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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We showed Best of Iris Prize 2024 between June 24, 2025 and June 24, 2025.

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Sinners 15
2h 18m
Twin brothers seek a fresh start in their 1930s Southern hometown but uncover an evil lurking beneath the surface. Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan reunite for this chilling supernatural thriller set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow-era South.

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18:00

Safe 15
1h 58m
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21:00

The President's Cake 12A
1h 45m | Arabic w/ English subtitles
During 1990s Iraq, schoolgirl Lamia is chosen by her class to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein. With her pet rooster beside her she searches the town for ingredients in an award-winning debut about childhood resilience and life under dictatorship.

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Thursday 2nd April
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12:00

Sinners 15
Parent + Baby Club
2h 18m
Twin brothers seek a fresh start in their 1930s Southern hometown but uncover an evil lurking beneath the surface. Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan reunite for this chilling supernatural thriller set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow-era South.

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15:00

The President's Cake 12A
1h 45m | Arabic w/ English subtitles
During 1990s Iraq, schoolgirl Lamia is chosen by her class to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein. With her pet rooster beside her she searches the town for ingredients in an award-winning debut about childhood resilience and life under dictatorship.

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17:45

Sirāt 15
1h 54m | Spanish, French & Arabic w/ English subtitles
Oliver Laxe’s intense, hallucinatory road movie follows a father and son through Morocco as they try to find a missing relative at various sprawling, illegal raves. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival 2025.

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20:30

Sound of Falling 18
2h 35m | German w/ English subtitles
Across the twentieth century four teenage girls spend their youth in the same farmhouse decades apart, yet their lives echo each other. German director Mascha Schilinski interweaves generations of girlhood, revealing loneliness and lost innocence across a turbulent century.

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