He won the award for Best Director for his film Kinatay at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.
Masahista (English Title: The Masseur) is a 2005 Filipino film written and directed by Brillante Mendoza.
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Other films exploring the same theme are Lino Brocka's Macho Dancer (1988) and Brillante Mendoza's Masahista (The Masseur, 2005).
In the 2007 Jeonju International Film Festival held in Korea it won the critic's prize for the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) which was received by director Brillante Mendoza.