REQUIEME! (97mins)

Director LOY ARCENAS
Philippines | 2012 | 97 mins | Tagalog w/ES

Circus hijinks surround the barangay of Sta. Maria in the midst of an international gay murder sensation. Swanie, Sta. Maria’s barangay chair and a distant relative of the killer, tries to gain political points by staging a wake for the criminal-turned-celebrity. Meanwhile in faraway Manila, Joanna, Swanie’s runaway transvestite son, navigates her way through labyrinthine bureaucracy to give a neighbor a proper burial, using up the savings she had intended for a sex-change operation. With these two unrelated deaths, estranged mother and son each bury the dead long shelved in their hearts. Amidst these unspoken family burials, the neighborhoods’ penchant for funeral fiestas, sexual politics, gossip and secrets, and the sheer mix of scandal and inebriation complete the picture of dying, the Filipino way.

Producer Philippe CHAMBON and author Gina APOSTOL, whose short story, CUNANAN'S WAKE inspired REQUIEME!, will be in attendance for Q&A.

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