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Shadows @ Iris Cardiff's international LGBTQ+ film festival The world's biggest short film prize, which empowers the winner to make a new film
18th Iris Prize Festival 13-19 OCTOBER 2025 in Cardiff, Wales	2 0 2 5 F I L M S
	S H O R T S . . . BIRTHDAYS (Jalily, Den) BLACKOUT (Urch, UK) BURY YOUR GAYS (Cooper, UK) BUSCANDO ALMA (Fisher, US) CATS CAN TEACH YOU TO DIE ALONE (Hanus, Pak) CLEMENTINE (Tran, US) COUSIN (Jato, Sp) DAMP (Chen, Tai) DANDELION (Obertinca, US) DEMONS (Imani, UK) THE DYSPHORIA (Aoibheann, Aus) FR BRENNAN IS HAVING A BREAKDOWN! (Faulkner, Ire) GAME RULES (Zetterberg, Swe) THE HAMMER OF WITCHES (Haskjold, Nor) HI MOM, IT'S ME, LOU LOU (Yilmaz, Tur) HOLD STILL (Dynes, Aus) HOT YOUNG GEEK SEEKS BLOOD SUCKING FREAK (Virgoe, UK) I'M THE MOST RACIST PERSON I KNOW (Varghese, Aus) IF I'M HERE IT IS BY MYSTERY (Ribeiro, Br) JACKIE (Sargent, UK) JASMINE THAT BLOOMS IN AUTUMN (Das, Ind) KRIZALIT (Ibarra/Tokgoz, Tur) LISBON (Morgan, UK) MAN ENOUGH (Tessema, UK) MARLEEN (Leuven, Ned) MEAT RAFFLE (Armstrong, UK) MY SENSES ARE ALL I HAVE TO OFFER (Marques, Por) NEVER, NEVER, NEVER (Sheedy, UK) NEXT DOOR (Marz, Ger) ONE DAY THIS KID (Farah, Can) ORGANZA'S REVENGE (Scott, Can) THE PASSION ACCORDING TO KARIM (Wursten, Fr) PUREBRED (Roberts, UK) RAINBOW GIRLS (Duffuor, US) RIPE! (Tusk, US)	SECOND SPRING (Chubun, Cz) THE SECOND TIME AROUND (Howard, UK) SLEAZY TIGER (Ley, UK) SNAPPED STRINGS (UK) SOLERS UNITED (Harrak, UK) SOUVENIR (Petropoulos, Aus) SOVIET FANTASIA (Balint, UK) SWEETHEART (Wintour, UK) SWEETHEART (Wintour, UK) TOAD SONG (Qin, Chn) TOUCH ME WITH YOUR EYES (Kabore, Bel) TRAILBLAZERS (Bushra, Wales, UK) TWO BLACK BOYS IN PARADISE (Sells, UK) TWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA (Musteata/Singh, Fr) WHILE WE STILL HAVE TIME (Grimshaw-Hall, Aus) WITH LOVE, LOTTIE (Drummond, Aus) WITNESS (Mehta/Jaan, US) Y TOLLDY (Thomas, UK) Zari (Parekh, Ind) F E A T U R E S . . . 3000 LESBIANS GO TO YORK (Dax, UK) A TEACHER'S GIFT (Ribiero, UK) CACTUS PEARS (Kanawade, Ind) DEPARTURES (Eyre-Morgan/Ely, UK) DREAMERS (Gharoro-Akpojotor, UK) LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS (Varghese/Hobbs, Aus) ONLY GOOD THINGS (Nolasco, Br) PILLION (Lighton, UK) PLAINCLOTHES (Emmi, US) SCREAMS FROM THE TOWER (Grant, US) SISTERS (Yankou, US) SOME NIGHTS I FEEL LIKE WALKING (Vargas, Ph) TOMORROW'S TOO LATE (Loane, UK)

18th Iris Prize Festival 10-15 OCTOBER 2024 in Cardiff, Wales 2 0 2 4 A W A R D S . . . Iris Prize: BLOOD LIKE WATER Audience Award: SISTER WIVES Feature: YOUNG HEARTS British Short: SISTER WIVES Micro Short: FACADE Actress: Louisa Connolly-Burnham (SISTER WIVES) Actor: Richard Wilson (G FLAT) British Actress: Dennis Grindel (FAIRVIEW PARK) British Actor: Ashley Goa (DIVINE INTERVENTION) Feature Actress: Luciana Grasso (VERA AND THE PLEASURE OF OTHERS) Feature Actor: Lou Goosens (YOUNG HEARTS) Feature Commendations: THE SUMMER WITH CARMEN and HIDDEN MASTER Youth Prize: JIA Community Award: THREE LETTERS Education Award: FORBIDDEN REVERIE	2 0 2 4 F I L M S
