Queer Film Festival to showcase the seven shades of love in Mumbai

The five-day long seventh edition of ‘Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival’ begins on May 25. ‘Seven Shades Of Love’ is the theme this year. Sir Ian McKellen along with director-producer Kiran Rao and actress Celina Jaitly will be present for the festival’s opening ceremony.

Close to 182 films from 53 countries will be screened as a part of the festival of which, 41 will compete for the awards. Todd Haynes’ Oscar-nominated movie, ‘Carol’, starring

Kate Blanchett

and Rooney Mara will open the festival while it will conclude with Those People by Joey Kuhn.


Along with panel discussions, the next few days days will have short film packages, documentaries and feature films like Hansal Mehta’s ‘

Aligarh

’, ‘Daddy’ by Gerald McCullouch, ‘Koti’ by Suhas Bhosale, ‘Shared Rooms’ by

Rob Williams

, ‘I Love You. Thank You’, ‘While You Weren’t Looking’ among others.

Started in the year 2010, it is South Asia’s biggest and India’s only queer film festival. The event will be held at three venues — Liberty Cinema, Alliance Française de Bombay and Max Mueller Bhavan.