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# Iris LGBTQ+ Film Festival unveils the 36 international shorts competing for £30,000 Iris Prize
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/iris-lgbtq-film-festival-unveils-the-36-international-shorts-competing-for-30000-iris-prize/
- Published: 2022-09-06T15:00:46.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-06T10:56:37.000Z
- Description: ‘The uniting factor in all 36 films is an exhilarating celebration of lives of LGBTQ+ people across the world’
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Arts, Cardiff, cinema, iris, LGBT, LGBTQ, shorts, Wales

**Lead Pic: Still from Tank Girl, directed by Erich Rettstadt, from Taiwan**

Organisers of the **Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival** have announced the shortlist of 36 films competing for the prestigious **Iris Prize** for the best international short film. This year, the festival returns in person from **October 11 – 16**. The box office opens on **September 16**, with full festival passes, day tickets, and weekend tickets available. **[CLICK HERE](https://irisprize2022.eventive.org/passes/buy?ref=scenemag.co.uk) for tickets.**

This year’s shortlist features films from 18 different countries, including three from the UK and three from Ireland. **Full details of programmes and showtimes can be found [HERE](https://irisprize2022.eventive.org/schedule?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**

Iris Prize has 25 partner festivals who nominated 21 of the shortlisted films, with the remainder chosen by a pre-selection jury. The shortlisted films are presented in nine separate programmes, with stories ranging from coming-of-age teenage tales, to horror comedies, through a journey encompassing designer babies, and the moving stories of people looking for love and companionship in the autumn of their lives.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image003.jpg)

Still from Tarneit, directed by John Sheedy, from Australia

**Berwyn Rowlands**, Iris Prize Film Festival Director, said: “We are pleased to unveil our fantastic shortlist of the best of the best in LGBTQ+ filmmaking. We have filmmakers from 18 countries, representing full diversity, actively engaging across the LGBTQ+ community. The uniting factor in all 36 films is an exhilarating celebration of lives of LGBTQ+ people across the world.

“It is especially poignant to be welcoming our domestic and international filmmakers and guests back to **Cardiff**, for the first in person, since 2019\. We hope you come to enjoy a festival of film and also take part in the ‘fringe events’ such as the first Iris gig at the legendary Cardiff venues, **Clwb Ifor Bach** and the other nightly parties during the week.’

**IRIS PRIZE 2022 INTERNATIONAL SHORTS, sponsored by The Michael Bishop Foundation**

*Tarneit* | Dir. **John Sheedy** | Australia  
*Muhafiz* (The Protector) | Dir. **Pradipta Ray** | India  
*Enlightened* | Dir. **Nina Bouchaud-Cheva** | France  
*Breathe* | Dir. **Harm van der Sanden** | Netherlands  
*Fervor* | Dir. **José Manuel Vélez** | USA  
*Beautiful They* | Dir. **Cloudy Rhodes** | Australia  
*Tank Fairy* | Dir. **Erich Rettstadt** | Taiwan  
*This is Katherine* | Dir. **Ida H. Eldøen** | Norway  
*Thot or Not* | Dir. **Dylan Glynn** | Canada  
*Chaperone* | Dir. **Sam Max** | USA  
*Les démons de Dorothy* (Dorothy’s Demons) | Dir. **Alexis Langlois** | France  
*St Jude* | Dir. **Pauline Quinonero** | Italy/France  
*CANS Can’t Stand* | Dir. **Matt Nadel** and **Megan Plotka** | USA  
*Peach Paradise* | Dir. **Shiva Raichandani** | UK/US  
*Lugar Nenhum* (Nowhere) | Dir. **Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro** | Portugal  
*Lana Kaiser* | Dir. **Philipp Gufler** | Germany / Netherlands  
*Write Here* | Dir. **Jake Muñoz Consing** | Philippines  
*Grown in Darkness* | Dir. **Devin Shears** | Canada  
*A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here* (Uma Paciência Selvagem me Trouxe Até Aqui) | Dir. **Érica Sarmet** | Brazil  
*Hornbeam* | Dir. **Mark Pluck** | UK  
*Blue Eyes* (Blaue Augen) | Dir. **Alexander Weber** | Austria  
*Successful Thawing of Mr Moro* | Dir. **Jerry Carlsson** | Sweden  
*Static Space* | Dir. **Kate Black Spence** and **John Klein** | USA  
*Science Around Us* | Dir. **Arif Abdillah** | Netherlands  
*Oisin* | Dir. **Alba Fernandez** | Ireland  
*Lambing* | Dir. **Katie McNeice** | Ireland  
*Forgiveness Day* | Dir. **Derek Ho** | USA  
*How Not to Date While Trans* | Dir. **Nyala Moon** | USA  
*Perennial* | Dir. **Naomi Cubero** | USA  
*What is a Woman?* (Hva er en kvinne?) | Dir. Marin Håskjold | Norway  
*Kapemahu* | Dir. **Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer**, **Joe Wilson**, **Daniel Sousa** (Animation Director) | USA  
*Brutal* | Dir. **Sam McConnell** | USA  
*Ripples* | Dir. **Yael Nudelman** | Israel  
*First Date* | Dir. **Clara Planalles** | Ireland  
*Night Ride* | Dir. **Erik Tveiten** | Norway  
*Tommies* | Dir. **Brian Fairbairn** | UK

**Full details about Iris Prize can be found [HERE](http://www.irisprize.org/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**