KASHISH 2024
Event: 15th KASHISH Pride Film Festival or KASHISH 2024
Dates: May 15 – 19, 2024
Venue: Liberty Cinema, Alliance Française de Bombay and Cinepolis Andheri W
Theme: Unfurl Your Pride
No. of films/countries: 133 films from 46 countries
No. of Indian films: 33 Indian Films with 6 feature films!
Total Cash Awards: Rs 7,00,000 (US$ 8200)
Narrative Jury: Kiran Rao, Sonali Kulkarni & Barun Sobti
Documentary Jury: Kavita Bahl, Pushpendra Singh & Shilpi Gulati
Students Shorts Jury: Abhijit Majumdar, Gazal Dhaliwal & Shweta Basu Prasad
Riyad Wadia Award Jury: Nargis Wadia & Roy Wadia
Ismat Chugtai Award Jury: Ashish Sawhny
KASHISH QDrishti Jury: Amit Masurkar, Atika Chohan, Joy Sengupta & Neeraj Churi
WINNERS:
Best Narrative Feature: You Promised Me The Sea – Nadir Moknèche | France
Best Documentary Feature: Neirud – Fernanda Faya | Brazil
Best Documentary Short: Dear Sahithya – Leo Paapam | India
Best International Narrative Short: Breaking Through – Siham Bel | France
Best Indian Narrative Short: Night Queen – Naireeta Dasgupta | India
Riyad Wadia Award for Best Emerging Indian Filmmaker: Bonita Rajpurohit for IYKYK | India
Ismat Chughtai Award for Best Indian Woman Filmmaker: Naireeta Dasgupta for Night Queen | India
Aditya Nanda Award for Best Indian Film On Mental Health: Sifar – Edythe | India
Best Performance in a Lead Role: Samyuktha Vijayan for Blue Sunshine | India
Best Student Short Film: Poisoned Well – Radek Sevcik | Slovakia and MASC4MASC – Felix Augustine Greisinger | Sweden
Best Screenplay: Peter Ahlén & Jakob Holtet Stridbæk – The Wake | Denmark
KASHISH QDrishti Film Grant: The Witch Of Vihar Lake – Joey Kaushik | India
Best APQFFA Short Film Award: Dipped In Black – Matthew Thorne & Derik Lynch | Australia
Best Poster Design: Sithesh C Govind | India
SPECIAL MENTIONS:
Documentary Short: Maghreb’s Hope – Bassem Ben Brahim | Algeria, Brazil, Morocco, Tunisia
Performance in A Lead Role: Vipin Sharma – Night Queen | India and Bonita Rajpurohit – IYKYK | India
Student Short: Give – Kenya Gillespie | USA
Riyad Wadia Award: Abu Sohel Khondekar – Mehroon | India and Sarthak Chauhan – Chitthi | India
Kashish QDrishti Film Grant (Runners-Up): Ghadoli – Shubham Negi | India and Arre Ladies Hai – Arnab Nandy | India
Festival Catalog:
https://issuu.com/kashish/docs/kashish_festival_catalog
