Actors from the film Evening Shadows, Arpit Chaudhary, Devansh Doshi and Mona Ambegaonkar, at the Kashish press conference yesterday. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi

The ninth edition of Mumbai's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer (LGBTQ) festival, Kashish, was announced at a conference at the Press Club in Azad Maidan on Wednesday afternoon. The annual fest will open on May 23 and end on May 27 at SoBo's Liberty theatre, which has been rechristened Carnival-Liberty. The festival also has a new, mainstream space, SoBo's Metro-Inox cinema, which will host films concurrently.