	S H O R T S . . . 11:01 (Drosinos, UK) ALL THE WORDS BUT THE ONE (Mau, US) ALOK (Hedison, US) AMOEBA (Fallon, Ire) BENDER DEFENDERS (Putilova, UK) BLOOD LIKE WATER (Hamdan, Pal) BOYS IN THE WATER (Larue, Fr) THE BRIDGES WE CROSS (Van Dongen, UK) BUNK (Jasinski, Cz) BUST (Field, US) CHILDREN OF GOD (Kusi, Gh) COME CORRECT (Coffee, US) DEVELOP (James, UK) DIE BULLY DIE (Lacey/Lacey, Aus) DILDOTECTONICA (Marques, Por) DIOMYSUS: MORE THAN MONOGAMY (Morus-Jones, UK) DIPPED IN BLACK (Thorne/Lynch, Aus) DIRTY TALK (Wyse, Ire) DIVINE INTERVENTION (Tran, UK) DON'T FORGET ME (Wang, Can) EVERYTHING LOOKS SIMPLE FROM A DISTANCE (Toner, UK) FACADE (Vi, UK) FAIRVIEW PARK (Hodgetts/Nicolet, UK) FISITOR (Titus, UK) FORBIDDEN REVERIE (Huang, UK) FORMER BEST FRIEND (Feng, Chn) G FLAT (Darney, UK) GIGI (Calvi, Fr) HEROINES (Desrives, Fr) HERON (Ross, UK) HOMOFONIA (Murphy, Ire) HONEYMOON (Papastathopoulos, Gr) HOT MESS (Campbell, UK) I HOPE HE DOESN'T KILL ME (Borchgrevink/Hanrahan, UK) I NEVER PROMISED YOU A JASMINE GARDEN (Alkamli, Can) IYKYK (Rajpurohit, Ind) JIA (Shi, Aus) KASBI (Jabir, US) KINDNESS BEGINS WITH ME (Watkins, UK) LOVE, JAMIE (Murthy, US) MAKING UP (Paige, UK) MAMI (Araci, Swe) MAR(I)CONA (Lazaro, Sp) MISS TEMPERANCE (McClain, UK) MNM (Garcon, US) NEVER KILL A FEMBOY ON THE FIRST DATE (Murphy, Ire)	NILOO (Koushki, Irn) PEARLS (Konan, UK) THE PERFORMANCE (Zhou, Ned) PILL NATION (Tadeu, Br) QUEER ENOUGH (Reynolds, UK) RAGE CONSUMES ME (Waverley-Hudson, UK) RAT! (Mulani, US) READY FOR RANSOM (Dickel, Ger) REJOYCE! (Ledger, UK) SALLY LEAPT OUT OF A WINDOW LAST NIGHT (Spottiswoode, UK) SILENT SPRING (Kilbride, UK) SISTER WIVES (Connolly-Burnham, UK) SKIN (Behrens, Nor) SOME KIND OF PARADISE (Finegan, US) STD (Campbell, UK) TERRATOMA (Roche, Ire) TETH (Darney, UK) THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK ON YOUR PARENTING (Byrne, Ire) THREE LETTERS (Graham, UK) UNCHARTERED WATERS (Graham, UK) UNTIL TODAY (Lyons, UK) WATER'S EDGE (Barker, UK) WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY SUPERHEROES (Martin, UK) WHERE WE STAY (Bouvy, Ned) WHO'S KITTY AMOR? (Diederen, UK) YOU KNOW THE RULES (Tooth, UK) F E A T U R E S . . . GREER RALSTON: GIVING IT ALL TO ART (Dax, UK) HIDDEN MASTER: THE LEGACY OF GEORGE PLATT LYNES (Shahid, US) IN THE ROOM WHERE HE WAITS (Marshall, Aus) INDIA'S 1ST BEST TRANS MODEL AGENCY (Mehrotra, UK) LAST EXMAS (Rotella, Can) LIFE OF RILEY (Lawrence, UK) PERFECT ENDINGS (Ribeiro, Br) ROOKIE (Lee, Ph) SOLO (Dupuis, Can) SUNFLOWER (Carrubba, Aus) THE SUMMER WITH CARMEN (Mavproeidis, Gr) VERA AND THE PLEASURE OF OTHERS (Tamburello/Actis, Arg) YOUNG HEARTS (Schatteman, Bel)

