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Filipiñana
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Sat 24 Oct 6:15 PM
Palace Nova Eastend: Cinema 4
General Admission
Unclassified 18+
100 MinsAn exclusive Manila golf club is a world unto itself, its manicured greens and immaculate facilities maintained by an army of workers for the pleasure of its wealthy members. Among them is 17-year-old Isabel, whose fascination with the club’s powerful president draws her beyond the boundaries of her lowly position and deeper into a social order governed by class, gender and privilege. Rafael Manuel renders this enclosed world with the saturated artificiality of a vintage resort postcard, while workers move through its grounds in surreal, precisely choreographed patterns. As Isabel ventures further, the beauty and order of the club take on a more sinister dimension, revealing histories and hierarchies that extend far beyond its gates. With its artfully composed images and slyly unsettling shifts in tone, Filipiñana transforms a playground for the wealthy into a microcosm of the Philippines itself.