2026 Iris Prize

Mishaps in Spacetime

Doubt creeps in as Cosmo, a space traveller, addresses his gender identity. In need of clarity and change, he wants to risk crossing the Butterfly Nebula. His spaceship, on the other hand, has a personality of her own. Cosmo will need to negotiate change with a certain loss of control.

DIRECTOR:

Caio Amado Soares

PRODUCER:

Caio Amado Soares

WRITER:

Caio Amado Soares

RELEASE YEAR:

2025

Germany, Portugal, 12 mins, Language: English

Director’s bio

Caio Amado Soares (They/Their/Their) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. Caio finished Art and Media degrees in the art universities of Lisbon (BA) and Berlin (MA), received scholarships from the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in 2015, and from the Berlin Senate in 2022-23 (Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium) and 2024 (Recherchestipendium). He has been part of the collectively run project space Raumerweiterungshalle between 2013-2023, in Berlin Ostkreuz. In 2016, he was nominated with the artist group Moles/Mules for the Bundespreis für Kunststudierende (German federal prize for art students).

Mae amheuaeth yn dod i’r amlwg wrth i Cosmo, teithiwr gofod, fynd i’r afael â’i hunaniaeth rhywedd. Gan fod angen eglurder a newid arno, mae am fentro croesi’r Butterfly Nebula. Mae gan ei long ofod, ar y llaw arall, bersonoliaeth ei hun. Bydd angen i Cosmo drafod newid gyda rhywfaint o golli rheolaeth.

Bywgraffiad y cyfarwyddwr

Mae Caio Amado Soares (Nhw/Eu/Eu) yn artist gweledol a gwneuthurwr ffilmiau sy’n byw yn Berlin. Cwblhaodd Caio raddau Celf a Chyfryngau ym mhrifysgolion celf Lisbon (BA) a Berlin (MA), derbyniodd ysgoloriaethau gan y Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung yn 2015, a chan Senedd Berlin yn 2022-23 (Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium) a 2024 (Recherchestipendium). Maen nhw wedi bod yn rhan o’r prosiect gofod Raumerweiterungshalle a redir ar y cyd rhwng 2013-2023, yn Berlin Ostkreuz. Yn 2016, cawson nhw eu henwebu gyda’r grŵp artistiaid Moles/Mules ar gyfer y Bundespreis für Kunststudierende (gwobr ffederal yr Almaen i fyfyrwyr celf).

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