F/PAK 2022 | 122 Min. | DCP | OmU World Cinema
As the Ranas yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son Haider secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for an ambitious trans starlet. „‚Joyland‘ is a de-romanticization of a coming-of-age tale and a homage to all the women, men, and trans people who pay the human cost of patriarchy. It is also a celebration of the desire that creates unlikely bonds and the love that immortalizes them. Ultimately, it is but a heartbroken love letter to my homeland.“ (Saim Sadiq)
Director: Saim Sadiq
Script: Saim Sadiq, Maggie Briggs
Photographer: Joe Saade
Editor: Jasmin Tenucci, Saim Sadiq
Music: Abdullah Siddiqui
Cast: Ali Junejo, Alina Khan, Rasti Farooq, Sarwat Gilani, Sohail Sameer, Salman Peerzada, Sania Saeed
Production company: All Caps + Khoosat Films / Apoorva Charan, Sarmad Khoosat, Lauren Mann, Kathryn M. Moseley, Oliver Ridge, April Shih, Sana Jaf, Katharina Otto-Bernstein
Distributor: Filmperlen
