Die Beautiful (2016)

Directed by

Jun Lana

Genre

LGBTQ-related film

Country

Philippines

Runtime

2h

Rated

R-13

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

After a trans woman wins a beauty pageant and dies suddenly, her friends hold a wake where they transform her into different personas each night to prevent her father from burying her as a man. The film flashes back to show her life, struggles, and triumphs as a Filipina transgender woman.

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What happens

Die Beautiful is a Filipino LGBT comedy-drama film co-produced and directed by Jun Robles Lana and written by Rody Vera from Lana's story concept. It stars Paolo Ballesteros as Trisha, a trans woman who suddenly died after she was crowned winner of a gay beauty pageant, and her friends, who transform her into a different person on each night of her wake in a different location as a way to avoid being buried as a man by her father. It also tackles her whole life when she felt and dealt with problems and successes in living as a Filipina transgender, as well as controversy in her family. Produced by Octobertrain Films and The IdeaFirst Company and distributed by Regal Entertainment, the film premiered in Tokyo, Japan, on October 27, 2016, as a competing entry for the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival. It received a domestic theatrical release on December 25, as an official entry to the 42nd Metro Manila Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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