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Manila Is Full of Men Named Boy

Manila Is Full of Men Named Boy

Andrew Stephen Lee
Philippines, SAD
2018
20'

- Wednesday, 14 November 2018
- 18:00
- Müller Hall

Manila, July 7, 2009. As Michael Jackson’s televised funeral plays throughout The Philippines, despite terrorist attacks in the south, an estranged son purchases a child who can drink and smoke, to impress his father. However, when the patriarch and his friends embrace the new child as one of their own, the question presents itself: what determines who is worthier of attention?

Subtitles: EN

Andrew Stephen Lee

After graduating from Loyola Marymount University, he assisted under Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg for three years. He then became an MFA Candidate at Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program. His thesis film Manila is Full of Men Named Boy premiered at Venice and was also screened in Busan.