This smart, endearing drama from the Philippines follows four queer women – exes turned best friends – as they navigate love, sex, chosen families, and everything in between. Hannah, Charlie, Kit, and Mihan have all had romantic relationships with each other in the past, but despite a shared history of cheating, ghosting, and heartbreak, the four exes have since been remarkably successful in maintaining a strong group friendship. But when Hannah takes an important life decision, it sets in motion a chain of events that threatens the women’s close bond. Featuring appealing performances from its four leads, Open Endings is a confident, self-aware film about loyalty, solidarity, and the liberating power of non-normative lifestyles.
Festival 2026
Open Endings (UK Premiere)
Philippines, 2025
Directed by
Nigel Santos
Nigel Santos
Running time
110 mins
110 mins
Tickets
23 May 2026, 2:50 PM
Past Event
BFI Southbank
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Director Bio
Nigel Santos is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and a Literature graduate of the University of Santo Tomas. She was a fellow at the Gawad Plaridel Masterclass in Scriptwriting with Ricky Lee (2015), the CinePanulat Screenwriting Lab with Jun Lana (2016), the Bahay Konsepto Filmmaking Workshop with Sigfried Barros-Sanchez, the 11th Rogelio Sicat National Writing Workshop (2018), and the UST National Writers Workshop (2018).
Her short film Dalaginding Na Si Isang (2019), starring Miel Espinosa, was a finalist at the CineMarya Women’s Short Film Festival and later screened both locally and internationally, earning two nominations at the 37th Star Awards for Movies. Her debut feature, Yours Truly, Shirley (2019), starring Regine Velasquez-Alcasid, premiered at the Cinema One Originals Film Festival.
Open Endings is her second full-length feature and her first Cinemalaya film. Continuing her exploration of women’s stories, the film focuses on inner lives, relationships, and the choices that define them.
