Iris 2025: Best Bits (15)
Sun 22 Mar
|Exeter Phoenix - Studio 74
Returning to Studio 74 for a 3rd year is the Iris Prize: Best Bits Award winners, audience favourites from the opening night – unforgettable stories from the 2025 Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
Time & Location
22 Mar 2026, 17:30 – 18:40
Exeter Phoenix - Studio 74, Gandy St, Bradninch, Place, Exeter EX4 3LS, UK
About The Event
Returning to Studio 74 for a 3rd year is the Iris Prize: Best Bits Award winners, audience favourites from the opening night – 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.
Y Tolldy (15)
Dir. Dan Thomas. Wales, UK. 10 mins. Welsh with English Subtitles. (2025 Opening Night)
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…