#filipino cinema
2015 Cannes Classics poster for INSIANG (Lino Brocka, Philippines, 1976)
Designer: Dark Star
Poster source: CineMaterial
Restored by Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation. Watch it on the Criterion Channel.
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Aswang(Alyx Ayn Arumpac, 2019)
When Rodrigo Duterte is voted president of the Philippines, he sets in motion a machinery of death to execute suspected drug users and street peddlers. Aswang follows a group of people whose lives get caught up with the growing violence during two years of killings in Manila.
“I was feeling everything very raw. For instance, I was filming in a crime scene and then I was filming with a lot of TV people, and there was this woman who I suddenly heard, because I was the only one monitoring sound, I suddenly heard a woman praying very low. And I looked for this woman and I found her and she was praying that it was not her daughter that was dead on the street. Its not just understanding that she was praying but also understanding this entire spirituality, this entire culture that surrounds this story.”
-Alyx Ayn Arumpac, Docs in Orbit
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