KASHISH over the past seven years has emerged as a path breaking platform to showcase qualitative Indian LGBTQ films, by not only screening them in Mumbai at the festival, but also facilitating [...]

KASHISH MIQFF 2016 winner heads to The Iris Prize Festival Marathi short film Daaravtha (The Threshold) directed by Nishant Roy Bombarde will compete for The Iris Prize – Cardiff’s [...]

 A new wave of Indie filmmakers are pushing the boundaries of Indian cinema with their fresh and edgier takes on contemporary society and culture. Eschewing patronage and subsidy, the filmmakers [...]

How to Win At Checkers (Every Time) directed by Korean-American director Josh Kim won the Best narrative Feature Film, while the Marathi film Daaravtha won the Best Indian Narrative Short Film at [...]

Star-studded opening night ceremony of South Asia’s biggest LGBT film fest British actor Sir Ian McKellen and Bollywood actor Sonam Kapoor on Wednesday May 25, 2016 inaugurated the seventh [...]

Academics Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai were bestowed the KASHISH Rainbow Warrior Award on May 29, 2016 at the KASHISH 2016 Closing Night Award Ceremony at Liberty Cinema. The awards, instituted [...]

Indian cinema in 2013 celebrated a centenary of films, but issues of censorship & barriers in freedom of expression continue to dog the industry. The problems become more immediate for [...]

QDirshti Film Grant, being launched at KASHISH 2016, is an artist grant to support an independent filmmaker based in India to make his/her next LGBTQ‐themed film. This is in continuation of [...]

Issues around section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, moved centrestage on the second day of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival 2016. South Asia’s biggest LGBT film festival is being [...]