KASHISH 2016 List Of Films (Alphabetical)
KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, South Asia’s biggest and India’s only mainstream LGBT film fest will be held from May 25-29, 2016. The 7th edition of the festival will screen 182 films from 53 countries. The film festival will be held at three venues – Mumbai’s iconic art deco Liberty theatre, Alliance Francaise de Bombay and Max Mueller Bhavan.
Films in Competition
Films in Competition for Riyad Wadia Award for Emerging Indian Filmmaker
Opening Film
| The 101 Transgender Project | Dir: Ashish Sawhny / 2015/12 min/ India / Documentary Short |
| Aavahan – Voices From The Fringe | Dir: Bindumadhav Khire / 2015/ 15 min/ India / Documentary Short |
| An Act Of Love | Dir: Scott Sheppard / 2015/ 86 min/ USA / Documentary Feature |
| An Afternoon (Original Title: En Eftermiddag) | Dir: Soren Green / 2014/ 8 min/ Denmark / Narrative Short |
| Against The Night | Dir: Anthony Supreme / 2014/ 4 min/ USA / Musical Short |
| Akron | Dir: Sasha King, Brian O’Donnell / 2015/ 88 min/ USA, Ireland /Narrative Feature |
| Aligarh | Dir: Hansal Mehta / 2015/ 114 min/ India Narrative Feature |
| All About Love | Dir: Tejashri Joshi / 2016/ 15 min/ India / Documentary Short |
| All Cats Are Pink In The Dark (Original Title: La Nuit, Tous Les Chats Sont Roses) | Dir: Guillaume Renusson / 2015/ 20 min/ France / Narrative Short |
| Amar: Deaf Is An Identity | Dir: David Ng / 2015/ 5 min/ Canada / Documentary Short |
| Anjali: How Long Can Someone Live In Other’s Skin | Dir: Mohan Rai / 2015/ 35 min/ Nepal / Documentary Short |
| Any Other Day | Dir: Srikant Ananthkrishnan, Vikrant Dhote / 2015/ 12 min/ India / Narrative Short |
| Back Again (Original Title: De Vuelta) | Dir: Gabriel Dorado / 2015/ 13 min/ Spain / Narrative Short |
| Baggage | Dir: Sarah Ball / 2015/ 15 min/ UK, USA / Narrative Short |
| Bathroom Break | Dir: Cecilia Perez-Homar / 2015/ 2 min/ UK / Narrative Short |
| Beautiful Something | Dir: Joseph Graham / 2015/ 92 min/ USA / Narrative Feature |
| Bed Buddies | Dir: Reid Waterer / 2016/ 16 min/ USA / Narrative Short |
| Benjamin | Dir: Sherren Lee / 2015/ 16 min/ Canada / Narrative Short |
| Better Half | Dir: Michelle Clay / 2015/ 109 min/ USA / Narrative Feature |
| Betty | Dir: Kristiina Kello / 2015/ 9 min/ UK / Narrative Short |
| Between Silences (Original Title: Entre Les Silences) | Dir: Siham Bel and Axel Ducret / 2015/ 15 min/ France / Narrative Short |
| Beyond The Looking Glass | Dir: Carolina de Azevedo / 2014/ 15 min/ Brazil / Documentary Short |
| Bits + Pieces : Andy | Dir: Anto Gamunev / 2015/ 7 min/ Puerto Rico / Narrative Short |
| Blind Date | Dir: Adrienne Lovette / 2015/ 8 min/ USA / Narrative Short |
| Boys In Brazil | Dir: Alexandre Carvalho / 2015/ 92 min/ Brazil / Narrative Feature |
| Bread Of Life | Dir: Sergio García Locatelli / 2015/ 7 min/ Peru, Spain / Documentary Short |
