KASHISH 2025

Event: 16th KASHISH Pride Film Festival or KASHISH 2025

Dates: June 4 – 8, 2025

Venue: Cinepolis Andheri W , Alliance Française de Bombay

Theme: Love = Peace

No. of films/countries: 152 Films from 48 Countries

No. of Indian films: 38 Indian Films with 5 feature films!

Total Cash Awards: Rs 7,05,000 (US$ 8,000)

KASHISH QDrishti Jury: Abhishek Chaubey, Guneet Monga, Vikramaditya Motwane & Neeraj Churi

Narrative Jury: Shishir Sharma, Shruti Seth & Tanuja Chandra

Documentary Jury: Bishakha Datta, Prateek Vats & Shubhra Chatterjee

Students Shorts Jury: Siddharth Menon, Sudhanshu Saria & Svetlana Naudiyal

Riyad Wadia Award Jury: Nargis Wadia & Roy Wadia

Ismat Chugtai Award Jury: Ashish Sawhny

Aditya Nanda Award Jury: Akshay Tyagi

Poster Contest Jury: Dalip Daswani

WINNERS:

KASHISH QDrishti Film Grant: Shubam Negi for Make-Up Room | India

Best Narrative Feature: Odd Fish – Snævar Sölvason | Iceland

Best Documentary Feature: Warm Film – Dragan Jovićević | Serbia

Best Documentary Short: B and S – Lipika Singh Darai | India

Best International Narrative Short: Violets (Violetas) – Borja Escribano | Spain

Best Indian Narrative Short: Jasmine That Blooms In Autumn – Chandradeep Das | India

Riyad Wadia Award for Best Emerging Indian Filmmaker: Saikat Mondal for Jalsa – The Name Day | India

Ismat Chughtai Award for Best Woman Filmmaker of Indian Origin: Shoi for Project Priyo and Joey Kaushik for The Witch of Vihar Lake | India

Aditya Nanda Award for Best Queer Film On Mental Health: After All – Chongyan Liu | UK, France, Germany

Best Performance in a Lead Role: Arna Magnea Danks for Odd Fish | Iceland

Best Student Short Film: Two Travelling Aunties – Christine Seow | Columbia, UK

Best Screenplay: Baby written by Gabriel Domingues And Marcelo Caetano | Brazil

Best Poster Design: Saman Me Kala | Auroville, India

SPECIAL MENTIONS:

KASHISH QDrishti Grant Runners-Up:
Rayyan Monkey for Us Girls and Varsha Panikar for Operation: Gulzar | India

Joao Pedro Mariano for Baby | Brazil (in the category Performance in a Lead Role)

Snævar Sölvason for Odd Fish | Iceland (in the category Best Screenplay)

Ana Berdeja for Sole | Mexico (in the category Best Screenplay)

Festival Catalog:
https://issuu.com/kashish/docs/kashish2025festivalcatalog