Script : Lav Diaz
Photographer : Larry Manda
Editing : Lav Diaz
Sound : Hugo Leitão, Emmanuel Croset, Xavier Thieulin
Actors : John Lloyd Cruz, Ronnie Lazaro, Don Melvin Boongaling, Shamaine Buencamino, Monica Calle, Hazel Orencio, Danilo Ledesma
Production : EpicMedia Productions Inc, Films Boutique, Rosa Filmes, Arte France Cinéma
Distributor :
Epicentre Films
55 rue de la Mare
75 020 Paris
tél : 01 43 49 03 03
[email protected]
Year : 2022
Screening : 2023
DCP, b&w, 187 mn, OV tagalog FRSUB
Selected in Venice, Goa, Seville, Gand in 2022
Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators in the Philippines, finds himself in a deep moral dilemma: he witnesses the responsibility of the police force in the deadly anti-drug campaign, led by the country's president, Rodrigo Duterte. Right after his election as the Philippines' president in 2016, he launches his so-called "war against drugs", shocking the world by the brutality and the human rights’ violations that ensue from it. The unlawful extrajudicial killings imputed to drug have become endemic and most of the murders are police-related. These atrocities are corroding Lieutenant Papauran both physically and spiritually. He suffers from a severe psoriasis, a skin disease resulting from insidious anxiety. He is haunted by a gloomy past. He goes back to his home town where he meets again with the friend he had robbed a bank with in the past. Thirty years later, the friend who has just gotten out of jail sets on a revenge spree against his former partner in crime.
