Iris Prize Best British Shorts

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Factory Talk
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Tense film about two men of different generations working together in a factory, as they discuss homophobia, masculinity and sexuality.
2x2
Baby Boy
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Nicky, a sexually repressed London cabbie, embarks on a nightmarish weekend of excess after relapsing into drug addiction.
2x3
Pop
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Chased by bullies, a boy is rescued by a stranger calling himself Pop. Both are struggling with loss and form a bond. But Pop’s past may ruin things.
2x4
Inertia
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Teenager Rabia tries to help her old history teacher Maddie, who now lives in seclusion, grieving for her beloved wife.
2x5
Birthday Boy
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A trans boy finds solace online, away from the bullying he faces at an all-girls school. But on his 16th birthday, the bullying takes an unfortunate turn.
2x6
Cwch Deilen
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Heledd and Celyn take a boat made from a leaf and navigate the murky, undiscovered waters of a new relationship.
2x7
Silver & Gold
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Two living statues meet on London’s Southbank, but what begins as professional rivalry soon blossoms into romance.
2x8
Dragged Up
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Teenager Sarah feels pressured by her beauty queen mum. But then her new neighbour shows Sarah the wonderful world of drag.
2x9
From A to Q
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Alex wakes one morning from a dream in which she kisses Kayla, the only problem being that Kayla is Alex’s best friend. Can she tell Kayla how she feels?
2x10
S.A.M.
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Two young men form a connection on the swings of their local park.
2x11
Lesbian
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Rosemary Baker’s film of writer Lisa Luxx’s poem ‘Lesbian’ serves as an examination of the word itself and a fierce, urgent call to reclaim it. Sex.
2x12
Three Letters
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Following the death of his beloved step mother and grandmother, disability and LGBT campaigner Paul Davies attempts to write to the father he feels rejected by to find resolution and peace.
2x13
Acrimonious
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A non-acrimonious, but sudden, divorce wrenches gay, working-class born Emeka out of a decade-long hiatus living the middle-class dream, landing him back in the childhood council house he hoped he'd left behind.
2x14
Baba
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In the tunnels beneath Tripoli, a queer Libyan teenager dreams of escape to a better life, but an unexpected discovery forces him to question whether to stay or flee.
2x15
Split Sole
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Away from the prying eyes of friends and family, two men head to an abandoned theatre for a dance lesson fraught with things unsaid.

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