| Buddy | Dir: Niels Bourgonje / 2016/ 12 min/ The Netherlands / Narrative Short |
| Carmen | Prod: OTOXO Productions/ 2015/ 5 min/ Spain / Documentary Short |
| Carol | Dir: Todd Haynes / 2015/ 118 min/ UK, USA / Narrative Feature |
| Chariot Riders | Dir: Kate Jessop / 2015/ 5 min/ UK / Animation Short |
| Clinch (Original Title: Ringen) | Dir: Manuel Meinhardt / 2015/ 5 min/ Germany / Narrative Short |
| Closets | Dir: Lloyd Eyre-Morgan / 2015/ 18 min/ UK / Narrative Short |
| Coming In | Dir: Marlies Demeulandre / 2015/ 55 min/ France / Documentary Feature |
| The Cricket And The Ant (Original Title: La Cigale Et La Fourmi) | Dir: Julia Ritschel / 2015/ 15 min/ Germany / Narrative Short |
| Daddy | Dir: Gerald McCullouch / 2015/ 89 min/ USA / Narrative Feature |
| Dancing Queens: It’s All About Family | Dir: Jeff Roy / 2016/ 17 min/ India, USA / Documentary Short |
| Dawn | Dir: Jake Graf / 2016/ 13 min/ UK / Narrative Short |
| Dear Drew | Dir: Dylan Shapiro, Maddy Laing / 2015/ 5 min/ USA / Narrative Short |
| The Definition Of Lonely | Dir: Leon Lopez / 2015/ 12 min/ UK / Narrative Short |
| Desires (Original Title: Désirs) | Dir: Yannick Nolin, Clarissa Rebouças / 2015/ 8 min/ France / Narrative Short |
| Dinner Confession (Original Title: 親密告白) | Dir: Chih-Jen Lin / 2015/ 12 min/ Taiwan / Narrative Short |
| Dunno Y 2… Life Is A Moment | Dir: Tonje Gjevjon, Sanjay Sharma / 2015/ 103 min/ India, Norway/ Narrative Feature |
| Easy Reappearance (Original Title: Résurgence Commode) | Dir: Guillaume Levil / 2015/ 17 min/ France / Narrative Short |
| Ecstasy | Dir: Kyle Reaume / 2015/ 5 min/ Canada / Narrative Short |
| Equal Justice Under Law | Dir: Dan Goldes / 2015/ 4 min/ USA / Documentary Short |
| Koti | Dir: Suhas Bhosale / 2015/ 126 min/ India /Narrative Feature |
| Everything’s Alright (Original Title: Wszystko w Porządku) | Dir: Sandeep Rampal Balhara / 2015/ 27 min/ Poland / Narrative Short |
| Falling Angels (Original Title: Som Engle Vi Falder) | Dir: Maria Winther Olsen / 2015/ 28 min/ Denmark, Faroe Islands / Narrative Short |
| Family Values | Dir: Val Singhal / 2015/ 4 min/ USA / Narrative Short |
| Five Days In New York – Gay Pride On The Hudson River | Dir: André Schäfer, Oliver Bätz / 2014/ 52 min/ Germany, USA / Documentary Feature |
| Floating Melon (Original Title: Fu Guo) | Dir: Roberto F. Canuto, Xu Xiaoxi / 2015/ 19 min/ China, Spain / Narrative Short |
| Floozy Suzy (Original Title: Vagabunda De Meia Tigel) | Dir: Otavio Chamorro / 2015/ 25 min/ Brazil / Narrative Short |
| Flor De Chasna | Dir: Fidel Galbán del Val, Luis Javier López Miranda/ 2016/ 21 min/ Spain / Narrative Short |
| Forgetfulness | Dir: Mayur Katariya / 2015/ 8 min/ Australia / Narrative Short |
| From Him | Dir: Ben Laor / 2014/ 18 min/ Israel / Narrative Short |
| Front Cover | Dir: Ray Yeung / 2015/ 87 min/ USA / Narrative Feature |
