’Beats per minute’ will be the opening film at kashish 2018

he French film Beats Per Minute and Indian film Evening Shadows – both award winners – will be the Opening and Closing films respectively at the 9th edition of Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival,South Asia’s biggest LGBTQ film festival – to be held between May 23-27, 2018 at Liberty Carnival Cinemas and Metro Inox. 140 films from 45 countries will be screened , including 33 Indian LGBTQ films. Beats Per Minute highlights coming together of individuals to fight a common cause, the AIDS epidemic; Evening Shadows highlights how it is important for family members to come together to support their children,“says festival director Sridhar Rangayan. Written and directed by Robin Campillo, Beats Per Minute is a dramatisation of the early years of the militant AIDS activist group Act Up-Paris. The screening in Mumbai is truly special for the team, as it is for home audiences and gives out a message about acceptance of children by their families”, says Saagar Gupta, creative director, writer and producer. The title song ‘Surmaee Shaam’, has been composed and sung by Shubha Mudgal. “Evening Shadows is about an orthodox couple facing the truth of their only son is a fitting tribute from a fabulous fest.