Some Nights I Feel Like Walking (2025)

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• Filmed in: Manila and 1 more

Some Nights I Feel Like Walking is a 2024 independent road drama film written and directed Petersen Vargas. It stars Miguel Odron, Jomari Angeles, Argel Saycon, Tommy Alejandrino and Gold Aceron. The film portrays the journey of a group of street hustlers in Manila who fulfills a friend's dying wish to be brought to his hometown.

Production

Some Nights I Feel Like Walking is based on the director's own youth experience in Manila and his search for identity. In an interview, Vargas describes his "rigid household" that includes military officers as a reference for creating the film. He also wanted to make a film about a queer boy who moved from the provinces to Manila and its influence on his identity.

Vargas began writing the film in 2017. The film, which was planned as a road movie with "youths on the margins of society", was still in pre-production by 2019. At that year, it was selected for Locarno Film Festival's Open Doors Hub, which is a mentoring and distributor networking program, and received a fund of US$150,000 (around ₱768,000 in 2019) from the Southeast Asian Fiction Film Lab Prize.

Production began in 2022. The production initially planned to cast street hustlers. However, they shifted to interviewing around 400 young people in Zoom to screen casting due to the pandemic. Composers Alyana and Moe Cabral, who worked on the film's music, incorporated Regine Velasquez's "Dadalhin" in the film. They also decided to include budots "[to cultivate] the feeling of being in Manila" and for the genre's being "local".

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