Philippines
Germany
Philippines
Germany
Life in the slums of large Third World cities has been filmed in many different ways, but never before was a musical made about it. Khavn De La Cruz has been involved since 2003 with a unique celebration of the lives of losers in the ghettos of Manila, the Filipino capital. Characters like the teenager Tony D and his depraved friends. There's Lovely Loanshark, the gambling addict, a slum milker who's always screaming. Sgt. Pepper is a policeman and (to his great dismay) the father of only daughters and a gay son. There's Steve Banners, the old white pederast, and Ogo X, the misformed rapper. Mondomanila got support from HBF a long time ago and was finally made with mainly private money. The film shows a colourful, occasionally almost glamorous but also violent, rancid and perverse society in the gutter, in flashy, fast-cut scenes, with absurd dialogues and bizarre events. Khavn shakes up film styles to his heart's content: exuberant video clips, grubby film noir, hyper-realistic documentary and even slapstick - linked by an original story and rousing music.
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| Mondomanila | Canada |
| Mondomanila | Canada |
| Mondomanila | Philippines |
| Mondomanila | Poland |
| MondoManila | Italy |
| Mondomanila, ili: Kako sam sredio kosu nakon prilicno dugog putovanja | Croatia |
| Mondomanila, or: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey | United Kingdom |
| Mondomanila, or: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey | USA |
| Mondomanila, or: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey |
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Timothy Castillo | Tony D. |
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Jim Rocky Tangco | Dino Jr. |