

My Partner
Two high school boys from different social worlds experience romantic feelings for each other. Edmar, a high-performing Filipino student, and Pili, a Native Hawaiian student-athlete, learn that navigating self-growth and teenage love in Hawaiʻi is as complicated as their understanding and love for Hawaiʻi and it’s ever-changing cultural landscape.
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4.9/10
9 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $250K
- Box office
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- Language
- Tagalog
- high school
- hawaii
- teenage crush
- lgbt
- lgbt teen
- gay romance
- gay theme
- high school romance
- filipino
- swear
Top billed cast


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Produced in
United States of America
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Availability for India. Provided by JustWatch through the TMDB API.
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Dekkoo
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereLos Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival7 May 2023
Hong KongHK
- PremiereHKLGFF8 Sept 2024
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My Partner was released on 7 May 2023.
Audience reviews
2- C6/10
CinemaSerf
11/29/2025
There’s a bit of rivalry between the indigenous young men of Hawai’i and those of Philipino heritage whom they think cavalier about the natural resources of their pristine islands. That hostility extends into school where “Pili” (Kaipo Dudoit) and his older lads like to pick on “Edmar” (Jayson Munoz) and his pals. Things look set to come to an head when a teacher decides to pair these two on a project to select and p…
- K7/10
kinrich30
8/29/2026
This was the typical enemies-to-lovers trope, but set against a Hawaiian backdrop with half of the cast being from the Philippines. The good, the story flowed smoothly and the romance developed casually over the course of the story and it flowed through to the end when everything finally came together in a peaceful way and no one seemed to question it. The problem I had is that the story is set in their junior year…
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