2025 Iris Prize

Souvenir

While stuck on a family vacation, a young, closeted teen, Keira, must confront the unnerving hold her girlfriend has over her after she takes unwarranted photos of her during sex.

DIRECTOR:

Renée Marie Petropoulos (She/Her/Hers)

PRODUCER:

Yingna Lu

WRITER:

Renée Marie Petropoulos

RELEASE YEAR:

2025, Language: English, French

Australia, 15 mins

Tra ei bod hi ar wyliau teuluol, rhaid i Keira, merch ifanc, dawel, wynebu’r gafael annifyr sydd gan ei chariad drosti ar ôl iddi dynnu lluniau diangen ohoni yn ystod rhyw.

Renée Marie Petropoulos is an award-winning queer filmmaker from Gadigal/Sydney. Her graduating thesis film from Columbia University, Tangles and Knots, received international acclaim premiering at the Berlinale 2018 Generation 14Plus competition and SXSW 2018. Renée is currently in development on a variety of projects, focusing on queer and female-driven stories.


Mae Renée Marie Petropoulos yn wneuthurwr ffilmiau cwiar arobryn o Gadigal/Sydney. Derbyniodd ei ffilm traethawd hir graddio o Brifysgol Columbia, Tangles and Knots, glod rhyngwladol wrth iddi gael ei dangos am y tro cyntaf yng nghystadleuaeth Generation 14Plus Berlinale 2018 ac SXSW 2018. Ar hyn o bryd mae Renée wrthi’n datblygu amrywiaeth o brosiectau, gan ganolbwyntio ar straeon cwiar a straeon sy’n cael eu gyrru gan fenywod.


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