Wicked Queer 39

Joyland

جوائے لینڈ

With in person.

Sat, Apr 08 @ 2:30 pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Director

Saim Sadiq

Year

2022

Run Time

128

min

Country

Pakistan

Language

Urdu, Punjabi

PROGRAM Time

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

As a patriarchal family yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for a transgender starlet.

This film is presented in Urdu, Punjabi with English subtitles.

The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque, and he quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.

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