Falling in Love with Iris (15)

This programme is a collection of short films from the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival that explores looking for love, finding love, desire, and human connections in various forms.

Films screening in this programme are:

Bubbling – 12A (Dir Chang Che Ming/CN/23 mins)

Guang has difficulty focusing during school choir. He’s distracted by something more enticing than singing. When a charismatic new student arrives, Guang’s curiosity and sexual desire is taken to a new level.

Malwa Khushan – U (Dir Preeti kanungo, Sourav Yadav/IN/20 mins)

Coming of age story of two sisters Malwa and Khushan exploring sexuality and attraction in their adolescent years. A new girl arrives in Khushan’s classroom and she starts developing feelings for her.

Single: Meat Cutes – 15 (Dir Tilly Robba, Steph Jowett/AU/12 mins)

We are first introduced to Luke, Bridie and Tilly as they rideshare to the pub for their separate dating-app dates. Disaster ensues on all counts, and the three end the night crammed in a skip-bin outside the pub—dateless and still single.

Diomysus – 12A – (Dir Emily Elizabeth Morus-Jones/GB/5 mins)

An experimental film where a group of mice (voiced by members of the UK polyamorous community whose identities are masked using puppetry) discuss their experiences of polyamory. Diomysus asks the question – are we (the audience) more open to taboo ideas if unconscious bias is eliminated?