This second feature film based on the popular television series features two true legal cases. The first is of a nanny accused of kidnapping the child in her care, and the second is about how a rich family tries to cover up the murder of a poor man.

Only son, Carlitos, suddenly finds himself the man of an all-female household when his father dies of a heart attack. He falls in love with an offbeat girl and is forced to make a choice between following his heart or risk losing the love of the family which has nurtured him all his life.

2012 film by Andoy Ranay

2021 film directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina

Years after her mother vanished, Sabina follows a mysterious clue to an uncharted island, where she confronts hidden dark secrets within her own family.

一名电视编剧返回家中照顾关系疏远的母亲，她们面对痛苦的秘密及其功能失调家庭的复杂问题，混乱也由此引发。

高尔夫球手伊莎贝尔对她工作的乡村俱乐部主席帕兰卡博士产生了一种莫名的吸引力。然而，当她逐渐拼凑出俱乐部光鲜外表下隐藏的暴力真相时，她意识到，最初看似单纯的迷恋，实际上却根植于一段险恶的共同过往。 导演拉斐尔·曼努埃尔（Rafael Manuel）首次执导长片，便展现出对超现实主义和令人不安的视觉语言的非凡掌控力，他将自己2020年获奖的同名短片改编成一部令人不寒而栗的作品。曼努埃尔深入挖掘菲律宾人的身份认同和民族意识，揭示出那些打破完美统一的、令人不安的碎片和裂痕。在摄影师泽尼亚·帕特里夏（Xenia Patricia）精心而精准的镜头运用下，曼努埃尔以风格化的色彩和手法，带领我们进入一个暴力和控制只需轻轻一挥手腕或轻轻一戴帽子就能实现的奇幻世界。影片以一种既平静又令人不安的方式，描绘了阶级差异和后殖民时代的权力结构，《菲律宾人》（Filipiñana）宣告了一位才华横溢的编剧兼导演的诞生，他毫不畏惧地直面自己国家的过去、现在和未来。

Philippine drama television series

2023 Filipino film

The Philippines, 1974: as Marcos’ oppressive regime becomes increasingly entrenched after he imposed martial law in 1972, Servando Monzon III, heir to his powerful clan’s hacienda and family business, refuses to capitulate to the dictator’s plans to control the country. In this adaptation of Ricardo Lee’s short story and screenplay Servando Magdamag, Lav Diaz, the unrelenting and incisive prober of Philippine history’s shadowy areas, offers a film of epic proportions. The aim, as unequivocally indicated by the title, is nothing less than to scrutinise Filipino violence and explore its roots from Spanish colonisation to the present day. Feudalism and power struggles are closely examined. Borne aloft by a remarkable cast – John Lloyd Cruz in the main role is a huge television and film star in the Philippines – this “sine novela”, according to the opening credits, mixes up the codes of the telenovela with Lav Diaz’ ostensibly very different filmmaking. The story unfolds of the mutual relationships of a profusion of characters over time, shot in the sumptuous black and white that is now the stuff of most of his movies. The filmmaker himself frames these magnificent shots that stretch out, sensuous experiences of living tableaux attentive to the bodies set in a place as well as to the languages used, to the inner movements and down-time. In this film that’s both a tragic saga set in the past and the tale of an “endless nightmare”, Diaz takes on a dual allegorical dimension – the figures of the philosopher and the blind man – and an informative one, like the revolutionary education meetings that pepper the story. This “tale of violence” is also an epic with very contemporary resonances, as the recent election to the presidency of another Marcos, a devoted son of the previous president, reminds us. (Nicolas Feodoroff) 源自：

20世纪90年代的马尼拉，电子游戏刚开始在街头巷尾盛行。在盛夏，米莫和她的好朋友保罗、吉利根、卡琦携手踏上了一趟自我发现的旅程，在打游戏的同时，他们需要面对很多问题：刚刚萌芽的爱情，信仰与亲情的取舍以及无法忽视的来自同辈间的压力。拉亚·马丁转型力作，90年代菲律宾可爱版《伴我同行》。真挚的情感、天马行空的想象力和青翠欲滴的色彩结合在一起，打造出如同电子游戏般活力四射、高潮迭起的青春故事。