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𝐊𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 - 𝐁𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐮𝐢𝐝, 𝐁𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮! Film Submissions to #KASHISH2023 is open now. https://filmfreeway.com/KASHISH2023 If you have a feature film, documentary or short film that is predominantly centered around LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,...
KASHISH QDrishti Film Grant to support to 3 LGBTQ+ films
Jury picks gay, lesbian and transgender focused films that is diverse and rooted in real-life experiences.
KASHISH launches its own LGBTQ+ OTT platform
KASHISH launches its own LGBTQ+ OTT platform45 Indian LGBTQ+ films available on the pay-per-view platform KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival has been at the forefront of Indian LGBTQ+ film space since it was founded in 2010. Now taking a step further to...
KASHISH QDrishti Film Grant 2022 ups its film grant to Rs.2,50,000
KASHISH QDrishti Film Grant offers production grants and mentoring to a LGBTQIA+ filmmakers to make their queer short films
KASHISH QDrishti Film Grant offers production grants and mentoring to a LGBTQIA+ filmmakers to make their queer short films
KASHISH 2022 AWARD WINNERS
Badhaai Do and Sheer Qorma lead a dazzling array of Indian LGBTQ+ films at KASHISH 2022
KASHISH 2022M South Asia’s biggest LGBTQ+ film festival will kick start June Pride Month on June 1st, screening around 194+ films from 53 Countries at Liberty Cinema (1-5), Alliance Française de Bombay (2-4) and online (3-12)
KASHISH 2022 Physical Screening
REGISTER TO ATTEND KASHISH 2022 You can now register to attend the physical screenings of KASHISH 2022 at Liberty Cinema (June 1-5) and Alliance Française de Bombay (June 2-4) with a full-festival pass that allows you entry to all programs at both the venues. Click on...
Opening & Closing Films 2022
Opening & Closing Films The Opening and Closing Films are bookends to the 4 ½ days of the festival and usually correlate to the theme of the festival. This year the theme is ‘Flights For Freedom’ and the opening film about a transwoman’s empowering journey is an...
Centerpiece Films 2022
Centerpiece Films The 2 Indian and 2 International Centerpiece Films – one each of narrative and documentary – represents not only a unique voice of an auteur, but presents a diverse point of view that is rarely seen, contextualizing today’s urgent narratives. Indian...
Be a part of KASHISH 2022!
Be a part of KASHISH 2022! Calling out to young and enthusiastic folx to join the Festival Team and Volunteers for the 13th edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival- South Asia’s biggest LGBTQIA+ film festival. KASHISH is a non-discriminatory space...
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To watch my movies with an audience in Mumbai was a very emotional experience and more overwhelming than I had expected. I have been to a lot of queer film festivals around the world and they can learn something from the way KASHISH is organized. It is wonderful.
KASHISH is the only mainstream queer film festival in India. By mainstream I mean where the films are screened at multiplexes and not in some institution or club. This is very significant as it brings lgbt films across the world to the community and audience in general so that there is not only more exposure to queer stories but it also in the longer run spreads awareness and acceptance.
It was a great time meeting local filmmakers, tasting some authentic food and generally understanding more about being LGBT in India. I’ve always believed that we live in a global village where most experiences are shared – but I also like diversity, that’s what I enjoyed during my time at KASHISH.
KASHISH is at the forefront of that change and is doing so much to change minds and hearts among the wider public, and to strengthen and nurture the LGBT community’s own perceptions of itself in terms of dignity and humanity.
KASHISH is the need of our times when a community gets represented through performing arts. Gay rights cannot only be won in the courtroom but it has to win hearts and minds of the people. Cinema is a powerful medium to achieve that and KASHISH has been doing that since 2010.
Film Festivals such as KASHISH must be protected and nurtured. Because it is a niche within the niche of film festivals. I am happy to be part of the jury of a festival of cinema that celebrates diversity and makes spaces for difference.