| Gay (Original Title: Magizhvan) | Dir: Mani Shankar Iyer / 2015/ 56 min/ India / Narrative Feature |
| The Gay Bombay Talent Show | Dir: Ashish Sawhny / 2015/4 min/ India / Documentary Short |
| Ghost Empire § Cyprus | Dir: Susan Thomson / 2015/35 min/ Cyprus, Ireland, Turkey / Documentary Short |
| God’s Mistake (Original Title: Božja Napaka) | Dir: Matarranz Eva, Anna Savchenko / 2014/23 min/ Croatia, Slovenia / Documentary Short |
| He Who Has Two Souls | Dir: Fabrice Luang-Vija / 2015/ 17 mins / France / Animation Short |
| Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party | Dir: Stephen Cone / 2015/ 87 min/ USA / Narrative Feature |
| Here Come The Brides – The Same-Sex Marriage In Brazil | Dir: Gabi Torrezani, Fabia Fuzeti / 2015/ 50 min/ Brazil / Documentary Feature |
| Heterosexual Jill | Dir: Michelle Ehlen / 2013/ 80 min/ USA / Narrative Feature |
| Hiraeth | Dir: Ashish Sawhny, Anisha Lanewala & Shefali Jamwal / 2015/15 min/ India / Documentary Short |
| Hole | Dir: Martin Edralin / 2015/ 15 min/ Canada/ Narrative Short |
| Homogen (Admitting My Difference) | Dir: Isabelle Courville / 2015/ 9 min/ Canada / Documentary Short |
| Homogen (Loving Your Difference) | Dir: Isabelle Courville / 2015/ 11 min/ Canada / Documentary Short |
| How To Be Alone | Dir: Erez Eisenstein / 2015/ 22 min/ Israel / Narrative Short |
| How To Win At Checkers (Every Time) | Dir: Josh Kim / 2015/ 80 min/ Thailand, USA, Indonesia / Narrative Feature |
| I Am Not He, She.. (Original Title: Nanu Avanalla Avalu) | Dir: B.S. Lingadevaru / 2015/ 115 min/ India / Narrative Feature |
| I Am What I Am | Prod: Equal Ground / 2014/28 min/ Sri Lanka / Documentary Short |
| I Love You. Thank You | Dir: Charliebebs Gohetia / 2015/ 110 min/ Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand / Narrative Feature |
| In Return | Dir: Benjamin Wacksmann / 2013/ 18 min/ France / Narrative Short |
| In The Hollow | Dir: Austin Bunn / 2015/15 min/ USA / Documentary Short |
| In The Mood For Love | Dir: Sandeep Kr. Singh, Aakriti Kohli / 2015/29 min/ India / Documentary Short |
| Inner Jellyfishes | Dir: Marc-Antoine Lemire / 2015/ 24 min/ Canada / Narrative Short |
| Into The Details | Dir: Samer Nouh / 2013/ 21 min/ Lebanon / Narrative Short |
| It’s Nothing! (Original Title: No Es Nada!) | Dir: Jose Antonio Cortes / 2015/ 12 min/ Spain / Narrative Short |
| Johanna | Dir: Till Gombert / 2014/ 8 min/ Germany / Narrative Short |
| Julie | Dir: Clanch Dayve Belleza / 2015/ 23 min/ Philippines / Narrative Short |
| Julie | Dir: Ran Li / 2015/ 9 min/ Czech Republic, China / Narrative Short |
| Just Another Love Story | Dir: Prashansa Gurung / 2015/7 min/ India / Documentary Short |
| Keep Your Head Up | Dir: Neil Browne / 2015/ 4 min/ Ireland / Narrative Short |
| Kry | Dir: Ylvaa Johansson / 2013/15 min/ Turkey / Documentary Short |
| Lazarus Come Out (Original Title: Lazzaro Vieni Fuori) | Dir: Lorenzo Caproni / 2015/ 14 min/ Italy / Narrative Short |
