Thirty-five films will compete for the £30,000 prize during five days of screenings and events in the city.

Iris Prize

The festival opened with the screening of specially commissioned films in English and Welsh, while a jury choose the winner of the international selection of short films.

Organiser Berwyn Rowlands said it was important there was a festival that celebrated LGBT films.

“Politically, gay people are in a much better position in the UK than they were 10 years ago,” he said.

“We can get married, we can adopt children, we have rights in the workplace.

“But I think we are still relatively invisible, and so there are still many stories about gay existence that don’t make it on to mainstream television or cinema.”

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