Pakistani Drama ‘Dancers’ Brings a Generation Torn Between Leaving and Staying Home to Busan Asian Project Market

By Naman Ramachandran

Naman Ramachandran

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The pull between leaving Pakistan and staying rooted there drives “Dancers,” writer-director Eshah Shakeel’s coming-of-age drama about two young people in a Punjab town near Lahore who bond through clandestine dance lessons.

The project is part of the Asian Project Market, which runs within the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents & Film Market.

Paras wants nothing more than to get out of the country. Ramza, still working out who she is, faces a marriage that was arranged for her as a child. Around them, construction of a new road is splitting the town between those who welcome change and those who see it as an assault on the way things have always been.

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