2025 Iris Prize

Birthdays

Marlon is confronted with his son's otherness as he doesn't get an invite for any of the birthday parties in his class.

DIRECTOR:

Adrian Jalily (They/Their/Their)

PRODUCER:

Lasse Abildgaard

WRITER:

Adrian Jalily

RELEASE YEAR:

2025, Language: English

Denmark, 19 mins

Mae Marlon yn wynebu gwahanolrwydd ei fab gan nad yw’n cael gwahoddiad i unrhyw un o’r partïon pen-blwydd yn ei ddosbarth.

Adrian Jalily is a Norwegian-Iranian film director and screenwriter based in Copenhagen. In 2023 they finished the short film The World Exists, but Not Right Now while studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The following Summer they were admitted to the National Film School of Denmark.


Mae Adrian Jalily yn gyfarwyddwr ffilm a sgriptiwr Norwyaidd-Iranaidd sy’n byw yn Copenhagen. Yn 2023 fe wnaethon nhw orffen y ffilm fer The World Exists, but Not Right Now wrth astudio yn Academi Frenhinol Celfyddydau Cain Denmarc. Yr Haf canlynol fe’u derbyniwyd i Ysgol Ffilm Genedlaethol Denmarc.


2025 Iris Prize Shortlist