Manuel De Leon

Butterfly’s Utopia

Lukas Avendaño is the most important artist of the Muxe community. Poetry, dance and anthropology are the tools they use to enunciate and express themself. Since May 10, 2018, their brother Bruno mysteriously disappeared in Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. In Mexico, Bruno is one of 40 thousand missing persons. For Lukas, the search for Bruno has become their greatest utopia.

Will Your Heart Beat Faster?

In a spoof on the contemporary sacred cons, two yuppy couples get entangled with warring smugglers of dope that include fake priests and nuns as well as Japanese and Chinese agents.

A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino

Lamberto Avellana’s English-language film based on Nick Joaquin’s play about a painter, a painting, two sisters, and a crook.