2020 during lockdown, and for the first time, I celebrated it all by myself. But even if I was alone, I decided to celebrate it as if it’s the last one”
The film was made during quarantine.
A couple of filmmakers have sent their invoices over already this past month. Please find these attached and let me know once they’ve been paid and I’ll confirm with the filmmakers. I’ll send through any other ones that come my way.
This event is now sold out. To be added to the wait list, please contact elle@edinburghartfestival.
Access Information
- This event is located upstairs in the Salle Emilienne Moreau-Evrard space at the French Institute of Scotland, accessible via stairs or lift.
- You will enter the building at street level via the entrance on George IV Bridge, where a reception desk is available for directions to the space or the lift.
- Accessing this venue is an uphill walk from Waverley Station. For a step-free journey, travel along Market Street, left along North Bank Street towards the Bank of Scotland, and find the French Institute across the road.
- If travel costs would be a barrier to attending this workshop, please contact Rhubaba ([email protected]) or EAF ([email protected]) to arrange travel reimbursement.
- There will be English Descriptive subtitles accompanying each film, and the event will be BSL interpreted.
This event is part of Refractions: New Conceptions of Film + Photography (15 Jan—18 Mar). Co-created by the EAF Civic Programme and Rhubaba, this free event series aims to connect marginalised people with creativity through film, ceramics, writing, and more. Find out more here.