VERSUS
Dir: Ralston G. Jover 99 min | 2020 | Philippines | Tagalog | Narrative Feature | In Competition
Leo nee Lea (Gabby Eigenmann), a Filipino transgender comes home for the first time after years of working and living in Australia. She anxiously decides to meet her children at the airport. But her ex-wife Baby (Sunshine Dizon) raises hell upon finding about it. Tension escalates and they end up in a custody battle over their children in court. In the court the judge considers the ground of homosexuality as a disadvantage for Leo/Lea to keep her children. Versus is an emotional film about a transgender woman fights for her right to be accepted as a woman, and her right to be the custodial mother to her biological children.
Dir: Ralston G. Jover 99 min | 2020 | Philippines | Tagalog | Narrative Feature | In Competition
Leo nee Lea (Gabby Eigenmann), a Filipino transgender comes home for the first time after years of working and living in Australia. She anxiously decides to meet her children at the airport. But her ex-wife Baby (Sunshine Dizon) raises hell upon finding about it. Tension escalates and they end up in a custody battle over their children in court. In the court the judge considers the ground of homosexuality as a disadvantage for Leo/Lea to keep her children. Versus is an emotional film about a transgender woman fights for her right to be accepted as a woman, and her right to be the custodial mother to her biological children.