Philippines LGBT Feature Films, Shorts and Series
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- DirectorJoel LamanganEric QuizonStarsLorna TolentinoEric QuizonAlbert MartinezIs three always a crowd? What if one daring woman afraid of being left behind by Mother Time sets out to seduce one handsome guy who without her knowledge is hiding an explosive secret in his closet? What if she succeeds and she ends up being knocked up by him? And what if she discovers that he is gay and that he has a live-in partner who is also gay? Can the three of them live in peace and harmony under one roof? Or will they be forever trapped inside the notion that three is always a crowd? A funny heart warming story about three extraordinary people and their extraordinary relationship.
- DirectorTomer HeymannA group of transgender and gay Filipinos people emigrate to Israel to take care of elderly religious Jewish men. On their one day off per week, they perform as drag performers in a group called the Paper Dolls. On the political level, it explores the perils of global immigration. In this case, after the second Intifada, the Israeli government unofficially opened its doors to illegal workers to replace the Palestinians who were no longer allowed in the country. As tensions with the Palestinians eased, the government changed its policy and began to forcibly deport these foreign guest workers with dramatic consequences for our characters. On the human level, the film is about people who are rejected by their own families for being gay or transgender and who emigrate and end up with jobs taking care of other people's parents who have been rejected by their own children because they are old, difficult, etc. They work grueling hours to send money back to the Philippines to support the families that have rejected them. As unbelievable as it may seem, these very different people (old religious Jews and transgender people from the Philippines) form very deep, quasi familial bonds.
- DirectorLemuel LorcaStarsAngeli BayaniMax EigenmannBiboy RamirezAn itinerant tattoo artist joins a talent reality show for lesbians in the hopes of winning the prize money that will enable her to get artificially inseminated and achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a mother.
- DirectorAdolfo Alix Jr.StarsCogie DomingoSid LuceroRocky SalumbidesAn ex-seminarian/Communist runs a hotel in Baguio and meets a handsome, up-and-coming lawyer. An annual trip to Baguio by the lawyer and conversations with the hotelier develop into an affair that encompasses decades of sociopolitical changes in the country.
- DirectorMarilou Diaz-AbayaStarsLorna TolentinoGina AlajarSandy AndolongJoey, Kathy, Sylvia, and Maritess, best friends from 1979 to 1982, navigate drug use, singing dreams, unconventional relationships, and housewife roles, depicting personal battles and societal challenges during that period.
- DirectorGil PortesStarsRomnick SarmentaGloria DiazRay VenturaMiguel, a young trans woman from Quezon province, leaves the Philippines for the U.S. After seven years, she returns home, and her family discovers she had a gender affirmation operation and is now Michelle. She declares she will stay until her family accepts her. This proves iffy: mom is embarrassed by the scandal; dad is angry and rejecting, feeling his own manhood undermined. In a sub-plot, Michelle's best friend Julio, whom Michelle knows is gay, announces his engagement to Sonja. Michelle tries to talk Julio out of the marriage. Julio and Sonja's decisions, Michelle's changing relationship with her tatay, and her own need to confront anew the nature of her sexuality complete the film.
- DirectorRomy VillaflorStarsDolphyRoderick PaulateZsa Zsa Padilla
- DirectorJoselito AltarejosStarsHarry LaurelJennifer LeeJustin De LeonMateo is a lighthouse caretaker dating a teacher, Suzette, in a small town that is trying to increase tourism. Jerome stumbles across Mateo and Suzette having sex while he is on holiday from Manila. A local gay man who pays local teenage boys for sex talks to Mateo about the negative aspects of being gay in the Philippines. According to local legend, a lighthouse fairy seduces desirable men who then never marry. Mateo's relationship with Jerome leads to self-reevaluation.
- DirectorCrisaldo PabloStarsAndoy RanayJojo NonesRey PumaloyAfter thousands of dates, Cris settled down, met Erik and found love. The two have been together for months now and their relationship is beginning to show signs of falling apart. Cris is constantly wondering over Erik's long work hours and time spent away from home. Doubt has entered their relationship.
