BoY
2009, Phillipines, 80 min, Digital Beta, Filipino and English, Canada Premiere
Director: Kanakan Balintagos
Presented as part of:
BoY
Oct 17 2009, 9:00PM
Al Green Theatre
While nursing a drink in a quiet Manila gay bar, a young poet is seduced by the slow, sensual dance of one of the club’s male performers. Captivated, he surreptitiously takes his newfound lover home where his single mother prepares New Year’s dinner. Amidst fireworks and comic books, he has his first sexual encounter and a night he will never forget. Acclaimed filmmaker Kanakan Balintagos revisits themes of budding sexuality and hidden love that he so beautifully portrayed in The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros.
Manila-based filmmaker Kanakan Balintagos (Palaw’an) received international acclaim for his first feature film, Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros), including at imagineNATIVE and the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won Best Dramatic Feature in 2006. BoY is his fourth feature film.
