PELIkulayA International LGBTQIA+ Film Festival – Rainbow Shorts 2022

PELIkulayA International LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2022

RAINBOW SHORTS
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Short | 2019 | 7min | R-13
★★★★★
Director:
Roylan Modina
Sypnopsis:
Ken is at a high point of his career. He spends his days getting ready for his new lead role and getting into the skin of his new character: A, a troubled young man who tries to commit suicide after getting rejected by the man he loves. But Ken has another fight to deal with and while he’s family and friends are supportive, his hope
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Alex & Aki
Drama, Romance | 2019 | 7min | PG
★★★★★
Director:
Dexter Paul De Jesus
Sypnopsis:
Few minutes before their dance recital, two men, Alex and Aki, face their own dilemma. Little did they know, they are dancing for their life.
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Ang Gasgas na Plaka ni Lolo Bert
Romance, Short | 2019 | 19min | PG
★★★★★
Director:
Janina Gacosta
Sypnopsis:
A closeted gay man in his 60s has been living with HIV for 10 years. His life revolves around his small, shabby apartment. Isolating himself from the world, his daily routine consists of listening to AM radio stations and planning his long-awaited funeral. Without a friend or a family member left, he plans to kill himself as soon as he pays his memorial plan in full. While he continues to give in to emptiness, a package from his dead ex-lover arrives in his apartment. His monotonous life suddenly takes a sudden turn when he opens the package and sees an old vinyl record. Even though he fails to admit it, he felt a tinge of excitement for the first time in years. But that feeling didn’t last long because as he tries to play the old vinyl record, it suddenly stops during the middle of the song. Out of his frustration, he goes to a shop that repairs & restores old vinyl records. He meets the owner, a lonely widower in his 50s. The lonely widower can’t seem to fix the old vinyl record completely. The old man goes back and forth to the repair shop. Amidst loneliness, the two unexpectedly form an unlikely bond. As their connection blossoms, the old vinyl record becomes completely fixed. The old man listens to the song, memories of his former ex-lover resurfaces for a while but fades away as the song is finished. He scratches the old vinyl record, goes back to the repair shop and takes another chance at love.
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Doon Sa Isang Sulok
Short | 2019 | 9min | PG
★★★★★
Director:
Alfredo Tapang Jr.
Sypnopsis:
A supposed “happy gathering” amongst childhood friends becomes a bitter revelation as Jason, an openly gay man, attempts to discuss a serious and personal matter, only to find out that his friends are a homophobic bunch after all these years. Surprised with his friends’ views on his sexual orientation and LGBTQ issues in general, powdered with toxic masculinity, he decides to keep the issue to himself as he walks out of the party, and eventually from the friendship he thought he had with them.
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Gulis
Family, Short | 2019 | 8min | PG
★★★★★
Director:
Kyle Jumayne Francisco
Sypnopsis:
Andrei is a thriving painter whose father, Jun, isn’t in full support of his passion. Their lives take a turn when they both discover Andrei’s health status.
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Panihapon
Short | 2019 | 6min | PG
★★★★★
Director:
Eli Razo
Sypnopsis:
After being released from hospital, James, a successful engineer, is preparing a dinner for his parents’ visitation at his apartment. He is cooking pasta with red sauce and Dinuguan. His parents arrive at his apartment. At the dinner, he gave a medical certificate to his parents and reveals his HIV positive status. His parents accepted him right away and with hope that he could be cured from the disease. The scene is rewind right at the moment that his parents arrive at his apartment. During dinner, he gives a medical certificate to his parents and reveals that he is positive with HIV His parents could not accept him and feel ashamed of his disease. The scene is rewind for the third time. As the moment his parents ring the doorbell, James did not open the door. Instead, he walks to the dinner table and starts eating the medical certificate with Dinuguan and pasta on his plate. After eating, he walks to the door to open it.
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