- DirectorWenn V. DeramasStarsJoey ParasTom RodriguezTirso Cruz IIIBekikang is left and abandoned with a baby boy by his friend Fortunato. He loves and raises the child as his own flesh and blood. Years later, when things are going quite well between Bekikang and the boy, Fortunato and the boy's mother reappear and want to take him back.
- DirectorAlbert LangitanStarsPaolo BallesterosYam ConcepcionPolo RavalesA gay guy gets into an accident and is washed up on a remote island; when he awakens, he remembers nothing, not even his sexual orientation. He develops a romance with a barrio lady and finds happiness--but then then his boyfriend is able to locate him.
- DirectorOlaf de Fleur JohannessonStarsRaquela RiosStefan C. SchaeferOlivia GaludoRaquela, a transsexual from the Philippines, dreams of escaping the streets of Cebu City for a fairy tale life in Paris.
- DirectorPetersen VargasStarsKhalil RamosEthan SalvadorJameson BlakeFelix is a friendless achiever in high school whose life changes after the arrival of the half-American Snyder brothers, entangling him in their dark ambitions.
- DirectorMel ChiongloStarsTyron PerezCherry Pie PicacheAllen DizonDwight, a fresh newcomer to the dance bars, has a part-time lover, Alfred, who at 28 is already is on his way down, as the two negotiate the perilous world of dancing for money.
- DirectorWenn V. DeramasStarsVice GandaLuis ManzanoGloria RomeroPeter Kasimsiman was once a submissive son to his parents. But losing his mother at a tender age, left him with an abusive father who only knew of tending to his carriage horse, Brown Beauty. Peter is eager to win the love and attention of his indifferent Tatay. But an unfortunate incident forces him to run away from home. His horrible life starts to change its course when he meets the nurturing haciendera Helena who provides him shelter and unconditional affection he knew his father would never be able to give. Helena teaches Peter love and kindness, grooming him as the sole heir to the hacienda in the event of her death. Albeit fueled with the guidance of the good-natured foster mother, who's known for her passionate concern for her employees, Peter has an intolerable bad temper especially towards her mother's loyal servant, Maita and the latter's beautiful and gifted daughter, Samantha. Peter's almost perfect life is threatened as people from the hacienda adore the beauty and goodwill of Samantha. These include the estate's striking horse trainer, Erickson, the good-looking veterinarian, Dickson and even the trusted estate horse, Sylvester. Add the unwanted presence of his long-lost sister, Peter's life seemed like an everyday living hell. Little did Peter know that Diobayo, the Goddess of Horses, watches every move he makes as he grows oblivious to other people and the surrounding horses' needs. To teach Peter a painful lesson, Diobayo cursed him transforming him into the horse, Petra, whenever he acts surly and proud. Will Peter choose to continue his grumpy personality? Or will he be able to use his 'horse instinct' to change for the better?
- DirectorAuraeus SolitoStarsNathan LopezSoliman CruzJR ValentinA young boy falls in love with a handsome policeman who is investigating his family's criminal activities.
- DirectorJoel LamanganStarsJudy Ann SantosRaymart SantiagoDennis TrilloInya, a heroine of the Philippine resistance against the Japanese during World War II, recalls events involving her husband Edilberto and their childhood friend Ignacio, a transvestite who, masquerading as a woman also named Inya, becomes the lover of the local Japanese commander Ichiru, and is caught between duty to be a spy for his country and friends and his reluctant but growing love for Ichiru.
- DirectorGil PortesStarsDolphyEric QuizonJeffrey QuizonGil M Portes (Miguel/Michelle, 1999) tells the unconventional true story of Walter Dempster, Jr, otherwise known as Markova. After watching a documentary about the suffering of women forced into prostitution during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, Markova decides to tell his own painful story to reporter Loren Legarda. Escaping the torment of growing up with an abusive older brother, he and his friends found further suffering at the hands of Japanese soldiers, forced into sex work to survive. But even after the war, Markova's struggle continued.
