GROWING UP IS MESSY.

Set in early-2000s Manila, Different students from a high school cleaners group each deal with different pressures of being clean and pure while also discovering that the world is dirty and superficial to begin with.

Writer-director Ralston Jover's debut mixes live-action with photocopied frames and hand-colored textures to build a coming-of-age film that looks and feels like memory being rewritten — winning Best Film, Best Screenplay, and the Audience Choice Award at its QCinema world premiere. The highest-rated directorial debut and highest-rated comedy of 2021 on Letterboxd.

Languages: Tagalog. Subtitles available in English and Spanish.