A teenage boy trails a group of young hustlers, thinking one of them may be his anonymous hook-up for the night. But as he makes his way across the city, the hustlers inexplicably appear as dead bodies strewn along the pavement.
How to Die Young in Manila
Petersen Vargas
2020
Philippines
12 min
The Horse Hospital
17 September
Friday
8:50pm
Petersen Vargas
Petersen Vargas is a director whose films explore Filipino youth through a queer and regional lens. His feature debut 2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten (2016) won the Audience Award at Torino LGBTQI Film Festival, and his latest short film How to Die Young in Manila (2020) premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and has screened in festivals internationally.