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"HUSTISYA" in the 30th Warsaw Film Festival

Hustisya for the International Competition Category in the 30th Warsaw Film Festival Screenings: MULTIKINO 2 > Fri>10 October>18.30 MULTIKINO 3 > Mon>13 October>19.00 MULTIKINO 2 > Wed>15 October>16.00 MULTIKINO 3 > Thu>16 October>21.30 Justice / Sprawiedliwość / Hustisya dir. Joel Lamangan (Filipiny 2014), 120 mins. Biring lives in Manila and works for a human trafficking syndicate. In this city you can be either a victim or a victimizer. Biring will have to choose. Filipino film star Nora Aunor plays the lead role. Veteran Filipino director Joel Lamangan reunites with Nora Aunor, one of the country's biggest stars, for this gritty melodrama about corruption, criminality, and conflicted conscience in contemporary Manila. Biring (Aunor) is a domestic who works for Vivian (Rosanna Roces), an obscenely wealthy woman who has made her money by conning young women into applying for jobs as domestics offshore, where they are promptly