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Kashish Pride Film Festival
Wednesday, 15 May 2024 until Sunday, 19 May 2024
The 15th edition of KASHISH Pride Film Festival (earlier known as KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival) will be held as an on-ground festival in Mumbai from June 5 to June 9 2024, followed by a virtual festival (dates to be announced).
KASHISH is committed to showcasing films by, about, and of interest to the LGBTQIA+ community and we specially encourage film submissions from women; people of color; transgender, intersex, asexual & non-binary people; and other underrepresented communities.
The Festival is produced by KASHISH Arts Foundation, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to the exhibition, distribution, funding and promotion of LGBTQIA+ films, alongwith Solaris Pictures.
Before submitting you will have an option to select only physical or both physical and virtual, and also if you wish to have your film geo-blocked.
Please read the submission guidelines carefully and submit ONLY if your film is eligible.
𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙆𝘼𝙎𝙃𝙄𝙎𝙃 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙢 𝙁𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡
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KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival is now 𝐊𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥.
KASHISH is turning 15 years in 2024 and we wanted to celebrate it by being more Inclusive with a change of name and identity.
The festival is being renamed from KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival to 𝐊𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 to reflect the contemporary aspirations of the LGBTQIA+ community, underlining the fact that the festival and its allied activities offer pride, hope and dignity.
KASHISH Pride Film Festival is the first LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, Intersex, Asexual) film festival in India to be held in a mainstream theater, and the first LGBTQIA+ film festival in India to receive clearance from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
KASHISH Pride Film Festival, now considered South Asia’s biggest LGBTQIA+ film festival and one of world’s top 5 coolest LGBTQIA+ film festival, has over the past 14 editions become one of the biggest pride events in India.
Founded in 2010, the festival has grown from strength to strength, attracting close to 9000 footfalls over the 4 1/2 days of the festival at two/three venues. The festival, every year, has screened 110 - 180 films that include shorts, documentaries, features - all centered around LGBTQIA+ themes. The festival also attracts topline Bollywood celebrities, prominent filmmakers and media personalities, and receives every year over 150 write-ups in mainstream press in India and globally.
More information at http://mumbaiqueerfest.com
KASHISH Pride Film Festival has both Competitive and Non-Competitive categories.
KASHISH Pride Film Festival awards around Rs.2,00,000 lacs (US$2500) in cash prizes – the largest total amount awarded by any LGBTQIA+ film festival in the Indian subcontinent.
The Competition Categories are:
- Best Narrative Feature
- Best Documentary Feature
- Best Documentary Short
- Best Indian Narrative Short
- Best International Narrative Short
- Riyad Wadia Award for Best Emerging Indian Filmmaker
- Ismat Chughtai Award for Best Indian Woman Filmmaker
- Best Performance in a Lead Role
- Best Screenplay
- Best Student Short Film
- KASHISH QDrishti Film Grant
The winners will be selected by panels of eminent Jury members. The decision of the Juries will be final and is indisputable.
2024 films...
