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Never Never Never Iris on the Move

FACT & Iris Prize presents

Iris on the Move: Iris 2025 Best Bits & When Love Broke The Law

The Box, Ground Floor
FACT Liverpool, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ
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Ahead of its 20th anniversary in October, Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival is taking Iris on the road again, as its annual touring showcase Iris on the Move brings a selection of award-winning short films to FACT.

Doors: 18:30. Screening: 19:00.

Please note that doors open 30 minutes before the screening and the programme will begin promptly at the listed time.

Bookings

Booking Required — £8-10*

*Concession tickets are available to anyone who is in full-time education, unwaged, or over 60.

Iris 2025: Best Bits

Award winners, audience favourites, and unforgettable stories from the 2025 Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

From a haunted tollhouse to a high-rise reckoning, from quiet self-discovery to a love song by the sea, these films capture the brilliance, beauty, and bravery that define Iris. This programme celebrates the very best of Iris 2025 — films that moved audiences, impressed juries, and reminded us why Iris has never been just a festival.

Y Tolldy

Y Tolldy (15)

Dir. Dan Thomas | 10 mins | Welsh with English Subtitles

When Emyr visits his hometown with his partner, a decade after vowing not to return, a chance meeting with his old school bully turns into a terrifying battle against forces they cannot explain.

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Blackout (15)

Dir. Chris Urch | 15 mins | English, no subtitles

When a young man living in a high-rise is disturbed by domestic violence in the flat next door, he comes to realise that violence isn’t always on the outside – sometimes it’s with us all along.

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One Day This Kid (15)

Dir: Alexander Farah | 18 mins | English & Farsi with English Subtitles

As told by filmmaker Alexander Farah through a deftly composed array of small yet pivotal moments, a first-generation Afghan Canadian man takes steps toward establishing an identity of his own while always conscious of his father’s shadow.

Never Never Never

Never Never Never (15)

Dir. John Sheedy | 18 minutes | Welsh with English Subtitles

In a quaint Welsh fishing village, a young Shirley Bassey impersonator and a fisherman are swept into a secret romance, battling the tides of family and tradition as they search for the courage to claim their own happiness.

When Love Broke The Law

From forbidden kisses to real-life revolution, this double bill shows that love has always been our greatest act of defiance.

In Two People Exchanging Saliva, affection itself is a crime — and yet, someone dares to kiss. In Jackie, the fearless story of a pioneering lesbian activist reminds us that real change begins with small acts of courage. Together, these films celebrate desire, protest, and the power of those who refused to live by anyone else’s rules.

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Two People Exchanging Saliva (12A)

Dir. Natalie Musteata & Alexandre Singh | 36 mins | French with English Subtitles

In a farcical world where kissing is punishable by death, a personal shopper threatens the status quo.

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Jackie (12A)

Dir. Emily Sargent | 20 minutes | English, No Subtitles

A short documentary about the life of Jackie Forster; a groundbreaking, outrageous — and largely unknown — LGBT+ rights campaigner whose underground donor sperm operation helped the first queer women to have children.

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