Iris Prize Best British Shorts - Season 3 / Year 2022
Season 3 / Year 2022
Episodes
Silver & Gold
Short film exploring the relationship between two living statues on London's Southbank, whose professional rivalry turns into romance.
Inertia
Short film about a teenager who tries to help her old history teacher, who now lives in seclusion, grieving for her beloved wife who was killed in extraordinary circumstances.
Dragged Up
Short film about a teenage girl pressured into following her beauty queen mother's footsteps, who is introduced to the world of drag by a new friend.
Split Sole
Short film selected for the prestigious Iris Prize film award in 2021, awarded as part of the Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival. Away from the prying eyes of friends and family, two young men head to an abandoned London theatre for a dance lesson fraught with things unsaid.
Lesbian
Short film selected for the prestigious Iris Prize film award in 2021, awarded as part of the Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival. Rosemary Baker's adaptation of British-Syrian writer Lisa Luxx's poem Lesbian, an examination of the word itself and an urgent call to arms to reclaim it from decades of toxic connotation.
Cwch Deilen
Another film selected for the prestigious Iris Prize film award in 2021, awarded as part of the Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival. Magical animated short telling the story of Heledd and Celyn, who take to a boat made from a leaf and navigate the murky, undiscovered waters of a new relationship.
Baby Boy
A short film selected for the prestigious Iris Prize film award in 2021, awarded as part of the Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival. Nicky, a sexually repressed London cab driver, husband and father embarks on a nightmarish weekend of excess after relapsing into drug addiction.
Birthday Boy
A transgender teenage boy finds solace in online games, away from the bullying he faces at an all-girls private school. But on his 16th birthday, the bullying takes an unfortunate turn for the worse.
Baba
Short film selected for the prestigious Iris Prize film award in 2021, awarded as part of the Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival. Living in the tunnels beneath Tripoli, a queer Libyan teenager dreams of escape to a better life, but an unexpected discovery forces him to question whether to stay or flee from his homeland.
From A to Q
Short film selected for the prestigious Iris Prize film award in 2021, awarded as part of the Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival. Alex wakes one morning from a dream in which she kisses Kayla, the only problem being that Kayla is Alex's best friend. Can she tell Kayla how she feels? And how will Kayla react if she does?
Factory Talk
Tense film about two men of different generations working together in a factory. The younger recalls the older man's casual homophobia as well as his own questions about masculinity and sexuality.
Pop
Chased by bullies, a young boy is rescued by a stranger calling himself Pop. Both are struggling with the loss of a loved one, so form a bond. However, the bond is placed under strain by the truth of Pop's past.
Home Bird
The Piss Witch
Keep off the Grass
Nant
Silence
Fluorescent Adolescent
Tommies
Hornbeam
A Fox in the Night
Jim
Jelly
Skinny Fat
The Rev
Queer Parivaar
Looking for Barbara
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