We organise monthly screenings, the second Tuesday of every month. They take place at the Edinburgh Student Coop Housing, off Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh.
Each screening is followed by a discussion. We are so grateful to our wonderful guests, Callie Rose Petal & Léa Luiz de Oliveira, Sigrid Nielsen & the menaces from @lavender_menace_returns, Joleen Mataele, Winnie Herbstein, Mystika Glamoor
We platform independent, Scottish and Indigenous queer films. If you’d like your film to be screened, please get in touch.
Latest screenings
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Zero Patience
Next Queer Film Night is a Guilty Pleasure QFN !! A (terrible) musical? A delightful camp comedy? A militant film about AIDS? An iconic gay film? Zero Patience (John Greyson, 1993) is all of this, and more. John Greyson denounces the myth of a “patient zero” in the AIDS epidemics by having his character Zero…
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The Watermelon Woman
The Watermelon Woman (1996) is Cheryl Dunye’s documentary(?) about Fae Richards, a Black lesbian actress and Cheryl’s own life as she’s making the film. Mixing archives and 1990s video footage the films offers a glimpse at the Black lesbian scene in the 1930s and 1990s in Philly. The film playfully foregrounds issues of (queer) ancestry,…
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Queer Indigenous Shorts
I’ve been talking about it for a while and it’s finally happening! Next Queer Film Night will be a special evening of queer Indigenous shorts . There will be shorts from North America, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Hawaii. Including the stunningly beautiful Kapaemahu directed by teacher, activist, and filmmaker Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu (Kanaka/Native Hawaiian). This animated short…
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Drunktown’s Finest
Hello beautiful people 🌻For our second Queer Film Night I’d like to share with you one of my most treasured queer indigenous films: Drunktown’s Finest (2014) by Sydney Freeland. You all know by now how (annoyingly) passionate I am about indigenous films, so being able to share a film which involves both indigenous and queer…
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Rebel Dykes
And Queer Film Night got started with a documentary! Rebel Dykes (2021) directed by Harri Shanahan and Sian A. Williams fittingly pitched as “the explosion that happened when punk met feminism, told through the lives of a gang of lesbians in the riotous London of the 1980”. A bold defence of the opening a lesbian…