SCHDULE - 2026
Colors of Love – Queer Film Festival 2026
3 Days of Queer Cinema • 13th–15th February 2026
Venue: Veda Black Box - 120, Aram Nagar - 2, Versova, Andheri West, Mumbai
🌈 Festival Schedule • Beautiful Vertical Layout
Day - 1
Date: 13th Feb.
Time: 5:00PM - 10:00 PM
🎬 Opening Day
Program - 1
Opening Ceremony + Film Screening (Opening Shorts)
5:00PM - 7:50PM
🎤 Opening Ceremony: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
👋 Guest Welcome
🎞️ Film Screening: Opening Shorts
| Film | Directors | Country | Language | Premiere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracks | Riccardo Ragazzo | United Kingdom | English | World Premiere |
| Boys of a Feather | Shelby Lewis | United States, United States | English | Asian Premiere |
| Yasak Aşk – Forbidden Love | Yavuz Kurtulmus | Turkey | Turkish | South Asian Premiere |
| The Gaymaker | Elliot Delage | France | French | Asian Premiere |
| Dani&Billy | Egoitz Carpenter | Spain | Spanish | Indian Premiere |
| The New Gardener | Ryan Parma | United States | English | Asian Premiere |
| Forbidden soul | Baidar Bakhat | Pakistan | Urdu | Mumbai Premiere |
| The Last Take | Brian Foyster | United States, United States | English | South Asia Premiere |
| Jason's Unite | John Lincoln III | United States | English | Asian Premiere |
💬 QnA with Cast and Crew of the films
☕ Break
Program - 2
Film Screening (Opening Film)
8:00PM - 10:00PM
| Film | Directors | Country | Language | Premiere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newborn | Alejandro Zuno | Mexico | Spanish | South Asian Premiere |
💬 QnA with Cast and Crew of the films
☕ Break
Day - 2
Date: 14th Feb.
Time: 2:30PM - 10:00 PM
💜 Day of Shorts + Panel
Program - 3
Film Screening (Screening Shorts)
2:30PM - 4:10PM
| Film | Directors | Country | Language | Premiere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| See me | Anton Svantesson-Helkiö | Finland | Finnish, Swedish | |
| Homecoming | Grae Meek | New Zealand | English | Asian Premiere |
| The drug of being loved | Àlex Arroyo | Spain | English | Asian Premiere |
| Kilometer 9 or since when do you stop to look at the city | Mika Nivola | Colombia | Spanish | |
| The Chirp of Men | Andrés Daniel G. | Germany | English | |
| Gregorio | Juan Pablo de Luna | Mexico | Spanish | Asian Premiere |
| Queer Up the Details | Anna Rose Ii-Epstein | United States | English | |
| F***ING WAR | Ohad Manor | Israel | Hebrew | |
| Differently water | daniele Catini | Italy | Italian |
💬 QnA with Cast and Crew of the films
☕ Break
Program - 4
Film Screening (Screening Shorts)
4:20PM - 6:10PM
| Film | Directors | Country | Language | Premiere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afterwords | Karen McKeen | United States | English | |
| Dragged | Claire Cunningham | United States | English | |
| The Remains of Love | Fabrizio Funari | Italy | Italian | |
| The Last Story on Earth | Aaron Immediato | United States | English | Indian Premiere |
| I DO NOT FORGET | Antonello Murgia | Italy | Italian | |
| Why We Pride | United Kingdom | English | ||
| I Love You Beary Much | Collin Viator | United States | English | |
| A New Creation Story | Dane Figueroa Edidi, J Mase III, Audria LB | United States | English | Asian Premiere |
| Where’s Urmila | Rayyan ‘Monkey’ Shaikh | India | English |
💬 QnA with Cast and Crew of the films
☕ Break
Program - 5
Panel
6:15PM - 6:45PM
🗣️ “Queer Stories They Warned Us About - Meet the New Filmmakers”
👥 Panelists: Rayyan ‘Monkey’ Shaikh, Debjani Bhadra, Kartika Nainan Dubey
☕ Break
Program - 6
Film Screening (Screening Shorts)
7:00PM - 8:15PM
| Film | Directors | Country | Language | Premiere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| who cares? | Cat Mahatta | United States | English | Asian Premiere |
| At Home | Aubrey Pandori | United States | English | South Asian Premiere |
| Ramen for two | Sergi Barrasa, Leni Losantos, Judith Tarrés | Spain | No Dialogue | |
| Snippets | Robin August Grebenisan, Yara ter Veer | Netherlands | English | Asian Premiere |
| Waste Time: A Complicated Love Story | LIVt | United States | English | Asian Premiere |
| Singh & Sinha | Mohan Das | India | English |
💬 QnA with Cast and Crew of the films
☕ Break
Program - 7
Film Screening (Special Feature Film)
8:20PM - 10:00PM
| Film | Directors | Country | Language | Premiere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FINE YOUNG MEN | Alejandro Andrade Pease | Mexico | Spanish | South Asia Premiere |
💬 QnA with Cast and Crew of the films
☕ Break
Day - 3
Date: 15th Feb.
Time: 2:30PM - 10:00 PM
🏆 Closing Day
Program - 8
Film Screening (Screening Shorts)
2:30PM - 4:15PM
| Film | Directors | Country | Language | Premiere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Bay | Jose Cortes Amunarriz | Spain | Spanish | Indian Premiere |
| Foreigner | Edigar Martins | Brazil | Portuguese | |
| Your Cookie | Ryan Harman | United States | English | |
| Outlasting – Living Archives of Older Queers | Ana Cristina Santos, Nuno Barbosa | Portugal | English, Greek (Modern), Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian | Asian Premiere |
| ASHA | Moitri Ghosh | Not Specified | Bengali, English | Indian Premiere |
| BY DESIGN | Moitri Ghosh | United States | Bengali, English | Indian Premiere |
| The Story of Yuvraj and Shahajahan | Santosh Ram | India | Marathi | |
| No Bad Blood | Emily McEvoy | United States | English | |
| Crystalline | Christopher Cunetto | United States, United States | South Asian Premiere |
💬 QnA with Cast and Crew of the films
☕ Break
Program - 9
Film Screening (Screening Shorts)
4:30PM - 5:30PM
| Film | Directors | Country | Language | Premiere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Teachers Day | Ravendra Kewlani | India | Hindi | |
| Tutti Frutti Cake | Rohit Prajapati | India | Hindi | |
💬 QnA with Cast and Crew of the films
☕ Break
Program - 10
Closing Ceremony (Award) + Film Screening (Closing Shorts)
6:00PM - 8:00PM
| Film | Directors | Country | Language | Premiere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Shawl | Kamila Boichenko | Poland | Polish, Ukrainian | Asian Premiere |
| Le Cascate del Salto | Flavio Stano | Italy | Italian | |
| Nice to meet you | Noah Kara | Sweden | Swedish | |
| Blue Berri | Verónica Saenz, Raquel Durán | Spain | Spanish | |
| The light that inhabits your mind | Marcus Mads Nielsen | Spain | Spanish |
💬 QnA with Cast and Crew of the films
☕ Break
Program - 11
Film Screening (Closing Film)
8:00PM - 10:00PM
| Film | Directors | Country | Language | Premiere |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Skeleton in the Closet | Nicolás Teté | Argentina | Spanish |
