Leila Navabi: Funny, Gay & Welsh

In this 30-minute film, stand-up Leila Navabi recounts how as a closeted teenager she "hated" living in Cardiff and thought about killing herself rather than have people know she was a lesbian.

"I couldn't face the judgement and thought that that would be less painful for everyone" she reflects in the documentary.

At 16, she was outed by an ex-boyfriend, recalling how she "felt like an atomic bomb had been let off and I just wanted to get out of the firing line". Soon after, she moved to London and began going to see stand-up at Camden Comedy Club, before taking to the stage herself.

Now, feeling homesick for family, she's returned to Cardiff. In the course of the film, she visits her old school, finds a thriving queer scene in the city and prepares to perform a work-in-progress performance of her 2023 Edinburgh Fringe debut, Composition.