US PREMIERE

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

THROWBACK FROM 

1994

Midnight Dancers

Sibak

Saturday

Jun 17, 1995

@

7:00 pm

11th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

With in person.
Director
Mel Chionglo
Year
1994
Run Time
100
min
Country
Philippines
Language
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
Brothers Joel, Dennis and Sonny work together as dancers at a low-rent gay bar in downtown Manila, in the Philippines. Despite his mother’s pleas, Sonny decides to quit college to work full-time at the bar, while Dennis has moved beyond dancing into prostitution at the urging of the manipulative club manager. Joel, the eldest, tries to balance his secret gay life with his socially respectable role as a husband and father.
This film is presented in with English subtitles.
A portrait of three brothers held together by their mother while they explore Manila’s gay culture and work as “macho dancers” or “sibak" (a “baklese”—gay slang term for male prostitutes). Directed by one of the Phillipines most polished and intelligent directors, Mel Chiongo, it is unlike any other film in its fascination and erotic charge.
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