Joyland

Haider rushes his sister-in-law to the hospital, where she gives birth to a girl, devastating the extended family desperate for a baby boy. The brothers’ elderly father is still hopeful Haider and his wife, Mumtaz, despite their unorthodox relationship, will bring them their much-desired male heir. Everything changes, though, when Haider takes a job as a backup dancer at an erotic theater and falls in love with its beautiful transgender star Biba.

Keywords

  • Awarded Queer Movies
  • Best first feature
  • Cannes: Un Certain Regard
  • Festival de Cannes
  • Film Fest Gent !
  • Love Story
  • Queer Romance
  • Sundance Film Festival !
  • TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival
  • queer

Actors

  • Ali Junejo
  • Rasti Farooq
  • Alina Khan
  • Sarwat Gilani
  • Salmaan Peerzada

Director

  • Saim Sadiq

Drama, Romance


2h 6min


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Pakistan
United States of America
2022
Haider takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes infatuated with the trans woman who runs the show.

Haider takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes infatuated with the trans woman who runs the show.


Haider rushes his sister-in-law to the hospital, where she gives birth to a girl, devastating the extended family desperate for a baby boy. The brothers’ elderly father is still hopeful Haider and his wife, Mumtaz, despite their unorthodox relationship, will bring them their much-desired male heir. Everything changes, though, when Haider takes a job as a backup dancer at an erotic theater and falls in love with its beautiful transgender star Biba.

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