Winner of the Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2010 ReelWorld International Film Festival Off World is an ethereal and eye-opening portrait of one of the Philippines' most notorious slums. Lucky, a Filipino adoptee, makes the emotionally laden journey from his home in Toronto to the Philippines to discover his birthplace: Smokey Mountain. Once known as the Kingdom of Tondo, Smokey Mountain is now a vast urban slum surrounding a mountain of garbage, named for the methane gases that visibly leak from refuse accumulated over the course of more than half a century. Guided by Julia, a worker at a local NGO, Lucky discovers he has a gay, genderqueer brother and grapples not only with the glaring poverty, but with the ramifications of queer life in the Philippines. In order to define himself and connect with his roots, Lucky immerses himself in the culture of Smokey Mountain and his brother's life, uncovering still more tangible links to his past.