INFORMATION
Director: Joel C. Lamangan
Year: 2021
Duration: 88’
Language: VOSE | VOSC
Genre: Drama
SYNOPSIS
Son of the Macho Dancer is a coming-of-age film about Inno, a boy who wants to escape the abuse of his father Pol, a retired stripper addicted to drugs. One day, Tere, Inno’s mother, forces him to work in a male strip club, but just when he starts working, Tere abandons her son and her husband. At the club, Inno meets Bambi, an ex-prostitute who organizes private parties to sexually satisfy the rich. Bambi invites Inno to join these parties, where he meets Jun Mallari, a wealthy gay businessman. Inno seduces Jun, attracted by the life of comfort he offers, becoming his plaything and abandoning his father. Kyle, a handsome 19-year-old who seems jealous of Inno for being another of Jun’s toys, warns him to stay away from Jun before it’s too late. But Inno turns a deaf ear and ends up in a world even more violent than the one he escaped from.
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY
Multi-award-winning Filipino director Joel C. Lamangan studied film and theater in the Philippines and abroad. He was an actor and director for theater and television, until he started acting for film and was able to make his directorial debut in 1991 with Darna. Among his most notable films are: The Flor Contemplacion Story (1995), for which he won the Golden Pyramid Award at the Cairo Film Festival in 1995 and Nora Aunor took home the Best Actress Award; Pusong Mamon (1998), Deathrow (2000), Hubog (2001), Huling Birhen sa Lupa (2003), Blue Moon (2006) and Deadline (2011). In 2014, her feature film Hustisya won the Best Actress Award and the Netpac at the Philippine independent film festival Cinemalaya. It was also screened at the Toronto festival and competed at the Warsaw and Nantes festivals. With Bhoy Intsik (2017) he won the special jury prize at the Porto festival. Rainbow’s Sunset won nine awards at the 2018 Manila festival, in addition to the special jury prize and best actor award for Eddie Garcia and Tony Mabesa at the 2019 Houston festival.
VIEW ALL FILMS BY COUNTRY

180º Rule

18Khz

1990

A Balance

A Leave (휴가)

A Love Unknown

A New Day

A’HR

Abhijan (THE EXPEDITION)

Along the Sea

Anima

APARAJITO (THE INVINCIBLE)

Apur sansar (the world of apu)

Aranyer din ratri (Days and nights in the forest)

Around The Table

Bandar Band

Bedridden

Better Days (少年的你)

Bipolar

Borderlands

Bridge

Café By the Highway

Camino Skies

Can Neither Stay Here, Nor Journey Beyond

Captive (Nazarband)

Cartas de Akyab

Charulata (Charulata or the lonely wife)

Children of the Night

Cinema Shahre Gheseh

COLD

Come Here

Crossroads (Tapguan)

Debris of Desire

Devi (The goddess)

Don’t Go Too Far (멀리가지마라)

Drifting (濁水漂流)

Drive My Car

Drown (Shena-ye Parvaneh)

Drowning In Holy Water

El Barro de la Revolución

Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt)

Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots

Far Frontiers

Faraway My Shadow Wandered

Fire on the Plain

Friends and Strangers

Ganashatru (An enemy of the people)

Ghare-Baire (Bimala’s world)

God on the Balcony

GOOPY GYNE BAGHA BYNE (GOOPY AND BAGHA’S ADVENTURES)

H is For Happiness

Hail, Driver

Hand Rolled Cigarette (手捲煙)

I am Vasantrao

I Don’t Fire Myself (나는 나를 해고하지 않는다)

I Met A Girl

In the Wake

Jalsaghar (The music room)

Jeux de Plage

Josée (조제)

Just 1 Day (給我1天)

Keep Rolling (好好拍電影)

Lato Kosero

Life in 24 Frames

Lockdown

Los mensajes ocultos de Ganga

Love, Life and Goldfish

Mahanagar (One Night in Kathmandu)

Mahanagar (The Big City)

Malu

My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan

Nayak (The Hero)

Not Today

On Your Mom, Get, Set, Go! / Zero to Hero (媽媽的神奇小子)

One More Rainbow (Isa Pang Bahagari)

One Second Champion (秒拳王)

Our Midnight (아워 미드나잇)

Paranoia

Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road)

Pratidwandi (The Adversary)

Ready O/R Knot (不日成婚)

Restart

Rosemary’s Way

Running to the Sky

Sehar

Shakha Proshakha (Branches of the tree)

Shatranj Ke Khilari (The chess players)

Son of the Macho Dancer (Anak ng macho dancer)

Stars Await Us

Stoma (造口人)

Streamline

The Australian Dream

The Badger

The Blue Girl (Dokhtar-e Abi)

The Dogs Didn’t Sleep Last Night (Sag-ha Dishab Na-khabidand)

The Flute

The Forbidden Strings

The Fourth Round (Rand-e Chaharom)

The Great Indian Kitchen

The Inheritance (Mord-e Khor)

The Lake

The Reversed Path (Masir-e Makus)

The Road to Eden

The Single Tumbler

The Slaughterhouse (Koshtargah)

The Woman

The Women

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

Time (殺出個黃昏)

Ulbolsyn

Unboxing Girl (평평남녀)

Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

Walnut Tree

Water Boy

What We Left Unfinished

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Gūzen to Sōzo)

Where is Pinki?

Wind

Wu Hai

Yellow Cat
