Singapore International Film Fest Features Pinoy Films
The 22nd Singapore International Film Festival will take place on April 14 to April 19, 2009 and a few Filipino films will be featured: Aureus Solito’s Boy, Francis Xavier Pasion’s Jay, Roxlee’s Cesar Asar and Lav Diaz’s Melancholia.
BOY
(Producer: Auraeus Solito, Endi “Hai†Balbuena, Screenplay: Jimmy Flores, Arturo Calo, Cast: Aeious Asin, Aries Pena, Madelaine Nicolas. Schedule: 19th Apr, 11:30am and 24th Apr, 7:15pm at The Substation)
Boy is a coming-of-age story about a boy who falls in love with a macho dancer:
A young budding poet, who is unnamed, observes lip-synching drag-queens and dancing rent-boys in a gay bar one evening and finds himself attracted to Aries, who comes from a poorer part of town. Selling his action heroes and comic books so as to be able to afford Aries for one night, he buys Aries at the bar and brings him home for the new year. Sparks fly while celebratory fireworks go off outside the house and the boys forge a fragile connection that neither of them is certain will last. This is an idealistic, coming-of-age tale of a sensitive boy who arrives at his first lesson about love and who learns to grow confidently into his own sexuality.
Boy is a finalist for the Asian Feature Film Competition.
Cinema Today is a section of the festival about films of today that will become tomorrow’s classics. From drama to comedy to documentaries, presenting the realities of today in this scope of films by some of the most watched filmmakers. The following Filipino films are featured:
