Bristol’s new year-round LGBT film festival, Queer Vision, launched yesterday with a bunch of great short films from the Iris Prize archives. I really enjoyed the whole hour’s program, which ranged from the deeply tragic to the delightfully comic.

The trailer above was for the Kickstarter campaign for Black is Blue, a film about a young trans man from Oakland and the fraught relationship between trans men and the lesbian community. It made me very homesick for the Bay Area, but did a great job of examining the issues and had an almost entirely black cast.

In stark contrast there was this hilarious animation from Germany, Zebra, which I guess is about how you can be accepted no matter how queer you are.

Thanks also due to the awesome Jayne Graham-Cummings whose brainchild this all is, to Daryn Carter as ever for making things happen, to Bramley & Gage for sponsoring the cocktails at the afterparty, and to the (Conservative) Lord Mayor, Alastair Watson, for turning up to give the event his civic blessing.