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JOYLAND
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Sun 23 Apr 8:30 PM
CHEC Theatre
Assisted Listening
Wheelchair
Subtitled
Allocated Seating
Unclassified 15+
126 Mins | Saim Sadiq April
WINNER · QUEER PALM · CANNES
A stay-at-home husband secretly takes on a job as a backup dancer in an erotic theatre in Lahore, Pakistan, in this fearless Cannes Film Festival favourite.
Spirited daydreamer Haider happily bucks the status quo as a stay-at-home carer for his father and nieces, while his wife works as a make-up artist. But as generational pressure from the family patriarch mounts, Haider secretly seeks out a job as a background dancer in an erotic theatre. Increasingly drawn to the star of the show, the ambitious and glamourous trans starlet Biba, the ripples from their impossible romance slowly illuminates a desire for rebellion and freedom.
“Tartly funny and plungingly sad in equal measure, this is nuanced, humane queer filmmaking.” - Variety
In Urdu & Punjabi with English subtitles
A stay-at-home husband secretly takes on a job as a backup dancer in an erotic theatre in Lahore, Pakistan, in this fearless Cannes Film Festival favourite.
Spirited daydreamer Haider happily bucks the status quo as a stay-at-home carer for his father and nieces, while his wife works as a make-up artist. But as generational pressure from the family patriarch mounts, Haider secretly seeks out a job as a background dancer in an erotic theatre. Increasingly drawn to the star of the show, the ambitious and glamourous trans starlet Biba, the ripples from their impossible romance slowly illuminates a desire for rebellion and freedom.
“Tartly funny and plungingly sad in equal measure, this is nuanced, humane queer filmmaking.” - Variety
In Urdu & Punjabi with English subtitles
April
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