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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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