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Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner Joyland has the distinction of being the first Pakistani film in official selection in Cannes. Director Saim Sadiq told Deadline\u2019s Cannes Studio that he learned of the selection while still finishing the movie. \u201cIt\u2019s been a lot to process to be able to finish the film and at the same time to be able to reconcile with the fact that it was my first film and Pakistan\u2019s first film.\u201d<\/p>\n
For producer Apoorva Guru Charan, the Cannes placement came with \u201ca sense of gratitude and also a sense of great responsibility. Saim and the film are repping a whole country and we\u2019re grateful to be in that position. I think we take that responsibility very, very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n
The story follows a patriarchal family as they yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, while their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theater and falls for a trans woman. The film explores a whole family, presenting a picture of a clan torn between modernity and tradition in contemporary Lahore.<\/p>\n
Deadline\u2019s review called the movie \u201ca thoughtful, well performed and engrossing drama set in a culture that\u2019s shifting, and not always with ease.\u201d<\/p>\n
Were there challenges shooting in Pakistan? The local industry has seen something of a resurgence in the past 15 years, Sadiq said, after cinema \u201ctook a beating\u201d during the dictatorship of the 1980s. Today, there are some big commercial films and a handful of indies, \u201cbut the lines are very blurred because there are maybe 20 films maximum per year that have been made in the past 15 years. So it is very difficult, particularly in the city we shot in which is Lahore, that is not even the hub of either the television or whatever film industry you can see there. But it has its benefits too because I think the film industry is so new and culture is having kind of a rebirth moment, you can do whatever you want. There\u2019s no rules, there\u2019s nothing you can recognize as a mainstream Pakistani film because that decision is up for grabs in a way. Creatively, I think it\u2019s liberating.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charan commented, however, that there was a lack of infrastructure and, \u201cwe tried to build that up while we were there. There was a lot of knowledge transfer from how we make films in the west and replicating that. The creative was still very Pakistani and authentic but what we put on top of it was the template of how we produce films in America. I think that worked really well in terms of execution.\u201d<\/p>\n
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