Joyland - Expat Cinema Rotterdam
Miss seeing international films because you can’t yet keep up with the Dutch subtitles? Want to meet fellow expats and new Dutch folks? Love cinema? Then this is the event for you! Curated international films with English subtitles & meetup drinks afterwards.
Joyland is the oldest amusement park in Lahore, the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab. It is a place where people like Haider and his pregnant wife Mumtaz like to forget all their worries. She lives daily with the pressure that the patriarchal society of Pakistan puts on her – she will have to give birth to a son – while Haider is hiding something huge. He secretly works as a background dancer for Biba, a trans woman who performs in an exotic dance club. When he also falls in love with Biba, a culture clash erupts, which will undo his conservative environment.
Winner of the Queer Palm at Cannes and the first major Pakistani film in which a trans character is played by a trans actrice.
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Miss seeing international films because you can’t yet keep up with the Dutch subtitles? Want to meet fellow expats and new Dutch folks? Love cinema? Then this is the event for you! Curated international films with English subtitles & meetup drinks afterwards.
Joyland is the oldest amusement park in Lahore, the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab. It is a place where people like Haider and his pregnant wife Mumtaz like to forget all their worries. She lives daily with the pressure that the patriarchal society of Pakistan puts on her – she will have to give birth to a son – while Haider is hiding something huge. He secretly works as a background dancer for Biba, a trans woman who performs in an exotic dance club. When he also falls in love with Biba, a culture clash erupts, which will undo his conservative environment.
Winner of the Queer Palm at Cannes and the first major Pakistani film in which a trans character is played by a trans actrice.