| Left To Their Senses | Dir: Cecilia Guichart / 2015/ 17 min/ Luxembourg, Belgium / Narrative Short |
| Lethargy | Dir: Xavier Miralles / 2015/ 20 min/ Spain / Narrative Short |
| Life’s A Drag… | Dir: Robin Royce Queree / 2015/ 8 min/ Australia / Narrative Short |
| Little Elephant | Dir: Kate Jessop / 2015/ 5 min/ UK / Animation Short |
| Lost And Found | Dir: Zeng Lei / 2015/ 34 min/ China / Narrative Short |
| Lost Years (Original Title: Los Años Perdidos) | Dir: Alejandro Beltrán / 2015/ 21 min/ Spain / Narrative Short |
| Major! | Dir: Annalise Ophelian / 2015/ 91 min/ USA / Documentary Feature |
| Manam | Dir: Balaji M / 2015/ 13 min/ India / Narrative Short |
| The Massage (Original Title: El Masaje) | Dir: Rodrigo Canet/ 2013/ 6 min/ Spain / Narrative Short |
| Mirror | Dir: Panha S. Theng / 2015/ 6 min/ Mynmar / Narrative Short |
| Mirrors | Dir: Neil Ely / 2015/ 11 min/ UK / Narrative Short |
| Mx. Pink | Dir: Marga Congreso / 2015/ 14 min/ France / Narrative Short |
| My Child Is Gay, I Am Happy | Dir: Sopan Muller / 2016/38 min/ India / Documentary Short |
| My Name Is Jacque (Original Title: Meu Nome É Jacque) | Dir: Angela Zoé / 2015/ 76 min/ Brazil / Documentary Feature |
| Naz & Maalik | Dir: Jay Dockendorf / 2015/ 86 min/ USA / Narrative Feature |
| No Matter Who (Original Title: A Qui La Faute) | Dir: Anne-Claire Jaulin / 2015/ 19 min/ France / Narrative Short |
| Normalcy | Dir: V.Ramanathan / 2015/16 min/ India / Documentary Short |
| Now They’re Two | Dir: Manuel Ayosa / 2015/ 19 min/ Argentina / Narrative Short |
| NXS | Dir: Maximiliano Martiniau / 2015/ 20 min/ Argentina / Narrative Short |
| Obsession | Dir: Ben Oliver/ 2013/ 4 min/ Canada / Narrative Short |
| Oh, I Get It | Dir: Danny Tayara, Sara McCaslin / 2015/9 min/ USA / Documentary Short |
| The Orchid (Original Title: La Orquídea) | Dir: Ferran Navarro-Beltrán / 2016/ 3 mins / Spain / Narrative Short |
| Oriented | Dir: Jake Witzenfeld / 2015/ 86 min/ Israel, UK / Documentary Feature |
| Out Again | Dirs: Tai Payne, Greg Chu, Emma McKittrick / 2014/ 5 min/ USA / Narrative Short |
| The Owls | Dir: Natalia Bougadellis / 2016/ 10 min/ Greece / Narrative Short |
| Pansy! (Original Title: Les Pensees De Paul) | Dir: Jean-Baptiste Erreca / 2015/ 68 min/ France / Documentary Feature |
| Paper And Jeans (Original Title: Sobre Papéis) | Dir: Pedro Paulo de Andrade / 2014/ 22 min/ Brazil / Narrative Short |
| Perpetual (Original Title: Mørke Rum) | Dir: Peter Ahlén Lavrsen / 2015/ 26 min/ Denmark / Narrative Short |
| Piece Of Naan | Dir: Rijaa Nadeem / 2015/ 12 min/ Pakistan, USA / Narrative Short |
| Pink Boy | Dir: Eric Rockey / 2015/15 min/ USA / Documentary Short |
| Pink Dads | Dir: Popo fan / 2015/20 min/ China / Documentary Short |
| Portraits From Mykonos | Dir: Daniele Sartori / 2015/38 min/ Italy / Documentary Short |
