Sunday April 29

9:30 pm

Gateway 4

The Philippines,2005,video, 120 min.
Ariztical Entertainment
FLORIDA PREMIERE

Directed by:
Ellen Ongkego-Marfil

Marta and Boyet are neighbors and friends. Though at first glance they are very different their similarities run deep. She's an advertising exec and he's a romance novelist. She is childless and he looks after a homeless youth. They both are chronically attracted to men who are emotionally unavailable. Marta's boyfriend, Steve, is unreliable, lying, and only wants sex. Boyet's boyfriend, Dom, is standoffish, mysterious and only comes around when he wants food or money for which he's willing to have sex. These men are like the stray cats outside their door that come for their treat only to leave again.

Written like a Filipino novella with genius sprinkles of magical realism Stray Cats, a delightfully painful yet heartwarming film underscores the fact that nothing is more complicated than matters of the heart and your friends will always be there to provide solace, escape from loneliness and love for each other. In Tagalog and English with English subtitles.

Career Synopsis

Ellen Ongkego-Marfil studied at the University of the Philippines. She directed the documentary Without a Trace, and the feature films Angel, Is your gender an issue?, Tears, Sweat and Laughter: A Story of Urban Poor Women, Stray Cats which she both directed and produced, won the Docker’s first feature award at the 30th annual San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival