Kashish 2022 Additional Films

COMING OUT WITH THE HELP OF A TIME MACHINE
Dir: Naman Gupta / 20 min / 2021 / Narrative Short / USA / English, Hindi

When coming out to his traditional and God-fearing Indian parents, Sid uses his time machine to reset the day trying to make sure everything goes perfect.

KEEP OFF THE GRASS
Dir: Francis Rudd / 10 min / 2022 / Narrative Short / United Kingdom / English

Sunny Cooper, an amateur football player, struggles to come to terms with his sexuality and as the final game of the season approaches, tensions rise. He and Josh, his teammate and love interest can’t bring themselves to embrace their connection in this environment. Sunny will have to fight not only for what he wants on the pitch, but also off it.

TEMPLE
Dir: Nick Virk / 18 min / 2021 / Narrative Short / United Kingdom / English 

Rehal’s love for Arul is unreciprocated, but Arul believes they can still be friends. One morning over breakfast, the two discuss finding acceptance as brown queer Londoners. They share a cultural understanding of being ostracized by the white heteronormativity of British society, and yet there is a fundamental difference between them.

WORK
Dir: April Maxey / 13 min / 2021 / Narrative Short / USA / English

Struggling to get over her ex-girlfriend, Gabriela impulsively decides to drop into an old job, where she unexpectedly runs into a friend from her past.

UNITY MOSQUE
Dir: Nicole Teeny / 7 min / 2020 / Documentary Short / USA, Canada / English

After having to hide their relationship while making the Hajj, El-Farouk—a gay Imam—and his husband Troy co-founded Unity Mosque in Toronto, one of the world’s first Queer-affirming and gender-equal mosques. Though the mosque receives death threats, it forges on, playing a life-saving role in the lives of its members.

MONOLOGUE (Monólogo)
Dir: Pilar García Elegido / 15 min / 2021 / Documentary Short / Spain / Spanish

“I was not born in the wrong body, I was born in the wrong society.” Josseline Aguilar, a Mexican trans activist, tells her story and also that of other trans women through a monologue.

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