It is sweet 16 for Mumbai’s annual Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer+ (LGBTQ+) film festival — the Kashish Pride Film Festival. The festival’s highlights were announced, and advisory board and jury members spoke at a press conference on Wednesday late afternoon at the Mumbai Press Club.

Kashish will be held in the first few days of Pride month, from June 4 to June 8, 2025. The festival kicks off at St Andrews Auditorium in Bandra (West) on June 4 and will then play at Cinepolis, Andheri (West), and Alliance Francaise, Marine Lines, between June 5 and 8. The curtain raiser is in Bandra, rather than Liberty cinema, Marine Lines in South Mumbai which was always the classy opening act of the fest.

Viveck Vaswani, Arunaraje Patil and Onir at the press conference. Pics/Nimesh Dave