Kashish Pride Film Festival 2025 is back with its 16th edition. The dates for the festival are June 4th to June 8th 2025. The theme for #KASHISH2025 is Love = Peace, underlining the transformative power of Love to usher in Peace. What we need now more than ever is Peace – peace among warring nations, among divided communities, and within individuals, whether mental or emotional. And all this can be brought through Love-love for oneself, for each other, love within families and societies, and love that embraces every identity.
Please find below top ten films to watch along with the film’s poster.
1. QUEER – Opening Feature
Director: Luca Guadagnino
137 min / 2024 / Italy, USA / English, Spanish, French
William Lee (Daniel Craig), an American expat and heroin addict in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community he lives in. His encounter with Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), an expat former soldier, makes him believe it might finally be possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.
Thu Jun 5, 7.45 PM / Cinepolis Andheri West Screen 3
2. CLOSE TO YOU – Closing Film
Director: Dominic Savage
100 min / 2023 / Canada, UK / English
Sam (Elliot Page) hasn’t been home since his transition, and after four years in Toronto, he takes a long-dreaded trip back to Cobourg for his father’s birthday. On the train there, he runs into Katherine (Hillary Baack), a friend from high school with her own complicated life now, and feelings from their unresolved past begin to bubble to the surface. Close to You is an emotionally observant drama about coming home as yourself, only for everyone to treat you like a completely different person. It’s a powerful new film from star and producer Page, capturing an all-too-familiar experience, as Sam exercises patience with his family’s baseline acceptance and well-intentioned clumsiness.
Sun Jun 8 10.15 PM / Cinepolis Andheri West Screen 3 & 4
3. WE ARE FAHEEM & KARUN – Indian Narrative Centrepiece
Director: Onir
75 min / 2025 / India / Urdu, Hindi, Kashmiri, English, Malayalam
A young security man, Karun from south of India, is posted in Gurez, a remote village in Kashmir, North of India. One day a young Kashmiri man, Faheem, with a disarming smile appears at the check post. This is the beginning of a romance between Karun and Faheem. A romance that is doomed right from the beginning. One man who cannot be open about his identity because of homosexuality being considered a taboo in the context of religion and the man he loves cannot be open about his identity in his profession. Shot in the border area of India and Pakistan this is the first Kashmiri language LGBTQI+ themed film. A doomed romance, the film explores themes of love, family, friendship, religion, duty and the impact of geopolitical conflicts on personal lives.
Sat Jun 7, 8.00 PM / Cinepolis Andheri West Screen 3
4. SALLY!
Director: Deborah Alice Craig
90 min | 2024 | USA | English
Sally Gearhart was a lesbian-feminist firebrand, professor, and fantasy author who helped transform the world for gay people — but too few folks know of this “hidden figure.” Our film celebrates Sally’s dynamism and complexity, as well as the collective (if chaotic) nature of revolutionary movements and their icons.
Fri Jun 6, 5.45 PM / Cinepolis Andheri West Screen 3
Sat Jun 7, 3.45 PM / Alliance Francaise, Marine Lines
5. SEBASTIAN
Dir: Mikko Mäkelä
111 min / 2024 / UK, Finland, Belgium / English, French
In this queer drama, we follow Max, a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Seb…
Sun Jun 8, 2.30 PM | Cinepolis Andheri West Screen 4
6. THREE KILOMETERS TO THE END OF THE WORLD – International Narrative Centrepiece
Director: Emanuel Parvu
105 min / 2024 / Romania / Romanian
Adi (17) is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquility of the village starts to crack.
Sat Jun 7, 12.45 PM / Cinepolis Andheri West Screen 3
7. ODD FISH
Director: Snævar Sölvason
104 min | 2024 | Iceland | Icelandic, English
When two childhood friends get an unexpected opportunity to keep their fish restaurant open all year round, one of them comes out of the closet as a trans woman, putting a strain on their friendship and they see their lives in a new light.
Sat Jun 7, 12.30 PM / Cinepolis Andheri West Screen 4
8. RESET
Director: Patricia Ryczko
95 min | 2024 | Poland | Polish
A dystopian-future immigration thriller directed by Patricia Ryczko. Synopsis: Set in the near future, Sonja, 41, is a dedicated housewife raising her 10-year-old daughter, Mia. She has kept her civil partnership with Adela, 27, hidden from everyone out of fear. One day, Sonja’s Citizen Pass suddenly stops working, stripping away all her freedoms. Unbeknownst to her, this glitch will unveil her past, a past she desperately concealed from the state to avoid persecution as a terrorist.
Fri Jun 6, 10.15 PM / Cinepolis Andheri West Screen 4
9. FATHERHOOD (Tre Fedre)
Directors: Even G. Benestad, August B. Hanssen
75 min | 2024 | Norway | Norwegian
Three men are expecting their first child. Kristopher, David, and Sindre are all in their early thirties and live together in a multi-partner relationship. Kristopher is the birth father, as one of the first trans men in Norway. They are about to face the everyday challenges in the extraordinary experience of establishing a family. Are they ready for what awaits them?
Sun Jun 8, 4.45 PM / Cinepolis Andheri West Screen 4
Fri Jun 6, 10.30 AM / Alliance Francaise, Marine Lines
10. BABY
Director: Marcelo Caetano
107 min | 2024 | Netherlands | Portuguese
São Paulo’s streets can offer danger or opportunity, and for Baby, they deliver both. After being released from a juvenile detention center, 18-year-old Wellington (Baby) finds himself alone and adrift on the streets of São Paulo, without any contact from his parents and lacking the resources to rebuild his life. He encounters Ronaldo, a mature man, who teaches him new ways of surviving. Gradually, their relationship turns into a conflicting passion.
Sat Jun 7, 10.15 PM / Cinepolis Andheri West Screen 3
