Maria, a young girl living in Portugal in the late 60s, parts with her husband who is taken to the Colonial War in Africa on their wedding day. In an environment of deep tradition she tries to find her voice, shattering primitive taboos to cope with her loss.
Earlene arrives at Venice Beach after running away from an old flame, only to become fast friends with bohemian intersex skater Bruno. Together, they set out into the desert to find themselves.
Jake is trapped in a fallout shelter with the one man he cannot stand: Nate, his ex. Sarcasm flies while they try to make the best of it, but as the horror of their situation creeps in, their stinging barbs and banter become masks, desperate means to keep their sanity.
Late night in a burger bar: Gay and straight, male and female, couples, singles and friends are observed by filmmaker Magnus Mork in this short drama filmed on location in a Cardiff burger bar. Burger is the fourth short film to be produced by the Iris Prize.
TRANS is an intimate moving image portrait focusing on Kali. Exploring themes of transformation and identity, the film constructs various scenes based on her thoughts, feelings and imaginings as she reflects on the pain of her metamorphosis.
As two lovers check into a hotel to steal some quality time together, Dream Date asks what would you do if you had just one night to act out your most sought after fantasy?
David in a state of cocaine binge, believes that he has arranged a casual ‘hook-up’, only to realise that things are not as they seem when the stranger arrives… An experimental film that travels freely between past and present, and reality and illusion, raising questions about sexuality, religion and mortality.
Cal returns to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill in hospital. His finds that his home city is like many across Europe and the world, it's facing hard economic times and fallout from the global economic crisis, rioting and looting almost a nightly occurrence as youth unemployment inexorably rises. His Auntie Jane, who has taken up residence in their run down council house, dulls her stagnation with welfare funded booze and disturbing attempts to sexually gratify herself by trying to seduce him. Navigating his way across this new landscape he meets a young student who needs his helps. However his act of kindness brings him into contact with a lawless drug dealing pimp and a race against time to make peace with his mother and get out of town as quickly as possible.
A boy wants to be a comedian but his father, a judge, is unintentionally his worst audience. He sentences himself to step into his son's shoes but they're secret shoes. A dirty sacrilegious film about comedy and love to scar your heart.
