Best of Iris Prize 202415

2024 | 1h

Join us for a special film showcase in partnership with the Iris Prize – a renowned international award honouring excellence in LGBTQ+ short filmmaking. Together with Oxford Pride, we’re presenting a powerful selection of standout films from Iris 2024, each offering moving and thought-provoking stories of love, identity, and the human experience.

Sister Wives (15)

Winner: Best British Short & Co-op Audience Award, Iris Prize 2024

Director: Louisa Connolly-Burnham | UK, 2024 | 28 mins
Two sister wives, married to the same man, begin to develop romantic feelings for each other, challenging tradition and their own expectations.

JIA (12A)

Winner: Youth Jury Award, Iris Prize 2024

Director: Vee Shi | Australia, 2023 | 15 mins
After the loss of her son, a Chinese mother travels to Australia and embarks on a road trip with Eric, her son’s former lover. As they journey together, she is forced to confront her beliefs and grief. Language: Mandarin with English subtitles

Blood Like Water (15)

Winner: Iris Prize 2024

Director: Dima Hamdan | Palestine, 2023 | 14 mins
Shadi sets off on a secret adventure, only to put his family in danger. They’re forced to make an impossible choice: cooperate with the Israeli occupation or face shame from their own community.
Language: Arabic with English subtitles

Discover more about the Iris Prize and its celebration of LGBTQ+ storytelling at www.irisprize.org

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Killer of Sheep 15
1h 20m
Season: Cinema Rediscovered 2025
In South Central Los Angeles, a weary slaughterhouse worker struggles to find dignity and tenderness amid hardship. Charles Burnett’s landmark 1977 debut remains a poetic, groundbreaking portrait of Black American life and quiet resilience.

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A paranoid ex-revolutionary and his daughter are forced into confrontation when an old nemesis returns. Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s (There Will Be Blood, The Master) sharp satirical adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Vineland’.

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