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Ma' Rosa dir Brillante Mendoza

Mama Rosa / Ma’Rosa reż. Brillante Mendoza Filipiny Multikino 2: Sunday, 09 Oct 11:00 Multikino 2: Monday, 10 Oct 16:00 Multikino 1: Saturday, 15 Oct 21:00 Warsaw Film Festival: Special Screening MA' ROSA, A Brillante Mendoza film (Jaclyn Jose is Cannes Film Festival 2016 Best Actress) Genre: Drama Plot Outline: ROSA, owns a small community convenience store connected to their home in the slums of Metropolitan Manila. Together with her husband, NESTOR, they use their convenience store as cover-up for selling illegal narcotic, Methamphetamines. Their fate changes one Saturday night when their neighbor BONG-BONG, who works as a fly-by-night parking attendant, begs her to sell him a small pack of Methamphetamine without knowing that it’s a ploy for a pending buy-bust operation leading to Rosa and Nestor’s warrantless arrest by a police team. Awards: Cannes Film Festival 2016 Best Actress Starring Jaclyn Jose, Andi Guck-Eigenmann, Julio

Daughters of the Three Tailed Banner (2016)

Córki Bangsamoro / Daughters of the Three Tailed Banner / Mga Bai Nu Sambolayang Mawalaw Warsaw Film Festival 2016: International Competition Multikino 3: Monday, 10 Oct 21:30 Multikino 2: Tuesday, 11 Oct 16:00 Multikino 2: Wednesday, 12 Oct 11:00 This film by Mindanao filmmaker Gutierrez Mangansakan, Daughters of the Three-Tailed Banner is the first chapter to a two-part film called moro2mrw , where stories happen on the day before the installation of a new Bangsamoro government. The first book tells two stories of Muslim women: one that happens in a provincial abode and one that mostly occurs in the confines of a luxurious hotel in the city. In the story a family is in ruins after the last male member dies. To salvage their future, the matriarch Kadiguia decides to look for a suitable husband for the eligible Tonina to continue the line of martyrs and warriors. Many miles away in the city, Aida secretly works in a hotel after falling victim to an illegal recrui