- DirectorJoel LamanganStarsEddie GarciaGloria RomeroTony MabesaIt tells the story of an old man who comes out as gay to his children in his senior years, to take care of his ailing lover.
- DirectorEduardo W. Roy Jr.StarsMimi JuarezaMiggs CuadernoJunjun QuintanaLife of Dorina, a middle-aged trans woman (played by the trans actress Mimi Juareza) who is looking for her niche midst the complexities of the world she is in. This is a story of suffering, acceptance and hope.
- DirectorMaryo J. de los ReyesStarsAnton BernardoAna CapriAlan PauleMelvin, a social worker, meets handsome stripper Efren and they become friends. When Melvin's mother dies, he moves in with Efren and his three female roommates.
- DirectorJoel LamanganStarsKris AquinoEric QuizonTonton GutierrezTalkative Lianne and colorful gay Osmond become fast friends when they meet at the first Gay Pride Parade in Malate in the early 80's. For the next thirty-plus years of their lives, they'll do everything together, whether it's eating, shopping, discussing life and even looking for the perfect man! So inseparable are their pair that even their mothers become best friends too.
- DirectorJerry Lopez SinenengStarsMaricel SorianoDiether OcampoClaudine BarrettoAn established woman falls in love with a much younger man. However, their relationship is met with trials and conflicts brought by their age difference.
- DirectorBrillante MendozaStarsJohnny DelgadoCherry Pie PicacheAngel AquinoThe story is set in Guagua, Pampanga a decade after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo which ravaged the province with lahar. It follows the lives of woodcarver Rodolfo "Mang Rudy" Manansala and his three daughters and their relationships with the people close to them in the span of seven summers. Youngest daughter Grace marries mama's-boy Conrad and faces the reality of leaving her ancestral home, to which she is deeply rooted, to live with her in-laws. Grace. Much against her will, to the point of staging an escape, she yields to the dictates of tradition. Yet she manages to cope with married life, and in her fourth year of marriage she's pregnant with her second child. Middle daughter Lourdes, married to weakling Andy Pineda with whom she has a daughter, has an illicit affair with a bank manager, which gives Mang Rudy a heart attack and confines him to bed. For a while numbed by his wife's infidelity, Andy realizes his insignificance and retaliates by beating up and nearly killing Lourdes. Lourdes atones for her guilt by ministering to Andy's wounds after he joins the rituals of the flagellants during the Holy Week. However, they both decide to separate. Eldest daughter Jess is a lesbian whose bitter luck in life is being unwanted by her own father. Yet she serves Mang Rudy to the hilt after he gets bedridden, and she lets her girlfriend Rowena move in with them, not as much for their conveniences as lovers but so Rowena can help with the chores and looking after Mang Rudy. But when a conflict arises between Lourdes and Rowena, Mang Rudy sends Rowena away. A year later, Mang Rudy succumbs to a second attack and when he dies several months later, Rowena sets foot in the ancestral house to pay her last respects. At the wake, Rowena realizes that, like Andy, she has never belonged and decides to leave Jess. She realigns herself with normal procedures by getting married while Jess and her sisters move on with life. The story is told in three segments, each segment told from a different sister's viewpoint. Attached to each segment are social occasions popularly observed in the Philippines, each with a symbolic motif represented by the elements sun, fire, water, air, blood, moon, and earth. With Rowena's wedding at the end of the film, as in Grace's wedding at the start, a full cycle of life has transpired.
- DirectorJason Paul LaxamanaStarsAngel LocsinZanjoe MarudoSam MilbyAndi, an aspiring fashion designer, is trying to win back her first love slash ex-beau, Max, a surgeon. Andi thought her plan to win Max's heart will go smoothly, but Max found a new love unto a gay pediatrician named Christian.