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2023 Best British Shortlist

Documentary Fund Opens!

The Iris Prize Documentary Film Fund is excited to present its second iteration, aimed at promoting and supporting emerging documentary and factual film talent from Wales.

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Betty and Jean
Betty and Jean

2023 Best British

80-year-old Betty waits for her true love, Jean. She remembers their painful break-up in 1960’s Liverpool. She wasn’t brave enough to be with a woman. Will their love be rekindled?

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Lemon
Lemon

2023 Best British

Coincidence doesn’t come in threes.

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GOODBYE PYTHON
GOODBYE PYTHON

2023 Best British

A computer scientist struggles with his past, present and future when it comes time to part ways with his best friend.

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Malcolm
Malcolm

2023 Best British

In the aftermath of an emotionally abusive relationship, a man seeks couples counselling with a sock puppet likeness of his ex-boyfriend, Malcolm.

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Ticker
Ticker

2023 Best British

Howard drives his partner Joseph to hospital to undergo a high-risk operation, and the intimacy of the car, alongside a long forgotten mix tape, sees the masculinity of their forty year relationship start to yield.

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Longing
Longing

2023 Best British

On the night before her flight home, a Malaysian woman with a secret finds herself on an impromptu date with another woman.

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Ted and Noel
Ted and Noel

2023 Best British

For over 50 years, iconic activist Ted Brown has fought for queer and black identities. But after losing his partner, Noel, under heart-breaking circumstances, a devastated Ted questions the impact of his activism and struggles to mount a new campaign. Can Ted find the strength for one last fight for LGBTQ+ rights?

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The Talent
The Talent

2023 Best British

On the set of a luxury car commercial, an overlooked assistant seizes his chance to get noticed by the star. Filmed entirely on a Virtual Production Stage, THE TALENT is a lyrical meditation on masculinity, desire and becoming.

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BLEACH
BLEACH

2023 Best British

Gay and lonely, Lloyd is on a shame-fuelled, Grindr-addicted spiral into tragedy.

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Realness with a Twist
Realness with a Twist

2023 Best British

A talented footballer is forced to battle between his secret passion for voguing and the fear of his team-mate's disapproval.

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Just Passing
Just Passing

2023 Best British

Del, a workaholic struggling with her mental health, wants to escape the numbness consuming her. After experiencing an attempted assault by her colleague, she has a chance encounter with Sami, a homeless undocumented man from Nigeria. Del begins to question what she stands for and starts to come to terms with her own immigrant roots.

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Stone
Stone

2023 Best British

When Tess learns of her estranged father’s death, she travels to the funeral hoping for nothing more than some closure and the chance to meet the woman who stole him from her. Immediately blindsided by the revelation that her father was a transgender woman, Tess starts to wonder what else has been kept from her, turning to her mother for answers.

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F**ked
F**ked

2023 Best British

What exactly are the rules in an open relationship? With no rulebook, it’s down to the couple to draw their lines… So when Dani tells Jess she might be interested in sleeping with guys again, it doesn’t go down too well. F**KED raises the question many of us secretly ask ourselves - have I really explored and enjoyed my own sexuality? There’s something about hitting 30 that makes you question whether you’re really being true to yourself.

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Requiem
Requiem

2023 Best British

Requiem is set in 1605, against the backdrop of the witch trials. It's a coming of age story, following Evelyn as she engages in a game of cat and mouse against her father, Minister Gilbert, in order to be with Mary, the woman she loves.

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Fortune Favours the Fantabulous
Fortune Favours the Fantabulous

2023 Best British

Queer fortune teller, conjurer and runaway Fei Liu lives and performs out of a tent in the middle of the marshes. Over the course of three days, figures and phantoms of present and past penetrate Fei's tent and plague their subconscious, threatening to unravel their way of life and throwing their own future - and grip on reality - into turmoil.

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