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.It is the first-ever Pakistani competitive entry at the Cannes festival and on Friday also won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard competition, a segment focusing on young, innovative cinema talent.
"It's a very powerful film, that represents everything that we stand for," Queer Palm jury head, French director Catherine Corsini, told AFP., which features a lesbian couple's relationship against the backdrop of the Yellow Vest movement in France. will echo across the world," Corsini said."It has strong characters who are both complex and real. Nothing is distorted. We were blown away by this film.
The Queer Palm has been won by big-name directors in the past and attracted top talent to its juries, but has no official place at the world's top film festival. Awards for films with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer content are already an integral part of other major movie gatherings, including Berlin which has handed out its Teddy Award since 1987, and made it part of its official programme.
Not so at Cannes, where the festival's leadership will not even allow the Queer Palm - which has been running for a decade - to set up shop in its main building, the Palais du Festival.Past winners of the prize, created in 2010 by critic Franck Finance-Madureira, include Todd Haynes for
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