KASHISH 2023 DOCUMENTARY SHORTS IN COMPETITION
KASHISH 2023 is excited to present 5 Documentary Short Films in Competition from UK, USA, Germany, Israel, Cambodia!
The K.F.Patil Unity in Diversity Best Documentary Short Award carries a KASHISH Golden Butterfly Trophy and a cash prize of Rs.25,000 supported by K.F.Patil Charitable Trust.
Documentary Shorts Comp 1
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE
Dir: Lea Luiz De Oliveira
35 min / UK / English
Callie is an activist who uses her position in STEM to fight for trans* rights and representation. As she is about to start her medical transition, a diagnosis puts her health and her career into question, she embarks on a journey of self- acceptance and decides to use her music to inspire others.
BI THE WAY
Dir: Amir Ovadia Steklov
15 min / Germany, Israel / English
Bi The Way is a short, funny, and intimate animated film about Amir’s life-journey as a bisexual cis man – made in a Stop-Motion animation technique. The film tells Amir’s story from early childhood until present day, highlighting his struggle to fit into binary culture making him unacceptable to the hetero-normative community and invisible in the LGBTQIA community.
Documentary Shorts Comp 2
A BETTER PLACE
Dir: Jennifer Fearnley
33 min / UK / English, Hindi, Swahili
A Better Place is an in depth look at the toxic legacy of British colonial-era laws, which criminalise consensual same-sex love, while at the same time allowing perpetrators of sexual violence to go unpunished. More than 70 countries still criminalise gay sex. In over 30, rape within marriage is still legal. Behind these statistics are the people whose lives are paralysed by these archaic laws.
GOLDEN VOICE
Dir: Mars Verrone
18 min / Cambodia, USA / Central Khmer, English
Forty years after the Khmer Rouge regime, a transgender man returns to the village where he survived the genocide and miraculously found queer and trans community, including the love of his life.
HOLDING MOSES
Dir: Rivkah Beth Medow
17 min / USA / English
A Broadway performer becomes a mother, braiding rhythm and grief and time and joy on her path to connect with her profoundly disabled son. Randi is visually striking and presents as very masculine of center, which defies most people’s image of a mother. Her story blends parenting, family, queerness and disability; it is one rarely told in our culture.
