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Iris Prize: 2025 Best Bits + Intro & Q&A

This programme will be introduced and followed by a Q&A with the Iris Prize festival director, Berwyn Rowlands.

Award winners, audience favourites, and unforgettable stories from the 2025 Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

From a haunted tollhouse to a high-rise reckoning, from quiet self-discovery to a love song by the sea, these films capture the brilliance, beauty, and bravery that define Iris. Featuring Y Tolldy, Blackout, One Day This Kid and Never Never Never this programme celebrates the very best of Iris 2025 — films that moved audiences, impressed juries, and reminded us why Iris has never been just a festival.

Born in Cardiff and loved around the world, the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival is a global celebration of LGBTQ+ storytelling where filmmakers, dreamers, and audiences come together to share the power of film. In 2026, Iris turns 20, marking two decades of laughter, love, and unforgettable stories that have shaped a worldwide family.

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