BEST OF IRIS
Screening: Thursday June 5, 9.30 AM | Liberty Cinema
Celebrating KASHISH’s long-standing partnership with the Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival since 2010, Best of Iris 2025 brings together three award-winning LGBTQ+ shorts ahead of Iris Prize’s 20th anniversary in October 2026. Featuring bold stories of love, identity, and belonging, the programme showcases films connected to one of the world’s largest LGBTQ+ short film awards, for which KASHISH’s Best Indian Narrative Short winner is nominated annually.
(2025 Best British Winner)
Director: Chris Urch
15 MIN | UK | English, No Subtitles
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.
(2025 Youth Award winner)
Director: Lily Drummond.
14 MIN | Australia | English, No Subtitles
When a disabled teenager fears she will never find love, she enlists her friends to become her mentors in the unpredictable world of dating and discovers that love can come in unexpected ways and different forms.
(2025 Iris Prize Winner)
Director: Alexander Farah
18 MIN | Canada | English, Farsi with English Subtitles
As told by filmmaker Alexander Farah 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.