PRIDE ON SCREEN. In the heart of the metropolitan yet conservative city of Lahore lives the Rana family, a lower middle class joint family comprising of the old patriarch, the elder son and pregnant wife with three daughters, and the youngest son Haider (Ali Junejo) and his wife Mumtaz (Rasti Farooq). As the Rana’s eagerly anticipate the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, Haider secretly takes up a job as a background dancer at an erotic theatre where he is drawn to an ambitious trans starlet, Biba (Alina Khan). Soon Haider and Biba are engulfed in a secret summer romance which surreptitiously takes over his home, unraveling the dichotomy between desire and morality for the entire Rana family.

Winner of 15 international awards including the Queer Palm & Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Best International Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards, and the Young Cinema Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Saim Sadiq's acclaimed drama is told with a stunning honesty that's achingly bittersweet. Tackling gender and sexual fluidity in a repressed patriarchal society, JOYLAND is brimming with hopefulness and vitality.

Punjabi, Urdu languages, English subtitles.