KASHISH 2026 Opening, Closing Films & Special Presentations

JIMPA
Dir: Sophie Hyde
113 MIN | 2025 | Australia, Netherlands, Finland | English | Narrative Feature

Jim (Lithgow) calls himself ‘Jimpa’ to escape the word ‘grandpa’ – true to type for this charming contrarian, who left his family to pursue a free, gay life in Amsterdam. His daughter Hannah (Olivia Colman), her non-binary teenager Frances and husband (Daniel Henshall) pay Jimpa a visit – both exposing and bridging generational gaps. Against the backdrop of the Amsterdam canals, Hannah tries to make her newest feature film: a tribute to her dad. Jimpa, in the meantime, is just being himself: a right he fought for. He encourages Frances to enjoy queer Amsterdam (encountering a few Dutch familiar faces, like Romana Vrede, Hans Kesting and Zoë Love Smith). Between the family members, things don’t go very smoothly – but isn’t that just how it is, when everyone’s truly being themselves?

Screening: Wednesday June 3, 9.30 PM | Liberty Cinema

Supported by: Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Australian Consulate-General in Mumbai

MASPALOMAS
Dirs: Aitor Arregi, Jose Mari Goenaga
115 MIN | 2025 | Spain | Spanish | Narrative Feature

Vicente, now 76 years old, came out of the closet and left his wife and daughter when he was 50. He has spent the last 25 years living happily with his partner in Maspalomas in Gran Canaria. However, everything is turned upside down when Vicente suffers a stroke that leaves him in a coma. When he wakes up, he is faced with an unexpected reality: he has been moved back to Donostia, and his daughter has placed him in a nursing home. Vicente decides not to offer any explanation about his sexual orientation. At first, he doesn’t think it’s necessary. And so, almost without realizing it, Vicente returns to where he started–he goes back into the closet, renouncing everything he worked so hard to achieve.

Screening: Sunday June 7, 9.30 PM | Liberty Cinema

Supported by: Tourism Office of Spain in India

LSD 2: LOVE, SEX AUR DHOKHA 2
Dir: Dibakar Banerjee
119 MIN | 2024 | India | Hindi | Narrative Feature

In a high-tech world, three interwoven stories revolve around identity, online intimacy and the allure of social media. Focuses on the theme of “Love in the Times of the Internet,” which explores the difficulties and complexities that define modern relationships in our highly technology society. The film follows the lives of individuals as they deal with the complexities of modern love, friendship, and self-discovery.

Screening: Thursday June 4, 7.15 PM | Liberty Cinema

PERFORMING THE GODDESS: CHAPAL BHADHURI’S STORY
Dir: Naveen Kishore
44 MIN | 1999 | India | Bengali | Documentary Short

Chapal Bhaduri alias Chapal Rani or Queen Chapal, leading lady of Bengal’s traditional folk travelling theatre-in-the-round, the Jatra, spent his life playing women. Until history changed tradition and women began to play female roles themselves. Out of work, ageing, he turned to a new livelihood: that of playing Sitala, the dreaded goddess of pox and disease, in dramatized performances of the goddess’s sacred saga. This intimate video biography introduces us to a great performer, reminiscing about the world of Jatra, discussing what it meant to be a woman night after night, talking for the first time of the woman inside his male body, of troubled sexuality, of a long domestic partnership with his older lover, of the essential loneliness of living as a human being on the edges of conventional society.

Screening: Friday June 5, 5.45 PM | NGMA

LOVE & REVOLUTION (Te estoy amando locamente)
Dir: Alejandro Marín
108 MIN | 2023 | Spain | Spanish | Country Focus Opening Feature

Seville, 1977. Reme is proud that her son Miguel is going to become the first person in the family to go to university. But what Miguel really wants is to be an artiste and sing in a popular television competition. At a time when in Spain homosexuality is a crime, Reme will also discover who her son’s new friends are: the incipient Andalusian LGTBI movement, which paradoxically arose in the bosom of the Church.

Screening: Thursday June 4, 2.30 PM | Liberty Cinema

Supported by: Tourism Office of Spain in Mumbai