Selection of Queer Indian Short Films specially curated around the theme of "Acceptance"
Mudh Mudh Ke Na Dekh ( Don't Look Back)
Dir: Mujeer Pasha, Veena Kulkarni
25 min | English, Hindi with English subtitles
Months after divorce, Kumar shows up with bags at his ex-wife's door. She lives with her girlfriend who happens to be Kumar's best friend. A classic triangle with a queer twist.
The Last Letter
Dir: Vishal Jejurkar
15 min | Hindi with English subtitles
Mohan living with a secret all his life rife with inner conflict, starts to see things differently, after revisiting the reality from which he escaped years ago.
Mahalachumi
Dir: Naresh Gunaseelan
12 min | Tamil with English subtitles
Raja, with a daughter and a son, is an easily paranoid father of middle class family, on his morning jog with friends hears their fun conversation about same sex marriages and relationship. Conversation developed on sharing facts about LGBT and this grips fear on the father as he now doubts on his daughter’s sexual orientation. On his return home finds his daughter with her girl friend and gets shaken in distress. Being caught by her father, the daughter now has to explain and convince her dad about her love life.
U Ushacha (U for Usha)
Dir: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade (in attendance)
22 min | Marathi with English subtitles
Winner Satyajit Ray Award at London Indian Film Festival
Winner Jury Award at Hong Kong LGBT Festival
Nominee IRIS Prize, Cardiff
Usha, a single mother who works as a farm labourer in rural India, finds herself drawn to a female school teacher of a local primary school, in ways she never knew possible. This attraction plays an important part in firing her passion to read and write as she hopes to be as good as the teacher one day.
The screening will be followed by Q+A with the director of this film Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
All proceeds from the screening go directly to the film makers to encourage their creativity and reward their tenaciousness as they navigate difficult situations to bring these stories to life.