A Palestinian woman has won the world’s largest LGBTQ+ short film award. Dima Hamdan said she was “deeply honoured” to receive the £30,000 2024 Iris Prize, because it was both “the ‘Oscars’ of the LGBTQ+ short film world” and “it comes from a community that has increasingly voiced its support for Palestine in recent years”. Former Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price, who chaired the international jury, called Blood Like Water “an important reminder that queer people exist everywhere, including in Palestine at a time of war and occupation”. Louisa Connolly-Burnham won the Best British Short at the Cardiff-based festival for her work, Sister Wives.