17th Iris Prize Festival 10-15 OCTOBER 2023 in Cardiff, Wales 2 0 2 3 A W A R D S . . . Iris Prize: SCARING WOMEN AT NIGHT Audience Award: TED AND NOEL Feature: FEMME UK Short: FKED Micro Short: TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMICS Actress: Meg Salter & Rosalind Eleazar (FKED) Actor: Emma D'Arcy (THE TALENT) Beyond the Binary: Son of a Tutu (LEMON) Feature Actress: Amrit Kaur (THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS) Feature Actor: Hubert Mikowski (NORWEGIAN DREAM) Feature Beyond the Binary: Bishop Black (CAPTAIN FAGGOTRON SAVES THE UNIVERSE) Youth Prize: REALNESS WITH A TWIST Community Award: WHERE'S DANNY Education Award: THE FIGHT IN THE DOG	2 0 2 3 F I L M S
	S H O R T S . . . 100% USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC HOMEMADE TOFU 17 MINUTOS CON NORA A HISTORY OF SITTING IN WAITING ROOMS AIKANE THE ALEXANDER BALL AN AVOCADO PIT BEYOND THE SEA BETTY AND JEAN BLEACH BOYFRIEND BUBBLING A CARDIFF GHOST STORY COEURS BRISES HOTEL DILATING FOR MAXIMUM RESULTS DIOMYSUS DOGFRIEND DYKES ON BIKES: AN ORIGIN STORY HAPPY BIRTHGAY FORTUNE FAVOURS THE FANTABULOUS F**KED GOODBYE PYTHON HIDEOUS THE IMMEASURABLE JELLY BEAN JUST PASSING LEMON LONGING MALCOLM MALWA KHUSHAN MONSIEUR LE BUTCH MUD QUEEN MY OLD GALS MY SUMMER IN THE HUMAN RESISTANCE NEM O MAR TEM TANTA AGUA	OUR MALES AND FEMALES PENGUIN REALNESS WITH A TWIST REQUIEM REQUIRED READING REVIVED SCARING WOMEN AT NIGHT SINGLE: MEAT CUTES SKADJA SNUFF SOME GIRLS HATE DRESSES STONE THE TALENT TICKER TED AND NOEL TUI NA TICKER WARSHA WILL YOU LOOK AT ME F E A T U R E S . . . ARTIST UNKNOWN BIG BOYS CAPTAIN FAGGOTRON SAVES THE UNIVERSE CHUCK CHUCK BABY EISMAYER FEMME IN BED NORWEGIAN DREAM OUR SON THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS THE LOST BOYS MUTT

16th Iris Prize Festival 11-16 OCTOBER 2022 in Cardiff, Wales 2 0 2 2 A W A R D S . . . Iris Prize: TARNEIT Feature: METAMORPHOSIS UK Short: QUEER PARIVAAR Micro Short: HOLD ME CLOSE PLEASE Actress: Claudia Jolly (TOMMIES) Actor: Gary Fannin (JIM) Feature Actress: Lacey Oake (BEFORE I CHANGE MY MIND) Feature Actor: Giancarlo Commare (MASCARPONE) Feature Beyond Binary: Gold Azeron (METAMORPHOSIS) Youth Prize: BREATHE Community Award: WANT/NEED Education Award: THE BED	2 0 2 2 F I L M S
