Dog Days At Lynden Co-Presents Bwakaw at the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival

October 20, 2013 - 1:00pm

DOG DAYS AT LYNDEN CO-PRESENTS BWAKAW
at the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival
Sunday, October 20, 2013 – 1 pm
UWM Union Theatre, located on the 2nd floor of the UWM Union , 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $9 general/$7 for students, seniors, and members of the UWM campus community; FREE to those who bring a picture of their animal companion to share. Tickets available online at the Festival website or at the UWM Union Theatre
(Jun Robles Lana, Philippines, in English and Tagalog with English subtitles, 110min., 2012)
A tender tale – at times wildly funny, at other times a tear-jerker – of loneliness and old age, and of one man and his dog. Rene is in his 70's, his only companion a once-stray dog named Bwakaw. Together they live on the outskirts of (a vividly portrayed) small village, lodgings now crowded with a coffin, his coffin, that he has already bought. (It was on sale and the funeral parlor storing it for him had to close.) Rene only came out in his 60's, and, now, nearing the end of a life not fully lived and trying to negotiate his regrets, he wonders about the isolation he helped sustain, the connections not risked. Mostly, he is cranky: barking at those who try to tolerate his cantankerous self, yelling at moto-taxi drivers, for instance, who charge extra for canines. But, stirred by new attractions, Rene hazards new relationships and a new idea of himself. Starring Eddie Garcia as Rene, in a performance already considered legendary, and Princess as the loyal, unquestioning Bwakaw.

Watch a trailer for Bwakaw here.