| NARRATIVE FEATURES | |
|---|---|
| ARE WE LOST FOREVER | Dir: David Färdmar / 113 min / 2020 / Sweden / Swedish |
| * BLUE SUNSHINE | Dir: Samyuktha Vijayan / 98 min / 2023 / India / Tamil |
| DAYS OF HAPPINESS (Les Jours heureux) | Dir: Chloé Robichaud / 118 min / 2023 / Canada (Quebec) / French |
| * DUINO | Dirs: Juan Pablo Di Pace, Andrés Pepe Estrada / 108 min / 2023 / Italy, USA / English |
| DVAMDVA (Duality) | Dir: Kling Johnson / 119 min / 2023 / India / Kannada |
| F.L.Y. | Dirs: Rafael Albarran, Trent Kendrick / 114 min / 2023 / USA / English |
| HAILEY ROSE | Dir: Sandi Somers / 93 min / 2023 / Canada / English |
| HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS | Dir: Goran Stolevski / 107 min / 2023 / North Macedonia, Sweden, Kosovo, Poland, Serbia, Croatia, United States, Australia / Macedonian, Romany, Albanian, French |
| KAATHAL THE CORE | Dir: Jeo Baby / 114 min / 2023 / India / Malayalam |
| * KATLAA CURRY (કટલા કરી) | Dir: Rohit Ganesh Prajapati / 110 min / 2024 / India / Gujarati |
| KUCH SAPNEY APNE (Dreams Such As Ours) | Dir: Sridhar Rangayan / 120 min / 2024 / India, Sweden / Hindi, English |
| MUTT | Dir: Vuk Lungulov-Klotz / 87 min / 2023 / USA / English, Spanish |
| ONENESS | Dir: Priyakanta Laishram / 114 min / 2024 / India / Manipuri |
| PEAFOWL | Dir: Sungbin Byun / 114 min / 2021 / Korea, Republic of / Korean |
| QUEEN TUT | Dir: Reem Morsling / 91 min / 2023 / Canada / English, Arabic |
| RIVIÈRE | Dir: Hugues Hariche / 104 min / 2023 / Switzerland, France / French, Russian |
| SAHELA (Companion) | Dir: Raghuvir Joshi / 93 min / 2023 / Australia / English |
| * SINCE THE LAST TIME WE MET (Desde la ultima vez que nos vimos) | Dir: Matias De Leis Correa / 81 min / 2023 / Argentina / Spanish |
| SPIRIT OF ECSTASY (La Vénus d'argent) | Dir: Héléna Klotz / 95 min / 2023 / France / French |
| * THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS | Dir: Fawzia Mirza / 96 min / 2023 / Canada, Pakistan / English, Urdu |
| TURTLES (Les Tortues) | Dir: David Lambert / 83 min / 2023 / Belgium, Canada / English, French |
| * YOU PROMISED ME THE SEA (L'air de la mer rend libre) | Dir: Nadir Moknèche / 90 min / 2023 / France / French |
| DOCUMENTARY FEATURES | |
| * AKOE/AMFI - THE STORY OF A REVOLUTION (*Just to sleep on their chest...) ΑΚΟΕ/ΑΜΦΙ - Η Ιστορία Μιας Επανάστασης (*Να κοιμάμαι στο στήθος του...) |
Dir: Iossif Vardakis / 77 min / 2023 / Greece / Modern Greek |
| * BEYOND THE BLUES | Dir: Debalina Majumder / 63 min / 2023 / India / Bengali |
| BLUE ID (Γαλάζια ταυτότητα) | Dirs: Vuslat Karan, Burcu Melekoglu / 84 min / 2022 / Turkey / Turkish |
| * CHASING CHASING AMY | Dir: Sav Rodgers / 95 min / 2023 / USA / English |
| HOW TO TELL A SECRET | Dirs: Anna Rodgers, Shaun Dunne / 99 min / 2022 / Ireland / English |
| I AM SIRAT | Dirs: Deepa Mehta, Sirat Taneja / 87 min / 2023 / India, Canada / Punjabi |
