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EXCLUSIVE: The Olivia Colman-John Lithgow starring Jimpa and Goya Award-winning Maspalomas are group to header Kashish Pride Film Festival, South Asia’s largest LGBTQ+ movie show that’s astir to get underway successful Mumbai, India.
In Jimpa, nan play directed by Sophie Hyde, Lithgow plays nan titular character, a cheery elder surviving successful Amsterdam who is visited by his girl Hannah (Olivia Colman) and nonbinary granddaughter Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde). “Jimpa celebrates LGBTQ+ civilization crossed 3 generations,” notes a synopsis: “Grandfather Jim faces nan challenges of aging arsenic a cheery man successful a procreation that ne'er expected to turn old; teen Frances grapples pinch nan disappointment of their heroes falling short of their ideals; and mother Hannah navigates nan differing perspectives of her begetter and of her child. Surrounding these 3 is simply a vibrant family–the family they were calved into and nan family they proceed to create.”
Jimpa opens Kashish connected Wednesday; nan show closes connected Sunday (June 7) pinch Maspalomas, directed by Aitor Arregi and Jose Mari Goenaga. The play astir a cheery elder who goes backmost into nan closet aft moving into a nursing location earned 9 Goya Award nominations – Spain’s balanced of nan Oscars – including Best Director. José Ramón Soroiz won Best Actor for his domiciled arsenic protagonist Vicente. Maspalomas won Best Narrative Feature astatine nan caller Sonoma International Film Festival successful Northern California.
Kashish, featuring films, talks, creation and performances astatine 3 venues successful Mumbai, will surface 153 films from 43 countries. The show presents awards successful 13 categories, on pinch rate prizes for winners.
“Over nan past 17 years of KASHISH, each twelvemonth nan barroom is raised higher, and nan stakes are getting bigger,” said Sridhar Rangayan, laminitis and head of nan festival. “With astir 600 submissions this year, it was an highly difficult task to curate our last programming line-up, and to prime nan nominees successful nan title categories was nan toughest occupation – we had to prime nan champion from nan best!”
Kashish announced a prestigious array of jurors to judge nan title categories, including Oscar nominated filmmaker Shaunak Sen (All That Breathes), who will service connected nan documentary jury.
“I americium honored and excited to beryllium connected nan KASHISH movie show jury,” Sen said successful a statement. “I person loved galore of nan films that person played astatine nan show successful caller years, and profoundly respect nan sheer world breadth of films that are programmed this year.”
Noted Bollywood head Nikkhil Advani (Kal Ho Na Ho, Salaam-e-Ishq, Freedom astatine Midnight) is portion of nan KASHISH QDrishti Film Grant Jury. Advani commented, “Thrilled to beryllium included arsenic portion of nan assemblage of nan 17th KASHISH Pride Film Festival. Walking successful nan footsteps of past jurors for illustration Kiran Rao, Hansal Mehta, Gauri Shinde, Neeraj Ghaywan to sanction a few, filmmakers I respect truthful overmuch and who person group specified precocious standards successful their expertise to show unthinkable stories, is simply a existent privilege. I really look guardant to hearing, reference and moving pinch a organization of storytellers, each committed to break existing barriers and show important stories.”
Sundance winning filmmaker Shonali Bose (Amu, Margarita pinch a Straw, The Sky Is Pink) and National Award-winning character Parvathy Thiruvothu (Take Off, Ullozhukku, Qarib Qarib Single) are portion of nan Narrative Jury. Bose said, “It’s genuinely an grant to beryllium portion of nan KASHISH jury. I person been associated pinch and loved KASHISH since its inception successful 2010, and watched pinch pridefulness arsenic it has played an important domiciled successful creating visibility, community, and cinematic abstraction for LGBTQIA+ stories successful India and beyond. I’m excited to observe films that are bold, emotionally truthful, formally inventive, and profoundly quality — stories that not only bespeak queer lives, but grow nan measurement we spot and understand 1 another.”
Juror Parvathy Thiruvothu said, “I person been an state and protagonist of LGBTQ+ communities for arsenic agelong arsenic I person understood what it intends to genuinely listen. My belief is simple: queer lives are not subtexts, sidebars aliases symbols. They are full, tender, complicated, joyful lives that merit to beryllium seen connected surface pinch nan aforesaid dignity, scrutiny and emotion we connection immoderate story.”
Other acclaimed personalities connected nan assemblage are actresses Rajshri Deshpande & Maanvi Gagroo, filmmakers Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari and Shazia Iqbal, screenwriter Ishita Moitra, shaper Monisha Tyagarjan, academician Rahul Puri, and DEI master Akshay Tyagi.
The LGBTQ+ organization is represented crossed respective show juries by Neeraj Churi, Jaydeep Sarkar, Ashish Sawhny, and Roy Wadia (a location communications main astatine WHO/Europe, erstwhile executive shaper astatine CNN International, and a personnel of nan legendary Wadia Movietone family).
