Houston’s Rung Film Festival returns to Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston on May 16 and 17, celebrating Pakistani ...

Houston Pakistani film fest grows into global platform ...

Ali Junejo as Haider Rana in Saim Sadiq’s Joyland (2022) (all images courtesy Oscilloscope Laboratories) Joyland is told through the lens of bumbling and soft-natured black sheep Haider Rana, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pakistani cinema is poised to embrace the horror genre again with “Deemak” (meaning “Termite”), a psychological supernatural ...

Saim Sadiq’s feature “Joyland,” which includes a transgender woman’s love affair, cannot be shown in Pakistan’s Punjab Province. By Carlos Aguilar Reporting from Hollywood, Calif. Over the past year, ...

It’s 1959, a black-and-white film about the suffering of fishermen in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) quietly crossed the ocean and landed on the Academy's desk. The Day Shall Dawn, written by Faiz ...

A year ago, Joyland took home multiple prizes as Pakistan's first feature film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival. The independent film was the country's official entry to the Oscars, and Malala ...

Left Handed Films, the production company of Academy Award-winning producer and actor Riz Ahmed, has joined the Pakistani film “Joyland” as an executive producer. Written and directed by Saim Sadiq, ...

Last year, a small independent movie by a debut director premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Called “Joyland,” it was notably the first Pakistani feature to screen at the world’s most prestigious ...

Was Rose Pak a power broker? Demonstrably yes. Was she also a kingmaker? Arguably so. And in Pak’s last days before her death, was she a “lion in winter,” as San Francisco Magazine dubbed her, leading ...