JOYLAND

We open this year's edition of the festival with this exciting Pakistani Oscar entry

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Type:

Feature

Where:

Ketelhuis 2 & 3

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Director:

Saim Sadiq

Running Time:

126 min

Country:

Pakistan

Year:

2022

Language:

Punjabi and Urdu

Subtitles:

Dutch

Tags:

Queer

Joyland is the oldest entertainment park of Lahore, the capital of Punjab province in Pakistan. It's a place for people like Haider and his pregnant wife Mumtaz go to forget about their sorrows for a while. She is suffering under the pressures that the patriarchal society brings - she has to produce a male heir - and he is hiding a secret. Haider secretly works as background dancer for Biba, a trans woman who performs in an exotic dance club.

When he falls for her, a culture clash will be unleashed that will obliterate his conservative surroundings.

The deserved winner of the Queer Palm at Cannes filmfestival.

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