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Directors' Debuts Competition

Cinematographer: Joe Saade

Director: Saim Sadiq

Producer: Apoorva Guru Charan, Sarmad Sultan Khoosat

Writer: Maggie Briggs

Editor: Jasmin Tenucci

Cast: Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Salmaan Peerzada, Sarwat Gilani

Production Company: all caps, Film Manufacturers Inc., NNB Digital Media

Distribution company (world): Film Constellation

Distribution company: Film Constellation

Year: 2022

Country: Pakistan

Time: 126

Date and place:

2022.11.17, 12:45Cinema City - Screening Room No. 09

2022.11.17, 10:30Cinema City - Screening Room No. 09

In the heart of the metropolitan yet conservative city of Lahore lives the Rana family, a lower middle class joint family comprising of the old patriarch, the elder son and pregnant wife with three daughters, and the youngest son Haider and his wife Mumtaz. As the Rana’s eagerly anticipate the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, Haider secretly takes up a job as a background dancer at an erotic theatre where he is drawn to an ambitious trans starlet, Biba. Slowly yet suddenly, Haider and Biba are engulfed in a secret summer romance which surreptitiously takes over his home, unraveling the dichotomy between desire and morality for the entire Rana family.

Directors' Debuts Competition