Ara Chawdhury

Thanh, a non-binary gaming and anime nerd, has just discovered their roommate has made them a dating profile, showing a total misunderstanding of their affinity to romantic relationships and sexual intimacy. In the wake of this harrowing conflict, the two friends face a push and pull dilemma as Thanh realizes the only way to stop this is to stand up for themself.

A young drag queen, Dodong, who joins a barangay gay pageant to gain acceptance in his father’s community. He is instead met with hostility from his father, who chases him into a jungle, where he sobs to a lone bright star. What follows is the strangest night in his entire life, and an even stranger nine months when he realises he is pregnant. Dodong deals with ridicule from a barangay who does not believe him.

A Filipino-American boxer on a pleasure trip, a prostitute on a mission, a local drug dealer experimenting with time travel, and a social climber all cross paths in Cebu, the beautiful Philippine southern island, in this deliriously imagined occult superhero movie.

Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.

Donna, a transgender sex worker in Manila, moves back to her small hometown in search of a new life. Once there, she reunites with her child, who knows her as his aunt, and becomes caught up in the intrigues surrounding a critical local election, working to unseat the corrupt mayor.

One city, one day, seven stories. The first of seven Binisaya Exquisite Corpse Experiment.