{"id":50282,"date":"2022-11-17T03:41:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T18:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/16\/film-depicting-transgender-love-affair-to-be-screened-in-pakistan"},"modified":"2022-11-17T03:41:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T18:41:39","slug":"film-depicting-transgender-love-affair-to-be-screened-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50282","title":{"rendered":"Film depicting transgender love affair to be screened in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cannes Jury prize-winning Joyland had previously been banned following objections by Islamist hardliners<\/p>\n<p>A Pakistani film portraying romance between a married man and a transgender woman was cleared for domestic screenings on Wednesday, officials said, reversing a government ban forced by Islamist pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Lauded by critics, awarded the jury prize at Cannes and nominated as Pakistan\u2019s entry for next year\u2019s Academy Awards, Joyland was set to open in cinemas across the country this Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/16\/film-depicting-transgender-love-affair-to-be-screened-in-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannes Jury prize-winning Joyland had previously been banned following objections by Islamist hardlinersA Pakistani film portraying romance between a married man and a transgender woman was cleared for domestic screenings on Wednesday, officials said, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2654,458,69,60,61,572,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannes-film-festival","category-censorship","category-film","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-transgender","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50283,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50282\/revisions\/50283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}