CANNES, May 26 ― The first-ever Pakistani entry in a Cannes Film Festival competition has left audiences slack-jawed and admiring of its daring portrait of a transgender dancer in the Muslim country.by director Saim Sadiq, a tale of sexual revolution, tells the story of the youngest son in a patriarchal family who is expected to produce a baby boy with his wife but joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for the troupe's director, a trans woman.
In 2009, Pakistan legally recognised a third sex, and in 2018, the first transgender passport was issued.“You get, of course, prejudice and some violence against a particular community on the one hand, but you also get this very progressive law which basically allows everyone to identify their own gender, and also identifies a third gender,” he said.
“They were associated with art and poetry, they were the ones asked to teach manners to royals, to educate princes and princesses ― that was their space in society,” he said.“But nor is it like it might be in the imagination of somebody who thinks: 'Muslim world'. At some level, they are freer than what you might anticipate,” he added.
And while trans women are a familiar sight in streets in Pakistan, “unfortunately they'll be begging, or whatever”.The film's trans dancer character, Biba, is played by Alina Khan who is herself a transgender woman.
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