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Director Saim Sadiq’s Joyland was highly praised when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival (the first Pakistani film to ever be selected), but it caused quite a bit of stir and discussion in Pakistan. The tender queer love story between a married man named Haider (Ali Junejo) and a transgender woman named Biba (Alina […]

Director Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, received a 13-minute standing ovation when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2022. Since then, it went on to be praised as one of the best films of the year, as well as being nominated for 9 Academy Awards. Although […]

Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All tells the story of Maren (outstandingly played by Taylor Russell), a young girl who’s abandoned by her father the day after she turns 18. The reason for his departure, which the film makes clear pretty much from the beginning, is that Maren is a cannibal. She has been one her […]