The world’s oldest film festival helded at Venice screened Pakistani filmmaker Saim Sadiq’s masterpiece Darling. Filmed in Lahore, considered the City of Gardens, Darling spills the story of a young boy and trans girl, a plot which undoubtedly lands a huge crack in conventional heteronormative narratives the society tends to shy from. Bear in mind that it is the first ever Pakistani film to make the cut for one of the Big Three film festivals: Cannes, Berlin and Venice. Darling's cast includes upcoming actress Mehar Bano and Nadia Afgan of Suno Chanda. The main leads are Shani, played by Abdullah Malik, and Alina, played by Alina, a trans girl from Lahore who makes her acting debut with this film. The director, Saim Sadiq, is a 28 year-old filmmaker from Lahore and a graduate student enrolled at Columbia University in New York.