Director Nigel Santos’s latest full-length feature, Open Endings, is Four queer women in their 30s who are exes-turned-best-friends navigate adulthood, love, friendship, chosen families, and everything in between.
The story follows Hannah, Charlie, Kit, and Mihan, four queer women in their early 30s who share a deeply entangled history: first girl crush, first girlfriend, first kiss, first love, great love, heartbreaks, one-night stands, even ghosting. The romance may have ended, but the friendship held strong. When Hannah is pulled into deep grief, the others show up without hesitation. Through breakups, family drama, and personal struggles, they keep choosing one another. Just when life starts to feel stable, Hannah is faced with a decision that changes everything without warning. Can their friendship carry the weight of what’s next? Will old feelings resurface?
Open Endings is tender, funny, a little unhinged, and full of yearning. It’s a story about holding on to the people who’ve seen you through every version of yourself, and stayed.
Open Endings asks the crucial question: Can a friendship built on the remnants of romance withstand a radical change? Will the old feelings resurface and finally break what the heartbreaks forged? As the screen fades to black, the women’s collective future is left suspended—a perfect, yearning, and beautifully uncertain open ending.
Starring Janella Salvador, Klea Pineda, Leanne Mamonong, and Jasmine Curtis-Smith, this 110-minute Drama/Romance/LGBTQIA+ film, with a screenplay by Keavy Eunice Vicente, dives deep into the deeply entangled lives of four queer women in their early 30s. Maria Elena Catajan