| Portrait Of A Serial Monogamist | Dir: John Mitchell, Christina Zeidler/ 2015/ 84 min/ USA / Narrative Feature |
| Pride And Prejudice And Pandemonium | Dir: Parthiban Shanmugam / 2015/8 min/ USA / Documentary Short |
| Project Indian Bride | Dir: Mujeer Pasha / 2015/ 38 min/ India / Narrative Short |
| The Quietness (Original Title: Calmaria) | Dir: William de Oliveira / 2015/ 10 min/ Brazil / Narrative Short |
| Raising Owen: A Genderqueer Love Story | Dir: Meg Brown / 2015/9 min/ USA / Documentary Short |
| Reaching For The Moon | Dir: Bruno Barreto / 2013/ 118 min/ Brazil / Narrative Feature |
| Read Aloud | Dir: Blake Pruitt / 2015/ 15 min/ USA / Narrative Short |
| Rotten | Dir: Mehmet Selcuk Bilge / 2015/18 min/ Turkey / Documentary Short |
| Roxanne | Dir: Paul Frankl / 2015/ 14 min/ UK / Narrative Short |
| Run For The Truth | Dir: Damien Steck / 2015/ 21 min/ USA / Narrative Short |
| San Cristóbal | Dir: Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo / 2015/ 29 min/ Chile / Narrative Short |
| Sandclock | Dir: Deepak Miglani / 2016/ 25 min/ India / Narrative Short |
| Sangini | Dir: Nancy Nicol / 2015/45 min/ India, Canada / Documentary Short |
| Sauna The Dead – A Fairy Tale | Dir: Tom Frederic / 2016/ 20 min/ UK / Narrative Short |
| Scarlines | Dir: Stephanie Young/ 2013/ 20 min/ Canada / Narrative Short |
| Setting Them Straight | Dir: Kaleb McKenna / 2015/ 6 min/ Australia / Narrative Short |
| Shared Rooms | Dir: Rob Williams / 2016/ 75 min/ USA / Narrative Feature |
| She And I | Dir: Zehavit Sabag / 2016/ 5 min/ Israel / Narrative Short |
| She-Wolves (Original Title: Lobas) | Dir: Patricia Howell / 2015/ 27 min/ Costa Rica / Narrative Short |
| Shunned | Dir: Igal Hecht / 2016/47 min/ Canada / Documentary Short |
| Skin And Bone | Dir: Augustin Lobet / 2015/9 min/ Australia / Documentary Short |
| Speak | Dir: Marc Saltarelli / 2016/ 22 min/ USA/ Narrative Short |
| Spoken In Jest (Original Title: Entre Broma y Broma) | Dir: Rolando Treviño / 2014/ 6 min/ Mexico / Narrative Short |
| Spunkle | Dir: Lisa Donato / 13 min/ 2016/ USA / Narrative Short |
| Staccato | Dir: Eoghan McQuinn / 2015/ 23 min/ Ireland / Narrative Short |
| Stay Over | Dir: Michal Haggiag/ 2015/ 10 min/ Israel / 2015 / Narrative Short |
| Submarine (Original Title: Submarino) | Dir: Rafael Aidar/ 2015/ 20 min/ Brazil / / Narrative Short |
| Tab Hunter Confidential | Dir: Jeffrey Schwarz / 2015/ 90 min/ USA/ Documentary Feature |
| A Tale With Christ And Jesus | Dir: Oldren Romero / 2015/ 30 min/ Cuba / Narrative Short |
| Technical Difficulties Of Intimacy | Dir: Joel Moffett/ 2015/ 19 min/ USA / Narrative Short |
| That One Night | Dir: Karan Vohra / 2016/ 7 min/ India / Narrative Short |
| That’s My Boy | Dir: Akhil Sathyan / 2015/24.20 min/ India / Documentary Short |
| This Is You And Me | Dir: April Maxey /2015/ 16 min/ USA / Narrative Short |
| Those People | Dir: Joey Kuhn / 2015/ 89 min/ USA / Narrative Feature |
