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
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.
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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