Same-Sex Marriage Rights a hot topic at KASHISH 2021

KASHISH 2021 panels discuss histories, religion & marriage equality for LGBTQIA+ community The 12th edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, South Asia’s biggest LGBTQIA+ film festival, is underway from August 19th to September 5th 2021 screening 221 films from 53 countries over 3 weekends. During the weekdays the festival is programming several interesting panel discussions and filmmaker Q&As. On...

Iranian feature “The Another Self” gets two nominations at Wales Film Festival

Passionate filmmaker Amir Tavakoli tackles a social topic in Iran The challenges faced by transgender communities across the world are similar, but can get extreme in conservative patriarchal societies like Iran and India. A film that has been doing the festival rounds and bravely brings out the nuances of this bold subject in Iran is a feature called The Another Self,...

KASHISH 2021 rescheduled to August due to the pandemic

The 12th edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, South Asia’s biggest LGBTQIA+ film festival which was to be held online in May has been rescheduled from August 19th to September 5th 2021 owing to the current situation of the pandemic in the country and across the world. In a statement released recently the organizers of the film festival said “considering the...

KASHISH 2021: Latin American films win big at a grand online award ceremony

The awards for the 12th edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, South Asia's biggest LGBTQI film festival, were announced at a glittering online Closing and Awards Ceremony on September 5 which also featured performances by LGBTQ+ community members and allies like popstar Shalmali & dancer, choreographer Sandip Soparrkar. The Chilean film Forgotten Roads (by Nicol Ruiz) won the Best Narrative Feature film,...