The jury (from left) Vinta Nanda, Anjum Rajabali, Lubna Salim and Jabeen Merchant,  at the Press Club on Wednesday. Pics/Suresh karkera

The Kashish Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer (LGBTQ) film festival, beginning in the city from May 24 till May 28 at two venues, the Alliance de Francaise and Liberty cinema, is on the runway. Take off is still a week away, but like film festival director, Sridhar Rangayan said at the press conference at Press Club at Azad Maidan on Wednesday evening, "Our tagline for the eighth edition is: 'Let's rock the city'. That is exactly what we aim to do." The festival will showcase 147 queer-centric films from 45 countries, with the jury panel judging 51 films that are competing in different categories.