In the heart of the metropolitan yet conservative city of Lahore lives The Ranas- A happily patriarchal joint family- yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for an ambitious trans starlet. Their impossible love story slowly illuminates the entire Rana family’s desire for sexual rebellion.
Winner of the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.
Joyland
2022
14 years
126 min.
Fiction
Pakistan
day by day, existential crisis, family drama, international festivals, family, LGBTQIA+, Pakistan, love relationship
Colorido
Saim Sadiq
Saim Sadiq
Joe Saade
Jasmin Tenucci, Saim Sadiq
Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan, Sarwat Gilani, Salman Peerzada, Sohail Sameer, Sania Saeed
Apoorva Charan, Sarmad Khoosat, Lauren Mann
all caps, Khoosat Films
Abdullah Siddiqui
Film Constellation
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