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'Dreamboi' gets second X rating from MTRCB

The poster for "Dreamboi", an official entry to the inaugural CineSilip Film Festival. (Courtesy: Rodina Singh/Instagram)

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/176103079902475db79dbb464ed95ace86b62d066e34eab20dd5f14f33d57229512d34f80153c.webp" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">The poster for &quot;Dreamboi,&quot; an official entry to the first CineSilip film festival. (Courtesy: Rodina Singh/Instagram)</span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>MANILA<strong> (UPDATE)</strong> — The trans body horror flick &quot;Dreamboi&quot; will screen on time after all, after it got an R-18 rating from the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) on Tuesday.</p><p>This marked the end of the film&#x27;s struggles to get a green light for screening from the ratings board, which slapped the film with an X rating during its first two reviews.</p><p>On Monday, director Rodina Singh was devastated after finding out that the film is the only one among the CineSilip entries that was not approved for public exhibition.</p><p>&quot;We applied for a re-rating today, and all entries are R-18 except &#x27;Dreamboi&#x27;. F***, hindi ko alam,&quot; she said in a quick X Space on October 20.</p><p>In issuing the X rating, the MTRCB noted that &quot;while it offers important representation and commentary, its prolonged sexually explicit scenes&quot; warrant the disapproval for showing the film in cinemas.</p><p>In defense of her film, Singh had earlier argued that the film is &quot;not pornography.&quot;</p><p>&quot;It is a story about being seen, about the pain and beauty of longing when the world tells you you’re not allowed to want,&quot; she wrote in a statement on Friday, October 17.</p><div><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkislaptalla%2Fposts%2Fpfbid08v7gYUp5VM5f2Hi4duduJrZZoT1VdpbHxmeugdhykqM5nZ5NTJfUPoJmyx9BdDoVl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500" width="500" height="732" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><strong></strong></div><p>&quot;Dreamboi&quot; follows the story of Diwa, a trans woman who becomes obsessed with audio porn after eavesdropping on a stranger having sex. It intensifies after she finds out that that stranger is the man behind the voice of her favorite audio porn actor.</p><p>Jallorina, who plays Diwa, expressed frustration after the film initially got X-rated twice.</p><p>&quot;Ansakit. Ansakit. Anlala niyo. Ang sahol. Ang sahol sahol niyo,&quot; she <a href="https://x.com/ejjallorina/status/1980198162712408216">wrote</a> on X after the second X rating decision came out.</p><p>She even suggested to reshoot &quot;Dreamboi&quot; with a cisgender male character for it to be greenlit for exhibition.</p><p>Aside from Jallorina, also starring in the film are sexy actress Jenn Rosa and actor Tony Labrusca, who plays the titular character.</p><p>The inaugural CineSilip film festival features seven bold and daring films that aim to be the place for &quot;fearless storytelling.&quot; Entries will be shown in select Ayala Malls cinemas from October 22 to 28.</p><div><br/></div><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/showbiz/movies-series/2025/10/3/inaugural-cinesilip-film-festival-to-debut-with-7-daring-films-1100">Related story: Inaugural CineSilip film festival to debut with 7 daring films</a></div>

<p>The trans body horror film 'Dreamboi' has received an R-18 rating from the MTRCB after being X-rated twice for "prolonged sexually explicit scenes."</p>

The trans body horror film 'Dreamboi' has received an R-18 rating from the MTRCB after being X-rated twice for "prolonged sexually explicit scenes."

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'Dreamboi' gets green light from MTRCB after getting X-rated twice

Albert Josef Lirio,

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Published October 21, 2025 09:28 AM PHT

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Updated October 21, 2025 03:13 PM PHT

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