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PRISMA - Queer Film Festival Cork
Friday, 29 August 2025 until Sunday, 31 August 2025
Welcome to PRISMA - Queer Film Festival Cork.
Our second edition of PRISMA will take place from Friday 29th August to Sunday 31st August 2025.
We are excited to expand our festival and collaborate with more and bigger screening venues.
PRISMA hosts a selection of feature and short film screenings, talks and industry events, as well as collaborations with local community projects, all focusing on queer representation and promoting inclusivity and diversity in the film community and industry.
We are excited receive your work!
Films screened at our festival will be up for the award prizes:
Best Irish Short
Best Irish Language Short
Best International Short
Audience Award for Best Short
Spirit of the Festival Award
2025 films...
SAUNA - Mathias Broe - 105min
Denmark 2025 - Subtitled - Fiction
SAUNA follows Johan, a young gay man, through his experiences with love and sex. He has just started working as a receptionist at Adonis, Copenhagen's only gay sauna, where he works and spends much of his time. For Johan, the city is like a boundless paradise of opportunities with bars, parties, and one-night stands, but it is only when he meets transgender William that he experiences love up close. The love between the two is put to a tough test as their relationship develops within a society governed by rigid ideas about gender, love, and identity.
Danish with eng. Subtitles
QUEENS OF DRAMA
Alexis Langlois – 114min – 12,50€ / French 2024 – Subtitled – Fiction
In 2005, Mimi Madamour, the young pop idol, lives through a cursed and fiery romance with queer punk icon Billie Kohler. Amongst love, hatred, and torn desires for the spotlight, their pursuit of glory and their passion for each other lead them down a path of self-destruction. They are the symbol of an entire generation, a duo that unleashes crowds, they are the Queens of Drama.
MY SUNNYSIDE
Matylda Kawka – 92min – United States 2025 – Documentary – English
True love can happen suddenly, even when you’ve already lost hope of finding the right partner. While in their twenties, ALLIE and JO didn't even know the word transgender. Two decades later, they meet and instantly fall in love, which gives them the strength to start fighting for their truths. They are getting ready for their wedding while transitioning, managing careers, and creating a family with three kids. Then, just when everything seems to be coming into place, Jo receives a devastating diagnosis that changes everything.
SHORT FILMS
REFRACTED LIGHTS – INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 1...
A GARDEN FOR ROSE - Michael de Lange (Australia)
A DIFFERENT HOME - Jules Lacave-Fontourcy (UK)
WALK ME HOME - Kaye Adelaide (Canada)
LOVE IS MERELY A MADNESS - Ian Hopkins, Timothy Friend (US)
UNRAVELLED - Sofia Bianca Chua, Maria Isabella Patricia Manaloto, Avryll Nartates (Philippines)
APNEA - Fabio Patrassi (Italy)
I DON’T KNOW IF I’LL HAVE TO SAY EVERYTHING AGAIN - Vitória Fallavena, Thassilo Weber (Brazil)
EMERALD SHINE – IRISH SHORT FILM PROGRAMME...
WOMANKIND(A) - Anna Ní Dhúill
MOVED - Sarah Griffin
FLIRT - Aisling Kane, Louis Flanagan
SKIN TO SKIN TALKS - Pradeep Mahadeshwar
DAISY: PROPHET OF THE APOCALYPSE - Venus Patel
ROMANCE IS DAD - Dave Moran
CLAONADH - Ciara Ní É
RADIANT CUTS – INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 2...
FORGIVE ME FATHER - Grac Talbot (UK)
EVERYTHING IS SO BORING - Federico Cianferoni (Italy)
SU TWICE - Agnese Làposi (Switzerland)
THE PRINCESS AND THE PEACOCK - Daniel Baker-Wells (Germany)
MX. - Wwenen Lusa (UK)
HOLLY ROLLERS - Grace Pritchard (US)
GODSPEED - Klāvs Liepiņš (Iceland)
PRISM SHAPES - CORK SHORT FILM PROGRAMME...
HOW’D YOU KNOW HER - Sebastian James Edward Beausang
BLOOD & WINE - Graham McSweeney
HOUNDS OF BEAUTY - Mary O’Leary
DO THE CROWS KNOW WHERE THE TRAINS GO - Ciaran Gerard Shanahan
CORK IS BURNING - Andrea Foley
SUNSET - Tereza Feixová
ROSA: A MAD WONDER - Nazli Yildirim
SEARCH FOR LIFE - Kaia Egritepe
DOLLAR BABY’S - Remi Alfallah, Megan Haly
FLESH MATTHEW - Bjorn Wallace