In the heart of the metropolitan yet conservative city of Lahore lives the Rana family, a lower middle class joint family comprising of the old patriarch, the elder son and pregnant wife with three daughters, and the youngest son Haider and his wife Mumtaz.

As the Rana’s eagerly anticipate the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, Haider secretly takes up a job as a background dancer at an erotic theatre where he is drawn to an ambitious trans starlet, Biba. Slowly yet suddenly, Haider and Biba are engulfed in a secret summer romance which surreptitiously takes over his home, unraveling the dichotomy between desire and morality for the entire Rana family.

Saim Sadiq is a Pakistani filmmaker whose film JOYLAND is the first Pakistani feature that premiered at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard.

His short film DARLING was the first Pakistani film to premiere at the 76th Venice Film Festival, where it won the Orrizonti Prize for Best Short Film. DARLING was also an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019, won a Special Jury Mention award at South by Southwest 2020 and was acquired for distribution by Focus Features.

His previous short film NICE TALKING TO YOU was an official selection at South by Southwest 2019, Palm Springs International Shortsfest 2019, made the BAFTA Shortlist for Best Student Film and won Vimeo’s Best Director award at Columbia University Film Festival 2018. It also won the Kodak Student Scholarship Gold Award.

Sadiq recently wrote the original pilot “It Never Rains in Cairo” for MakeReady with Brad Weston and
Scott Silver executive producing. Currently, he is writing the film adaptation of New York Times bestseller “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet’’; Oscar-nominated Bing Liu is attached to direct. Sadiq received his bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the Lahore University of Management Sciences and his MFA in film directing from Columbia University.

Taeko and her husband Jiro are living a peaceful existence with her young son Keita, when a tragic accident brings the boy’s long-lost father, Park, back into her life. To cope with the pain and guilt, Taeko throws herself into helping this deaf and homeless man.

Koji Fukada was born in 1980 in Tokyo. He attended Faculty of Literature at Taisho University and began taking classes in filmmaking at the same time at Film School of Tokyo in 1999.
After making his first feature film The Chair, he joined the Seinendan theatrical company headed by Oriza Hirata in 2005. Fukada made Hospitalité (Kantai) in 2010 and Au revoir l’été (Hotori no Sakuko) in 2013. His film Harmonium won the Jury Award in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2016.
In 2018, Fukada was awarded Chevalier of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and made The Man from the Sea (Umi wo Kakeru) a film shot in Indonesia.
In 2019, his feature film A Girl Missing (Yokogao) is selected at Locarno Film Festival. In the same year, Fukada made a TV series The Real Thing (Honki no Shirushi : Gekijo ban) for the Japanese television. He edited the series into a 228 minutes feature which has received the Cannes label 2020.
Together with directors like Hirokazu Kore-eda and Nobuhiro Suwa he campaigns for the
creation of a Japanese CNC.

A female novelist takes a long trip to visit a bookstore, run by a younger colleague who has fallen out of touch. Then she goes up a tower on her own and runs into a film director and his wife. They take a walk in a park and meet an actress, after which the novelist tries to convince the actress to make a film with her. She and the actress get something to eat, then revisit the bookstore where a group of people are drinking. The actress gets drunk and falls asleep…

Hong Sang Soo was born in Seoul, Korea in oct. 25th 1960 and studied at Chungang University, California College of Arts, the school of Art Institute of Chicago. Made the first feature film in 1996. Since then he made 26 feature films and a few short films. Currently is teaching at Konkuk University in Seoul.

On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first
time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. The headstrong young
woman starts looking for her biological parents in a country she knows so little about, taking
her life in new and unexpected directions.

Davy Chou is a French director and producer born in 1983, based between Paris and Phnom Penh.
He co-founded the French production company Vycky Films and the Cambodian production
company Anti-Archive.

Grandson of Cambodian producer Van Chann, Davy Chou directed in 2011 “Golden Slumbers”
(Forum – Berlinale 2012), a documentary about the birth of Cambodian cinema in the 1960s and its brutal destruction by the Khmer Rouge in 1975. He has also directed several short films including “Cambodia 2099” (Directors’ Fortnight – Cannes 2014).

His first feature, “Diamond Island”, produced by Aurora Films and co-produced by Anti-Archive
and Vandertastic, was awarded the SACD Prize at Critics’ Week- Cannes 2016.

His second feature, “Return to Seoul”, produced by Aurora Films and co-produced by Vandertastic and Frakas Productions, is selected at Un Certain Regard – Cannes 2022.

In parallel, Davy Chou continues his activity as a producer: he has recently produced Cambodian filmmakers, including Kavich Neang (“White Building” – Venice Film Festival 2021)
and was also line producer on “Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle” by Arthur Harari (Un
Certain Regard – Cannes 2021).