Last year, a small independent movie by a debut director premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Called “Joyland,” it was notably the first Pakistani feature to screen at the world’s most prestigious ...

Last May an ensemble of actors and filmmakers from Pakistan walked the legendary carpet into the Cannes Film Festival to make national and film history. Joyland became the first feature film from ...

A year ago, "Joyland" took home multiple prizes as Pakistan’s first feature film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival. The independent film was the country’s official entry to the Oscars, and Malala ...

It’s one of the many resonant pleasures of “Joyland,” a visually arresting, politically forceful melodrama from Pakistan, that you’ll spend the early going figuring out exactly who its characters are ...

Lahore (Pakistan) (AFP) – The local screening of a Pakistan-produced movie portraying a love affair between a married man and a transgender woman hangs in the balance after the film was cleared by ...

The film follows a man who gets a job in a burlesque show and falls in love with a trans woman. This story of queer desire in a traditional Muslim... Briefly banned, Pakistan's ground-breaking ...

Rasti Farooq (from left), Saim Sadiq, Ali Junejo, Alina Khan, Sania Saeed, Sarmad Khoosat, Apoorva Charan, Sana Jafri and Sarwat Gilani arrive for the screening of the film Joyland at the 75th edition ...