| The Threshold (Original Title: Daaravtha) | Dir: Nishant Roy Bombarde / 2015/ 30 min/ India / Narrative Short |
| To Mum (Love, Me) | Dir: Joyene Nazatul / 2015/17 min/ Singapore / 2015 / Narrative Short |
| Tom In America | Dir: Flavio Alves / 2014/ 16.26 mins/ USA, Brazil / Narrative Short |
| Trade Queen | Dir: David Wagner/ 2015/ 8 min/ Germany / Narrative Short |
| Transindia | Dir: Meera Darji / 2015/30 min/ India, UK / Documentary Short |
| Trans’it | Dir: Carlos Rodriguez / 2015/34 min/ Dominican Republic / Documentary Short |
| Transition Day | Dir: James Sharpe/ 2015/ 6 min/ USA / Narrative Short |
| Tri-Curious | Dir: Matt Guerin/ 2016/ 8 min/ Canada / Narrative Short |
| Two Girls Descending The Stairs (Original Title: Nós Duas Descendo A Escada) | Dir: Fabiano de Souza / 2015/ 108 min/ Brazil / Narrative Feature |
| Untold Unheard Story (Original Title: Unkahi Unsuni Kahani) | Dir: Nakshatra Bagwe / 2016/ 7 min/ India / Musical Short |
| Veiled (Original Title: Schleierhaft) | Dir: Tim Ellrich / 2014/ 14 min/ Germany, Austria / Narrative Short |
| Vessels | Dir: Arkasha Stevenson / 2015/ 15 min/ USA/ Narrative Short |
| Viktor | Dir: Ann Prim / 2016/ 11.01 min/ USA / 2016 / Narrative Short |
| Walking The Walk | Dir: Moses Tulasi / 2015/33 min/ India / Documentary Short |
| Want It | Dir: Lee Haven Jones / 2014/ 12 min/ UK / Narrative Short |
| We Could Be Parents (Original Title: Vi Skulle Bli Bra Föräldrar) | Dir: Björn Elgerd / 2016/ 15 min/Sweden / Narrative Short |
| Wedlocked | Dir: Puppett / 2015/ 12 min/ USA / Narrative Short |
| Weird Is Who’s Not Weird (Original Title: Raro El Que No Es Raro) | Dir: Cristopher Carballo Lerma / 2015/ 16 min/ Mexico / Narrative Short |
| Welcome Home (Original Title: Una Historia de Familia) | Dir: Pablo Rogero / 2015/ 63 min/ Spain, USA/ Documentary Feature |
| Where The Blue Lotus Blooms… | Prod: SMCS (TISS) / 2015/25 min/ India / Documentary Short |
| While You Weren’t Looking | Dir: Catherine Stewart / 2015/ 89 min/ South Africa / Narrative Feature |
| Who’s That Girl? (Original Title: Quién Es Esa Chica?) | Dir: Luciana Bitencourt / 2015/10 min/ Spain / Documentary Short |
| Why We Ran From Iran | Dir: Veyron Pax / 2015/13 min/ Iran, Turkey / Documentary Short |
| The Wig (Original Title: La Perruque) | Dir: Karim Boukhari / 2015/ 19 min/ Morocco / Narrative Short |
| A Woman At A Piano | Dir: Golnaz Jamsheed / 2013/ 1.20 min/ UK / 2013 / Narrative Short |
| Women In Vaivén | Dir: Cecilia Pérez-Homar / 2015/ 13 min/ UK / 2015 / Narrative Short |
| You. Me. Bathroom. Sex. Now | Dir: Francisco Lupini-Basagoiti / 2015/ 18 min/ USA / Narrative Short |
| You, Me And Him (Original Title: Café Com Leite) | Dir: Daniel Ribeiro / 2007/ 18 min/ Brazil / Narrative Short |
| Zulema | Dir: Angel Molina / 2015/ 11 min/ Paraguay / Narrative Short |
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