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

The Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Project Market features two new dramas. Eshah Shakeel’s 'Dancers' is a coming-of-age story about two youths in a Punjab town near Lahore who connect through secret dance lessons while torn between leaving Pakistan and staying. Meanwhile, Payal Sethi’s 'Babak' follows an Afghan asylum seeker in Germany who is displaced from temporary housing to accommodate Ukrainian refugees. Both projects highlight complex human struggles within the Asian Contents Film Market framework.