| * LADY LIKE | Dir: Luke Willis / 108 min / 2024 / UK, USA / English |
| LESVIA | Dir: Tzeli Hadjidimitriou / 70 min / 2024 / Greece / Greek, English, French, Italian |
| * NEIRUD | Dir: Fernanda Faya / 72 min / 2023 / Brazil / Portuguese |
| STUDIO ONE FOREVER | Dir: Marc Saltarelli / 94 min / 2022 / USA / English |
| TOPS | Dir: Amy Pennington, Jos Bitelli / 66 min / 2023 / UK / English |
| DOCUMENTARY SHORTS | |
| CITY OF MIRAGE | Dirs: Anjani Chadha, Niv / 5 min / 2023 / India / English |
| * DEAR SAHITHYA | Dir: Leo Paapam / 23 min / 2023 / India / English, Hindi |
| DIPPED IN BLACK (Marungka Tjalatjunu) | Dir: Matthew Thorne, Derik Lynch / 24 min / 2023 / Australia / Yankunytjatjara |
| EVERYONE'S WELCOME | Dir: Suhit Bombaywala / 20 min / 2024 / India / English, Hindi, Marathi |
| HUES & BLUES | Dir: Vinayakram C / 46 min / 2024 / India / Bengali, English, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu |
| I FOUND MY YELLOW | Dir: Shin Thandar / 15 min / 2024 / Myanmar / Burmese |
| * MAGHREB'S HOPE | Dir: Bassem Ben Brahim / 24 min / 2023 / Algeria, Brazil, Morocco, Tunisia / Arabic |
| OUR BABY: A MODERN MIRACLE | Dir: Gussy Sakula-Barry / 47 min / 2021 / UK / English |
| * POISONED WELL | Dir: Radek Ševčík / 14 min / 2023 / Slovakia / Czech, Slovak |
| REMEMBERING THE GLADE | Dir: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson / 7 min / 2024 / Hawai'i / English |
| TED AND NOEL | Dir: Julia Alcamo / 25 min / 2023 / UK / English |
| * THE ABCS OF BOOK BANNING | Dir: Sheila Nevins / 27 min / 2023 / USA / English |
| * THE BUS DRIVER | Dir: Ku Ki / 22 min / 2024 / Myanmar / Burmese |
| THE PRIDE LIAR | Dir: Andres Lubbert / 19 min / 2023 /Belgium / Dutch, English, Georgian |
| * THEIR VOICE | Dir: Megan Rossman / 14 min / 2023 / USA / English |
| THERE ARE THINGS TO DO | Dir: Mike Syers / 18 min / 2023 / USA / English |
| UNNAMED (بی نام ) | Dir: Iranmehr Salimi / 13 min / 2022 / Iran, Islamic Republic of / Persian |
| ZOYA | Dir: Harsh Shamal Matondkar / 5 min / 2023 / India / English, Hindi |
| INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORTS | |
| 302 | Dir: Leon Cheo / 16 min / 2024 / Singapore / English |
| A | Dir: Kalpit Patel / 13 min /2024 / Canada / English |
| * ALIKIJA (علیکیجا ) | Dir: Hamid Vatanparast / 15 min / 2023 / Iran, Islamic Republic of / Persian |
| * ALL THE WORDS BUT THE ONE | Dir: Nava Mau / 18 min / 2024 / USA / English |
| ASYLUM | Dir: Lionel Onyekwere / 19 min / 2023 / USA / English |
| AUNTIE ISSUES (Complejo de Algo) | Dirs: Tadeo Pestaña Caro, Rita Hostt / 14 min / 2023 / Argentina / Spanish |
| * BREAKING THROUGH (L'Échappée) | Dir: Siham Bel / 29 min / 2023 / France / Arabic, French |
| CATBOY | Dir: Cristian Sitjas / 14 min / 2023 / Spain / Spanish |
| COBALT (Cobalto) | Dir: Julián Hernández / 21 min / 2022 / Mexico / Spanish |
| COWBOY, CHOKER, HARNESS & HEART | Dirs: Julia Ponce Diaz, Nicolas Blanco / 8 min / 2023 / USA / English |
