A BORDERS town will be one of many stops for a national film festival this month.

On Saturday, May 20, Unit 4: The Cornucopia Room in Hawick will host part of this year's SQUIFF (Scottish Queer International Film Festival) Trans-Generational Tour.

The film festival, in partnership with Hawick's Alchemy Film and Arts, aims to "build community" and bring trans-centred stories to the Borders.

Milo Clenshaw from Alchemy Film & Arts, said: "I've been a fan of SQIFF for several years now and always look forward to attending their annual festival in Glasgow, so it's great to see them going on tour to reach queer communities across Scotland, and even better to get to be a part of it!

"These are some brilliant films which focus on transness across generations as well as more general queer topics which I think will really resonate here in Hawick.

"Finding queer community can be hard in a rural setting, so I'm looking forward to hopefully seeing some new faces as well as familiar ones."

Saturday will begin at 3pm with a screening of Trans Parenting, a programme of three short films telling the stories of parenthood through the eyes of trans and non-binary parents.

The programme of shorts includes Rémy Huberdeau's Transgender parents, Bea Goddard's M(OTHER)HOOD, and Flash Flood from Al Mackay.

Then at 5pm Chase Joynt's film Framing Agnes will be shown.

Starring a wonderful cast of trans actors – including Angelica Ross (Pose), Jen Richards (Mayfair Witches), and Zachary Drucker (Disclosure) – Framing Agnes tells the story of a pioneering trans woman who was part of key gender research in the 1960s at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles).

Following Framing Agnes, there will be a panel discussion led by Milo Clenshaw.

Indigo Korres, SQIFF programme coordinator added: “The Trans-Generational Tour is a project we created as we want to celebrate trans lives, trans histories and intergenerational trans communities.

"In every venue, after the screening of Framing Agnes, we will have a panel discussion with local trans and queer groups that will focus on intergenerational knowledge and how we have created and still create space for ourselves across Scotland.

"It's been beautiful to work with my community throughout the process of developing this project and I'm so excited to tour soon!

"SQIFF aims to build community through queer films and we hope the tour will create a beautiful opportunity for our community to celebrate itself and come together through it.”

Tickets for the Trans-Generational Tour are available on a sliding scale.

To book tickets for either screening at Unit 4 at Cornucopia, visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/scottish-queer-international-film-festival-8105707534