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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14:45

Rose of Nevada 15
1h 54m
When a long-lost fishing boat returns to a Cornish village, hope rises for renewal. Nick and newcomer Liam join a voyage, but return transformed and caught in a haunting time loop. Shot on grainy 16mm, Mark Jenkin (Bait) delivers a haunting, mind-bending folktale.

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17:30

Orphan 15
2h 13m | Hungarian w/ English subtitles
In Budapest, 1957, a Jewish boy awaiting his father’s return from the camps is confronted by a mysterious man claiming to be his real parent. Oscar-winner László Nemes (Son of Saul) directs this powerful drama about identity, trauma and postwar Hungary.

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20:30

Reflection in a Dead Diamond 15
1h 27m | French & Italian w/ English subtitles
When a mysterious woman vanishes from the room next door, an ageing former spy living on the Côte d’Azur is drawn back into a world of fractured memories and buried secrets. Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s stylised thriller blends espionage, psychological intrigue and grindhouse homage.

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Thursday 11th June
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12:30

The Christophers 15
Parent + Baby Screening
1h 40m
A reclusive London artist (Ian McKellen) becomes the target of a scheme by his estranged children, who recruit a young painter (Michaela Coel) to infiltrate his home and uncover hidden works. Steven Soderbergh’s darkly comic chamber piece explores deception, legacy and artistic value.

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15:00

The Christophers 15
Descriptive Subtitles
1h 40m
A reclusive London artist (Ian McKellen) becomes the target of a scheme by his estranged children, who recruit a young painter (Michaela Coel) to infiltrate his home and uncover hidden works. Steven Soderbergh’s darkly comic chamber piece explores deception, legacy and artistic value.

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17:30

Gattaca 15
1h 46m
Special Events
Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an “In-Valid” who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.

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20:30

The Christophers 15
1h 40m
A reclusive London artist (Ian McKellen) becomes the target of a scheme by his estranged children, who recruit a young painter (Michaela Coel) to infiltrate his home and uncover hidden works. Steven Soderbergh’s darkly comic chamber piece explores deception, legacy and artistic value.

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