Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
FILIPIÑANA
Synopsis
Tee girl Isabel feels strangely drawn to Dr. Palanca, the president of the country club where she works. After piecing together a violent picture of what lies beneath the club’s pristine surface, she realizes that what began as an innocent infatuation is actually rooted in a sinister shared history.
Synopsis
Tee girl Isabel feels strangely drawn to Dr. Palanca, the president of the country club where she works. After piecing together a violent picture of what lies beneath the club’s pristine surface, she realizes that what began as an innocent infatuation is actually rooted in a sinister shared history.
Our take
Turning the private golf course—a symbol of exclusive luxury—into an emblem of evil, Rafael Manuel’s audacious satire takes a powerful swing at the Filipino elites. Lacing its postcard-perfect compositions with gnawing class tension, Filipiñana dares to unlatch the Pandora’s box of societal ills.