| DL GUY | Dir: Chad Zemel / 14 min / 2023 / USA / English |
| EMERALD CITY | Dir: Josef Steiff / 21 min / 2024 / USA / English |
| EVERYBODY'S GOTTA LOVE SOMETIMES | Dir: Sein Lyan Tun ou / 15 / 2023 / France, Myanmar, Indonesia / French, English, Burmese |
| EXES | Dir: Itay Segal / 20 / 2023 / Israel / Hebrew |
| F**KED | Dir: Sara Harrak / 6 min / 2023 / UK / English |
| * FISH BOY | Dir: Christopher Yip / 11 min / 2023 / Canada / English, Yue Chinese (Cantonese) |
| FORWARD DRIVE | Dir: Anomaa Rajakaruna / 21 min / 2021 / Sri Lanka / Sinhalese |
| FRIEND OF A FRIEND (Ami d’ami) | Dir: Simon Gualtieri / 15 min / 2023 / Canada / French |
| * GIVE | Dir: Kenya Gillespie / 16 min / 2023 / USA / English |
| INSTA GAY | Dir: Simon Paluck / 12 min / 2023 / Canada / English |
| INVITATION | Dir: Panha Theng / 10 min / 2023 / Cambodia / Central Khmer |
| LARRY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS | Dir: David Sonnenborn / 23 min / 2023 / USA / English |
| LIKE A MOONFLOWER | Dir: Upasana Dahal / 13 min / 2021 / Bhutan / Bhutanese |
| * LIKE WAVE LIKE CLOUD (浪花像是一朵云) | Dir: Yulin Yang / 16 min / 2023 / China / Chinese |
| LOVESICK (Mal de Amores) | Dir: Fiorella Vescovi Garcia / 15 min / 2022 / USA / English |
| MACHO MAN | Dir: Agustí Estadella / 24 min / 2023 / Spain / Catalan |
| * MAKING UP | Dir: Ryan Paige / 15 min / 2023 / UK / English |
| MAMI | Dir: Alecio Araci / 7 min / 2024 / Sweden / Romany / Swedish |
| * MANTING | Dir: Shuyao Chen / 15 min / 2023 / China / Chinese |
| * MASC4MASC | Dir: Felix Augustin Greisinger / 8 min / 2023 / Sweden / Swedish |
| MOUNTAIN LINGERS (산이지나가는자리) | Dir: Hyeryeong Song / 10 min / 2022 / Korea, Republic of / Korean |
| NIGHT AND DAY (밤낮없이) | Dir: Dong yun Kim / 25 min / 2023 / Korea, Republic of / Korean |
| * NOTHING SPECIAL | Dir: Mikko Makela / 14 min / 2023 / UK / English |
| * PIECHT | Dir: Luka Lara Steffen / 30 min / 2023 / Germany / German |
| PURE BREEDS (Razze Pure) | Dir: Giuseppe Zampella / 20 min / 2023 / Italy / English, Italian |
| REALNESS WITH A TWIST | Dir: Cass Virdee / 12 min / 2023 / UK / English |
| SAFETY STATE | Dir: Jeanette L. Buck / 16 min / 2024 / USA / English |
| * SANAI | Dir: Akanchha Karki / 15 min / 2023 / Nepal / Nepali |
| SAXYFRAGE | Dirs: David Luis Pérez, Ana Alejos / 12 min / 2023 / Spain, Belgium / English, French |
| SCARING WOMEN AT NIGHT | Dir: Karimah Zakia Issa / 11 min / 2023 / Canada / English |
| SEAGULLS CUT THROUGH THE SKY (As Gaivotas Cortam o Céu) | Dirs: Mariana Bártolo, Guillermo García López / 18 min / 2023 / Portugal, France / Portuguese |
| * SIFAR | Dir: Eishita NA / 21 min / 2024/ India / English, Hindi |
| * SKIN | Dir: Leo Behrens / 7 min / 2023/ USA / English |
| STAY | Dir: King Louie Palomo / 22 min / 2022 / Canada / English |
| STONE | Dirs: Jake Graf, Hannah Graf / 13 min / 2023 / UK / English |
| THAT'S FAMILY | Dir: Puppett / 13 min / 2022 / USA / English |
