30/05/2026
🏳️🌈 Join us on Wed 2 June for an exciting selection of films from the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival! First up will be award winners and audience favourites from the 2025 edition of the festival, followed by a double bill showing that love has always been our greatest act of defiance.
Full line up of short films below 👇
Y TOLLDY / Dir. Dan Thomas
When Emyr visits his hometown with his partner, a decade after vowing not to return, a chance meeting with his old school bully turns into a terrifying battle against forces they cannot explain.
BLACKOUT / Dir. Chris Urch
When a young man living in a high-rise is disturbed by domestic violence in the flat next door, he comes to realise that violence isn’t always on the outside – sometimes it’s with us all along.
ONE DAY THIS KID / Dir: Alexander Farah
As told through a deftly composed array of small yet pivotal moments, a first-generation Afghan Canadian man takes steps toward establishing an identity of his own while always conscious of his father’s shadow.
NEVER NEVER NEVER / Dir. John Sheedy
In a quaint Welsh fishing village, a young Shirley Bassey impersonator and a fisherman are swept into a secret romance, battling the tides of family and tradition as they search for the courage to claim their own happiness.
TWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA / Dir. Natalie Musteata & Alexandre Singh
In a farcical world where kissing is punishable by death, a personal shopper threatens the status quo.
JACKIE / Dir. Emily Sargent
A documentary about the life of Jackie Forster; a groundbreaking, outrageous — and largely unknown — LGBT+ rights campaigner whose underground donor s***m operation helped the first q***r women to have children.
🗓️ Wed 2 Jun, 19:00
🎟️£8-10 ➡️ fact.co.uk/whats-on