	S H O R T S . . . BEAUTIFUL THEY (Rhodes, Aus) BLUE EYES (Weber, Aus) BREATHE (van der Sanden, Ned) BRUTAL (McConnell, US) CANS CAN'T STAND (Nadel/Plotka, US) CHAPERONE (Max, US) DOROTHY'S DEMONS (Langlois, Fr) ENLIGHTENED (Bouchaud-Cheva, Fr) FERVOR (Velez, US) FIRST DATE (Planalles, Ire) FLUORESCENT ADOLESCENT (Sharp, UK) FORGIVENESS DAY (Ho, US) A FOX IN THE NIGHT (Blessie, UK) GROWN IN DARKNESS (Shears, Can) HOME BIRD (Roberts, UK) HORNBEAM (Pluck, UK) HOW NOT TO DATE WHILE TRANS (Moon, US) JELLY (O'Rourke, UK) JIM (Young, UK) KAPEMAHU (Wong-Kalu/Hamer/Wilson, US) KEEP OFF THE GRASS (Rudd, UK) LAMBING (McNeice, Ire) LANA KAISER (Gufler, Ger) LOOKING FOR BARBARA (Kilbride, UK) MUHAFIZ: THE PROTECTOR (Ray, Ind) NANT (Barton, UK) NIGHT RIDE (Tveiten, Nor) NOWHERE (Ribeiro, Por) OISIN (Fernandez, Ire) PEACH PARADISE (Raichandani, UK) PERENNIAL (Cubero, US) THE PISS WITCH (Barker, UK) QUEER PARIVAAR (Raichandani, UK)	THE REV (Martin, UK) RIPPLES (Nudelman, Isr) ST JUDE (Quinonero, It) SCIENCE AROUND US (Abdillah, Ned) SILENCE (Peyton, UK) SKINNY FAT (David, UK) STATIC SPACE (Spence/Klein, US) SUCCESSFUL THAWING OF MR MORO (Carlsson, Swe) TANK FAIRY (Rettstadt, Tai) TARNEIT (Sheedy, Aus) THIS IS KATHERINE (Eldoen, Nor) THOT OR NOT (Glynn, Can) TOMMIES (Fairbairn/Eccleston, UK) WHAT IS A WOMAN? (Haskjold, Nor) A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME HERE (Sarmet, Br) WRITE HERE (Consing, Ph) F E A T U R E S . . . BARRIO BOY (Shinners, US) BEFORE I CHANGE MY MIND (Anderson, Can) ELEPHANT (Krawczycki, Pol) FIRE ISLAND (Clohessy, US) HELLO WORLD (Elvebaak, Nor) LONESOME (Boreham, Aus) MASCARPONE (Guida, It) SIRENS (Baghdadi, Leb) SO VAM (Mackay, Aus) WHO WE LOVE (Cantwell, Ire) METAMORPHOSIS (Tiglao, Ph) YES OR NO (Wongsomphet, Tha)

Iris Prize Iris is the god of the rainbow — the universal symbol of sexual diversity. She is also a messenger.	P R I Z E W I N N E R S & C A R D I F F P R O D U C T I O N S
	Iris Prize winners... 2007: PARIAH (Dee Rees, US) 2008: COWBOY (Till Kleinert, Ger) 2009: STEAM (Eldar Rapaport, US) 2010: THE SAMARITAN (Magnus Mork, Nor) 2011: I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK ALONE (Daniel Ribeiro, Br) 2012: THE WILDING (Grant Scicluna, Aus) 2013: GORILLA (Tim Marshall, Aus) 2014: ALL GOD'S CREATURES (Brendon McDonall, Aus) 2015: VESSELS (Arkasha Stevenson, US) 2016: BALCONY (Toby Fell-Holden, UK) 2017: MOTHER KNOWS BEST (Mikael Bundsen, Swe) 2018: THREE CENTIMETRES (Lara Zeidan, Leb) 2019: BLACK HAT (Sarah Smith, US) 2020: SHORT CALF MUSCLE (Victoria Warmerdam, Ned) 2021: BABA (Arbor/Ali, UK) 2022: TARNEIT (John Sheedy, Aus) 2023: SCARING WOMEN AT NIGHT (Issa, Can) 2024: BLOOD LIKE WATER (Hamdan, Pal)	Iris Prize productions... 2010: COLONIAL GODS (Rees) 2011: BOYS VILLAGE (Kleinert) 2012: LITTLE MAN (Rapaport) 2013: BURGER (Mork) 2014: HURT'S RESCUE (Scicluna) 2015: FOLLOWERS (Marshall) 2016: SPOILERS (McDonall) 2016: D & DAISY (Stevenson) 2019: INVOLUNTARY ACTIVIST (Blundsen) 2020: A BEAUTIFUL FORM TO SEE (Zeidan) 2022: CARDIFF (Smith) 2025: NEVER, NEVER, NEVER (Sheedy)
Rich Cline was on the 2010 Iris Prize Jury: 2010 IRIS SHORTS
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