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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Paris is Burning
Tuesday 14th March 2023 8:15pm at ESCH. Paris is Burning and discussion with Mystika Glamoor !!
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Special Event – Resistance in Residence
QFN special: Winnie Herbstein & exhibition Resistance in Residence. 20/02/23, 8:30pm at ESCH
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Reel Injun
Indigenous focus: 13th of February 2023 at 8:30pm at ESCH. Reel Injun (2009)
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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,…