About the Event
Joyland
Directed by Saim Sadiq
(Pakistan, 2022, 127 min.)
Friday, March 29 7:00 PM
Winner of the Prix du Jury and the Queer Palm at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show. “The right way to feel love, and the right way to feel part of a family, are the insoluble difficulties at the heart of this mysterious, sad and tender movie from Pakistan, a drama brimming with life and novelistic detail, directed by the first-time film-maker Saim Sadiq… This is a movie about people who find their inner lives and sense of themselves don’t match up to what is expected of them. Their feeling of wrongness is part of what they have to suppress, from day to day” — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Discounted parking is available at Founder’s Court, a $6 flat rate, credit card is required.
Open to the public.
