May 25th Liberty Cinema
9.30pm
CAROL (Opening Film)
Dir: Todd Haynes
2015 | 118 min | UK, USA| English | Narrative Feature
Carol follows two women from strikingly different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. Starring Kate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, this film was nominated for six categories at the Oscars.
May 26th Liberty Cinema
9.30am
Changing Reflections (Short Film Package)
Two films about acceptance and dignity for transgender community in our society.
10.45am
Transindia (short documentary)
Anjali: How Long Can Someone Live In Other's Skin (short documentary)
Two short documentaries about transgender community in India and Nepal
12.30pm
Between Hellos& Goodbyes (Short Film Package)
Seven short films from different countries explores the complicated terrain of happiness, anxiety, laughter and tears
2.30pm
Weird Is Who's Not Weird (short film)
DADDY (feature film)
Director: Gerald McCullouch
2015 | 89 min | USA |English | Narrative Feature
A story about friendship, family, getting older, and the high cost of things left unsaid.
4.30pm
Panel Discussion: ‘Way Ahead with Sec 377’
This panel discussion at KASHISH 2016 attempts to bring together political activists, advocates, corporate thought leaders and community voices to unpack the challenges and chart out a road map for the future vis-Ã -vis Sec 377 and LGBT community in India.
6.00pm
KOTI (feature film)
Director: Suhas Bhosale
2015 | 126 min | India | Marathi | Narrative Feature
A family is caught in a dilemma between social burden and love. The elder son, Sham’s behaviour is feminine. The father, unable to face this social burden of ridicule, decides to send him away. But Babhrya, the younger son loves his brother and hence takes a stand to resist his father and the society.
8.15pm
It’s Complicated (short film package)
Three short films that stress the fact that sexual identities and sexual orientations are not mere labels, but an intrinsic part of who we all are.
HETEROSEXUAL JILL (feature film)
Director: Michelle Ehlen
2013 | 80 min | USA | English | Narrative Feature
A mix of over-the-top comedy, sharp wit, and pathos, "Heterosexual Jill" rides the edge of laughter and pain, desire and repression, and explores a complicated love affair between two women.
10.30pm
Bed Buddies (short film)
SHARED ROOMS (feature film)
Director: Rob Williams
2016 | 75 min | USA | Narrative Feature
‘Shared Rooms’ explores the meaning of home and family through three interrelated stories of gay men finding connections during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day – a married couple who take in a teenage relative who was kicked out of his home after his parents discovered he was gay; a pair of roommates forced to share a bed for the week, much to the delight (and horror) of the one harbouring a secret crush on the other; and two men looking for a quick hook-up who end up finding a much stronger connection.
May 26th Alliance Francaise de Bombay
1.15pm
Benjamin (short film)
WELCOME HOME (documentary feature)
Dir: Pablo Rogero
2015 | 62.37 min | English, Spanish with EST | Spain, USA | Documentary Feature
A gay couple in Barcelona decide to have a child and travel to Los Angeles to meet the woman who has agreed to be the surrogate mother. Throughout this peculiar process of pregnancy, Mario and Sergio prepare and share expectations with their family and friends of their experience of becoming what they've always wanted to be: parents.
2.45pm
Best of Iris (short film package)
Best of Iris package of short films comprise of the winners and highly commended films at Iris Prize 2015 film festival. Iris Prize film festival is one of the leading LGBTQ short film festivals in the world and offers a GBP25,000 award to the Best LGBTQ short film, for the filmmakers to make his/her next film. KASHISH is a partner festival of Iris Prize and the winner of the Best Indian Narrative Short film gets to be nominated to compete for this highest award.
4.30pm
Bread of Life (short film)
AN ACT OF LOVE (documentary feature)
Director: Scott Sheppard
2015 | 86 min | English | USA | Documentary Feature
In 2013, Rev. Frank Schaefer was put on trial in the United Methodist Church for officiating his son’s same-sex wedding. The Schaefer family was pulled into a movement for LGBTQ equality in America's second largest protestant denomination. An Act of Love follows Rev. Schaefer’s journey from a small-town minister to an outspoken advocate.
6.15pm
I LOVE YOU. THANK YOU (feature film)
Dir: Charliebebs Gohetia
2015 | 110 min | Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand | Narrative Feature
Paul is a restless twenty-something who cannot get his life together. Worse, he’s been holding on to his love towards Red, his best friend’s boyfriend. Looking for a sense of direction, he goes to Siem Reap and meets Tang, who falls in love with him. But when Ivan leaves Red without any explanation, Paul finds himself caught between chasing his unrequited love for Red or choose Tang, the one who is always willing to give him love that he cannot return.
May 27th Alliance Francaise de Bombay
10.00am
Bathroom Break (short film)
Transition Day (short film)
COMING IN (documentary feature)
Director: Marlies Demeulandre
2015 | 55 min | France | Documentary Feature
Nine people, gays and lesbians working at three companies have agreed to share the stories of their lives at work, stories that until now had rarely been heard and often been kept silent. Aged 20 to 80, from high level executives to office workers, they form a panel of great social, cultural and psychological diversity. From the seventies, our witnesses have developed amazing strategies in order to conform. In a humane and positive way, this documentary deals with being different and feeling judged.
11.15am
Celebrar Brasil (short film package)
5 extraordinary short films from this year’s Country in Focus: Brazil, brings together the diverse living experiences of Brazilian LGBTQ community in all its splendid glory.
1.00pm
Stories From The Edge (short film package)
5 short films that are intriguing and illuminating about the dilemmas of love… of losing and find love.
3.00pm
Family Matters! (short film package)
Families are there for you – through thick and thin, ups and downs – but sometimes the journey is not so smooth, when riddled with secrets and shenanigans. Seven films that will touch your heart and reaffirm that Family is what Matters!
4.45pm
Falling Angels (short film)
Julia - the priest's daughter - falls in love with the beautiful Barbara, who just moved to the island. A story about forbidden love and the impossible choices it leads to.
Sangini (short documentary)
Dedicated to (late) Betu Singh, one of the earliest lesbian activist, the documentary tells the stories of people who fled their families and sought sanctuary at Sangini, a shelter for lesbian, bi and trans-identified people in Delhi. Fleeing family imposed restrictions, violence and pressures to get married – a young woman, a trans-man, and a lesbian couple recount their stories of flight and resilience, their struggle to assert their civil rights and independence, and their hopes for the future.
6.00pm
WHILE YOU WEREN’T LOOKING (feature film)
Director: Catherine Stewart
2015 | 104 min | South Africa | Narrative Feature
While You Weren’t Looking is an original story, set in Cape Town. The protagonists are queer people, from all walks of life, whose intertwining tales present a humorous, inventive and dramatic take on contemporary life in South Africa. It is through the eyes and experiences of a cross-section of queers - black, white and coloured, cruisy singles, married couples with children, city and township dwellers, apartheid survivors and born frees, professionals and skollies - that we see the South African contemporary landscape unfold
AN ACT OF LOVE
Anjali
Carol
Heterosexual Jill
Koti still
Shared rooms
Tranindia
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