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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Trap (2015)
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Mindanao (2019)
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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Thousand Cuts, A (2020)
An urgent and frightening documentary for our troubled times as it tackles the problem of fake news and disinformation through the prism of politics, social media and journalism in The Philippines.
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Manila in the Claws of Light (1975)
In the pantheon of Southeast Asian cinema, this stands as one of the finest films – bold, bleak and uncompromising.
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Batch ’81 (1982)
An explicit allegory of Marcos’ problematic dictatorship through the story of a group of boys hoping to be initiated into a notorious college fraternity.
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Alpha: The Right to Kill (2018)
Continue reading →The war on drugs in the Philippines, made as a gripping genre piece by Brillante Mendoza in his usual docu-drama style.
Ma’ Rosa (2016)
Continue reading →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.
Service (2008)
Continue reading →A raw, sexually-explicit if eye-opening film from one of Southeast Asia’s rising filmmakers.
