Joyland

Presented in partnership with Leeds International Film Festival

​

Wednesday 15 February, 7:00pm

The Vue Cinema

The Light 
Leeds LS1 8TL

​

An audience favourite at LIFF 2022, Saim Sadiq’s dazzling debut feature is a bittersweet tale of repressed desire and the quest for individual freedom.

Unassuming Haider Rana, has a seemingly happy arranged marriage and an ordered family life, living under the same roof as the rest of the Rana clan and his strict patriarchal father.

When Haider secretly becomes a backing dancer for an erotic dance cabaret and falls for glamourous trans starlet Biba, family ties begin to strain.