Pakistan’s First Ever Cannes Film Festival Screening Is A Dream Come True
Sarwat Gilani described the premiere screening of Pakistan's first submission to the Cannes Film Festival as "a dream come true."
“It seemed like all of the hard effort that people put in, all of the challenges that we experience as artists in Pakistan had paid off,” Gilani remarked on Tuesday when the submission to Cannes Film Festival was made.
Joyland competes in the “Un Certain Regard” division, a category focusing more on independent films that run parallel to the main “Palme d’Or” prize. Gilani, a film and TV star best known for her newest series Churails, portrays Nucchi in Joyland.
Nucci comes from a family that has long waited for the birth of a male to carry on the family line, despite her conservative father-in-dissatisfaction laws with her three girls.
Her brother-in-law Haider, meantime, is secretly in love with Biba, a transgender woman fighting for the opportunity to work as a performer.
When Haider’s wife Mumtaz is obliged to stay at home and handle domestic duties instead of earning from the profession of being a make-up artist, Joyland addresses the frustrations of women attempting to pursue a career.
“It’s no longer only about a love tale.” “It’s about current events, real-life concerns that we all face,” Gilani explained in the premier for Cannes submission. “Having a woman, a trans woman represents that part of society, I think it’s a huge step forward in terms of saying we can create progressive tales.”
Gilani expressed her hope that Pakistani moviegoers will respond to Joyland with the same enthusiasm as they did at Cannes.
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