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Kashish 2924 Crowdfunding
KASHISH 2024 Crowdfunding The 15th edition of KASHISH Pride Film Festival, South Asia's biggest LGBTQ+ film festival, will be held May 15-19, 2024 at Liberty Cinema (Marine Lines), May 16-19, 2024 at Alliance Française de Bombay (Marine Lines); and May 17-18, 2024 at...
Register to Attend Kashish 2024
Register to Attend KASHISH 2024 Full-Festival Passes; Discounted Passes for Students, Senior Citizens, Transgender persons and Alliance Francaise members; and also Day Passes available. Book on Paytm...
KASHISH Pride Film Festival unveils its new logo and festival look!
KASHISH Pride Film Festival unveils its new logo and festival look!Mumbai based duo designed the logo, whereas Bangalore based designer’s poster was finalized The erstwhile KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, the city’s annual LGBTQ+ film festival, now...
Call for Volunteers for Kashish 2024
Call for Volunteers for Kashish 2024 Excitement is building up for the 15th edition of KASHISH Pride Film Festival (earlier known as KASHISH Mumbai Internatioial Queer Film Festival) to be held May 15 - May 19th at 3 venues. And we want you to be at the center of this...
𝐊𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐐𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐢 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒
𝐊𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐐𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐢 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐊𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐐𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐢 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 Calling all Indian LGBTQ+ Filmmakers to register for the KASHISH QDrishti Film Grant 2024 to submit their LGBTQ+ focussed short film scripts for a Rs.3,00,000 grant (Rs.2.5L to...
𝐊𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭
𝐊𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 Calling all designers & artists - professionals, students - across the world to submit designs for the KASHISH 2024 Poster Design Contest with the festival theme 'Unfurl Your Pride'. Create a design that will become the face of...
KASHISH Forward at Sophia College
KASHISH Forward at Sophia CollegeThe KASHISH Forward at Sophia College (Autonomous), Mumbai, being held as part of Mumbai Queer Pride, on January 18, 2024 1.00-4.00pm is a film screening of 7 LGBTQ+ films from USA, Ireland, Canada and India to spread awareness and...
KASHISH Chalchitra Utsav 2024
KASHISH Chalchitra Utsav 2024The KASHISH Chalchitra Utsav 2024, a proud member of the Mumbai Festival 2024, is being held on January 27th and January 28th from 11am to 10pm on both days. The 2 day festival will screen Indian language LGBTQ+ films in Hindi, Marathi,...
Submissions open for KASHISH 2024
The 15th edition of KASHISH Pride Film Festival will be held as an in-person festival from June 5 to June 9 2024, followed by an online festival (dates to be announced).
We invite invite Film Submissions of LGBTQIA+ Narrative & Documentary Features and Short Films through FilmFreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/KASHISH2024
KASHISH Pride Film Festival
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.
REACHING OUT WITH THE POWER OF CINEMA
LGBTQIA+ Films every year
Participants every year
Years Of Fame
What People Say
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.
