Begana x SQIFF
Joyland + Discussion Group
Sat 10 June 2023
![SDH captioning](https://www.cca-glasgow.com/media/events/SubtitlesforDeafHardofHearing-200.png)
SDH captioning
![Wheelchair accessible](https://www.cca-glasgow.com/media/events/WheelchairAccessible-200.png)
Wheelchair accessible
![Hearing loop](https://www.cca-glasgow.com/media/events/Hearing-Loop-Icon.png)
Hearing loop
Quiet room available
![A night scene of a man holding the large cut out of a woman whilst riding a moped across a bridge.](/imager/events/133564/Joyland-_-Haidar-Biba_515cffaa34c7b727c9423a5db08aae1f.jpg)
Joyland dir. Saim Sadiq (2022)
As the Ranas - a happily patriarchal joint family - yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for an ambitious trans starlet.
Their impossible love story slowly illuminates the entire Rana family’s desire for a sexual rebellion.
Discussion Group
After the screening, there will be a discussion group facilitated by Nat Raha to decompress together and unpack the themes and topics explored in the film.
Please note that the discussion group is exclusively for anyone who is a person of colour (POC) or identifies as LGBTQ+.
![A woman driving a red moped down a street with a man riding on the back. The background is a blur.](/imager/events/133609/Joyland-_-Bike_08a5e4a90156059912c21abea3b8a6e0.jpg)
![A man and a woman about to kiss, in a dark room. She gently holds his face, as a green star illuminates their faces.](/imager/events/133557/Joyland_Kiss_515cffaa34c7b727c9423a5db08aae1f.jpg)
![A festive scene of a group of people at a South Asian wedding, people wear bright saris with colourful bunting over them](/imager/events/133556/Joyland_Wedding_515cffaa34c7b727c9423a5db08aae1f.jpg)
![A south asian man and woman on a train, both are smiling, the man is looking down whilst the woman looks at the camera.](/imager/events/133608/Joyland_Subway_a328b1d2724bb7c24798e1e443b62a2a.jpg)
![Two women in the back of a car at night, one rests her head against the other's shoulder. Both are laughing.](/imager/events/133551/Joyland-_-Ride_52a4cc923d75810c3acbb05732abd4b4.jpg)
This screening is presented by Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) in collaboration with Begana: Musing on Queer South Asian Stories (programmed by Neha Apsara).
About Nat Raha
Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar, a South Asian British trans queer femme, and a Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Her books of poetry include Of sirens, Body & Faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018) and Apparitions (nines) (Winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize, forthcoming 2024). Recent critical and creative writing appears in Queer Print in Europe, 100 Queer Poems, Transgender Marxism, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, and Third Text (‘Imagining Queer Europe then and now’, 2021). With Mijke van der Drift, Nat co-edits Radical Transfeminism zine, and is currently co-authoring a book Trans Femme Futures: An Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (forthcoming, 2024).