Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Traveling with Her
  • Two Women
  • Sally
  • Keep Coming Back
  • Eros
  • Cactus Pears
  • According to Otto
  • #1 Happy Family USA
  • Newborn
  • Where the Wind Comes From
  • Love Bites
  • Four Seasons (The)
  • Fear Street: Prom Queen
  • Brooklyn Butcher (The)
  • Étoile
  • Midnight in Phoenix
  • Grotesquerie
  • Sudden Outbursts of Emotions
  • Idyllic
  • Spermageddon
  • La Joia: Bad Gyal
  • Sobre las olas
  • Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines
  • Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance
  • Pee-wee as Himself
  • Pwede G, pwede B
  • Alien: Romulus
  • Male Gaze: Reality Bites (The)
  • Mariliendre
  • Things Like This
  • Last First Time (The)
  • Sylvia Robyn
  • Sorry, Baby
  • Reset
  • Ramón y Ramón
  • President's Wife (The)
  • Inside
  • Ten Pound Poms
  • Culinary Uprising: The Story of Bloodroot (A)
  • Fuori

Miguel/Michelle

Country: Philippines, Language: Tagalog, 107 mins

  • Director: Gil Portes
  • Writer: Ricardo Lee; Gil Portes
  • Producer: Roberto Castro Jr.; Jose Cura

CGiii Comment

Miguel, a young man from Quezon province, leaves the Philippines for the U.S. After seven years, he returns home, and his family discovers he has had a sex change operation and is now Michelle. She declares she will stay until her family accepts her. This proves iffy: mom is embarrassed by the scandal; dad is angry and rejecting, feeling his own manhood undermined. In a sub-plot, M/M's best friend Julio, whom M/M knows is gay, announces his engagement to Sonja. Michelle tries to talk Julio out of the marriage. Julio and Sonja's decisions, Michelle's changing relationship with her tatay, and her own need to confront anew the nature of her sexuality complete the film.


Trailer...

Cast & Characters

Romnick Sarmenta as Miguel / Michelle de la Cruz;
Gloria Diaz as Tinang;
Ray Ventura as Nano;
Cris Villanueva as Julio;
Mylene Dizon as Sonia;
Grandong Cervantes as Fr. Rav