2023 Iris Prize
Nikki spices things up at her mom's struggling tofu restaurant while working to afford her breast augmentation surgery.
2023 Iris Prize
Nora is worried because she’s performing in a play at her school, but being bullied by her classmates make her face something much more important: being accepted by her dad.
2023 Iris Prize
A Queer immigrant navigates growing up with the help of her best friend, a ghost.
2023 Iris Prize
A valiant island warrior, wounded in battle against foreign invaders, falls into a mysterious underwater world. When the octopus who rescues him transforms into a handsome young man, they fall in love and an epic adventure begins.
2023 Iris Prize
Larissa, a trans woman and Cláudio, a cis man, meet one night, in the streets of Lisbon. Two people, two realities, who dance their differences away until morning light. In challenge, in surprise, in awe and in recognition. An empowering story, free from violence and filled with light and hope for the better days yet to come.
2023 Iris Prize
Lady Casca, a drag queen in her sixties, is about to go on stage for the last time. The following day, a retirement awaits her. But her son Thomas interrupts the festivities.
2023 Iris Prize
Levi is your perfect boyfriend. Bob is looking for new experiences.
2023 Iris Prize
Guang has difficulty focusing during school choir. He's distracted by something more enticing than singing. When a charismatic new student arrives, Guang's curiosity and sexual desire is taken to a new level.
2023 Iris Prize
Five women, who don't know each other, come together to complete a mission: remove a dead man from the premises.
2023 Iris Prize
A whacky, irreverent comedy about a black trans woman who tries to dilate, after four years of not dilating, to hook-up IRL with her online boyfriend.
2023 Iris Prize
Dykes on Bikes is a motorcycle club with chapters all over the world. These days in Sydney it's about having a good time with friends and giving back to the community, but things weren't so recreational in the beginning.
2023 Iris Prize
Sad Farce. Mom throws her son a grandiose surprise BirthGay party, celebrating a year of his coming out of the closet.
2023 Iris Prize
Popstar Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame and blood. A three-part musical short.
2023 Iris Prize
A date takes an unexpected turn in this meditation on race, politics and history in Germany.
2023 Iris Prize
Follow the trials and triumphs of a pivotal day in Reyzl’s dating misadventures as she sets out to find the intimacy she craves.
2023 Iris Prize
Coming of age story of two sisters Malwa and Khushan exploring sexuality and attraction in their adolescent years. A new girl arrives in Khushan's classroom and she starts developing feelings for her.
2023 Iris Prize
Jude wants top surgery, Mom wants an "old lady pass" on getting their pronouns right. As they butt heads about gender, language, and body image, they both must navigate the discomfort of being seen.
2023 Iris Prize
Ryan is determined to celebrate his 12th birthday with glamour and style. But will Mam's erratic behaviour derail the night?
2023 Iris Prize
After 50 years, Zofia and Ania are deciding to go on their last journey together to fight for their old love.
2023 Iris Prize
A socially awkward young man is happy to live in a world ruled by robots, but his life is upended when he falls in love with a handsome anti-robot revolutionary.
2023 Iris Prize
Babi is a woman who lives, loves, and moves around the city with the same intensity as she pedals her bicycle.
2023 Iris Prize
Parents are faced with the painful task of washing their deceased transgender daughter. When no one agrees to wash her, how far is the father willing to go to do it?
2023 Iris Prize
Young lovers flirt in a library but face challenges outside of the four walls.
2023 Iris Prize
After a night out at a Jerusalem gay bar, Aaron finds out that his bag is missing. Unable to return home without it, he receives assistance from Sefi, the bartender. The fates of both will be linked tonight.
2023 Iris Prize
Two strangers are scared on a late walk home. As they try to escape one another, their worlds collide at an intersection forcing them to question who they’re afraid of and why.
2023 Iris Prize
We are first introduced to Luke, Bridie and Tilly as they rideshare to the pub for their separate dating-app dates. Disaster ensues on all counts, and the three end the night crammed in a skip-bin outside the pub—dateless and still single.
2023 Iris Prize
A meeting between two women in the forest has a strong impact on them both. Can they overcome their traumas?
2023 Iris Prize
A woman in the middle of an affair arrives home to find her wife making a snuff film in their living room.
2023 Iris Prize
The Alexander Ball is an observational documentary extravaganza celebrating Samoan-Māori-Australian trans woman of colour, Ella Ganza, and the Meanjin (Brisbane) ballroom scene, as the community prepares for one of biggest ballroom events of the year: The Alexander Ball.
2023 Iris Prize
The voice that I can't hear, is it yours or mine?
2023 Iris Prize
A seventeen-year-old boy struggles to reconcile his burgeoning queer identity with his filial duties and expectations from his Chinese immigrant mother.
2023 Iris Prize
A crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most dangerous cranes, where he can find his freedom.
2023 Iris Prize
As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.
2023 Iris Prize
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.
2023 Iris Prize
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?
