Binibining Detainee

Binibining Detainee

2018•14m

DocumentaryAnimation

A slice of the eccentric lives of Roca and Sammy, two members of the Gay Inmates Organization detained at the Pampanga Provincial Jail, intertwined with animated sequences of an inmate's incarceration story.

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UP Film Institute

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EN

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