KASHISH 2023 SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
MAJA MA
Dir: Anand Tiwari
134 min / India / Hindi
A rumor about Pallavi Patel, a quintessential, middle aged, devoted housewife who is famous for her dance and cooking, threatens to disrupt her middle-class family’s ethos, on the eve of her son Tejas’ engagement with a rich, NRI girl.
JOYLAND
Dir: Saim Sadiq
126 min | Pakistan, USA | Punjabi, Urdu
The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
Winner of Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and Queer Palm at Cannes Film Festival 2022 and other international awards. It was in the shortlist for Academy Awards 2023 as Pakistan’s official entry.
