Mendoza’s blending of documentary and fictional elements mostly works in this hard-hitting docu-drama about the survivors of the devastating Typhoon Haiyan.

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Mendoza’s latest doesn’t quite come together as he employs sketchy animation against his docu-realist style in an overdrawn child cancer drama with an allegorical intent that never hits any mark.   

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The war on drugs in the Philippines, made as a gripping genre piece by Brillante Mendoza in his usual docu-drama style.

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Mendoza continues to be one of Southeast Asia’s most important cinematic voices in this raw, organic and deeply affecting film on the devastation of drug dealing on a family.

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A raw, sexually-explicit if eye-opening film from one of Southeast Asia’s rising filmmakers.

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