| * THE ELLIPSIS FIGURE | Dir: Saeed Heshmati / 15 min / 2024/ Iran, Islamic Republic of / Persian |
| THE LAST TAKE | Dir: Brian Foyster / 14 min / 2023 / USA / English |
| THE LEFT HAND (La Main Gauche) | Dir: Maxime Robin / 14 min / 2022 / Canada / Canada |
| THE LIME GREEN SHIRT | Dir: Kaushik Ray / 16 min / 2024 / UK / English, Bengali |
| * THE ODDITY IN THE BLUE CRAYFISH (Il difetto dell'astice blu) | Dir: Simone Marino / 16 min / 2023/ Italy / Italian |
| * THE WAKE | Dir: Peter Ahlén / 30 min / 2023/ Denmark / Danish |
| THERE’S NO SEX, ONLY FANS (推特事) | Dir: Chi-Wen Ting / 19 min / 2023 / Taiwan / Mandarin |
| TICKER | Dir: Thom Petty / 9 min / 2023 / UK / English |
| * TOMÀS | Dir: Ferran Navarro-Beltrán / 19 min / 2024/ Spain / Catalan, Spanish |
| UNTIL THE DAY I CALL HER MY SON | Dir: Ayumi Kurokawa / 26 min / 2024 / Japan / Japanese |
| WEGEN HEGEL | Dir: Popo Fan / 14 min / 2023 / Germany, Taiwan, China / German, English |
| INDIAN NARRATIVE SHORTS | |
| AALINGAN | Dir: Prashant Patil / 17 min / 2023 / India, USA / Hindi |
| * CHITTHI | Dir: Sarthak Chauhan / 10 min / 2023 / India / Pahari |
| CHUPI ROH | Dir: Disha Bhardwaj / 16 min / 2023 / India / Hindi, Pahari |
| FLOWERING MAN | Dir: Soumyajit Ghosh Dastidar / 23 min / 2023 / India / Hindi |
| HALFWAY | Dir: Kumar Chheda / 9 min / 2023 / India / English |
| * IF (যদি ) | Dir: Tathagata Ghosh / 26 min / 2024 / India / Bengali |
| * IYKYK (If You Know You Know) | Dir: Bonita Rajpurohit / 25 min / 2024 / India / Hindi |
| KITTY KELLY'S DIWALI (Kitty Kelly Ki Diwali) | Dir: Vivek Shah / 52 min / 2023 / India / English |
| * LOVE+ (Love Positive) | Dir: Tushar Tyagi / 17 min / 2023 / India / English, Hindi |
| LOVE AND LET LOVE | Dir: Shailaja Padindala / 8 min / 2024 / India / No Dialogues |
| MALWA KHUSHAN | Dirs: Preeti Kannungo, Sourav Yadav / 20 min / 2023 / India / Hindi |
| MEHROON | Dir: Abu Sohel Khondekar / 10 min / 2024 / India / No Dialogues |
| * NIGHT QUEEN | Dir: Naireeta Dasgupta / 29 min / 2023 / India / Hindi |
| THANKS MOM | Dir: Manik Sanjay Talwar / 22 min / 2023 / India / Hindi, English |
| THE MEETING | Dir: Shrish Bagwe / 21 min / 2024 / India / Marathi |
| THE SCORPION (Vinchu) | Dir: Sumedh Natu / 17 min / 2022 / India / Marathi |
| THEY/THEM | Dir: Phelian / 18 min / 2023 / India / English, Hindi |
| ANIMATION SHORTS | |
| IT'S A GRAY, GRAY WORLD | Dir: Seyed Mohsen Shakib / 6 min / 2022 / Iran, Islamic Republic of / No Dialogues |
| UNEX·TEXT·ED ENCOUNTERS | Dir: Ria Mirchandani / 12 min / 2023 / USA / English |
| EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS | |
| INNER WOUND REAL | Dir: Carrie Hawks / 15 min / 2022 / USA / English |
| SLEEPING DRAGON | Dir: Rob Falconer / 12 min / 2023 / UK / English |
| YOU CAN'T GET WHAT YOU WANT BUT YOU CAN GET ME | Dirs: Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh / 13 min / 2023 / Netherlands, Finland, Germany, USA / English |