‘Kashish 2012’ Queer Film Fest in Mumbai From May 23-27

India’s biggest international queer film festival, ‘Kashish 2012’ will be held in Mumbai from May 23-27, 2012. Kashish will be held at two venues in Mumbai, a mainstream multiplex theatre and at Alliance Francaise de Bombay.

Kashish has sent out an open call to artists from across the world to design its official poster and has roped in designer Wendell Rodricks to select the best. The festival is organized by Solaris Pictures and Bombay Dost in association with The Humsafar Trust.

The winner of the poster contest will receive an award on the closing night of the festival and it will include a Kashish trophy and a gift hamper.

The films from all over the world to be screened at the festival highlights the fact by showing LGBT persons as human beings with the same range of human emotions as any other person.

While the landmark first edition was held at PVR Cinemas, Juhu, from April 22-25, 2010 and screened 110 films from 25 countries, the second edition was held at Cinemax, Versova between May 25-29, 2011 and proved to bigger, bolder and queerer. Both the years, the festival was held simultaneously in South Mumbai at Alliance Francaise de Bombay.