FILIPIÑANA
99 MINUTES | DRAMA | 2026
Synopsis
At a pristine resort on the outskirts of Manila, 17-year-old tee-girl Isabel tries to return a mislaid golf club to Dr. Palanca, the club president, discovering sinister revelations about her workplace, its elite members, and her own past.
Credits
DIRECTED BY: Rafael Manuel (feature debut)
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Jia Zhang-Ke, Farhana Bhula, Jossette C. Atayde, Maria Sophia Atayde-Marudo, Anthony C. Isais, Grace Mariel M. Isais, Sebastian Raeuber and Francine Raeuber
PRODUCERS: Film4 (POOR THINGS, THE ZONE OF INTEREST), Pōtocol (INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL), Epicmedia (VIET AND NAM, DIRECTORS FACTORY PHILIPPINES, IN MY MOTHER’S SKIN), Alex Polunin
PRESS QUOTES
“An invigorating dose of arch formalism in a sea of mainstream sincerity...In Filipiñana, the angle of a golf club can evoke suspense, a piece of fruit on the ground can feel like a tragedy, and a casual glance can take your breath away…
Vulture
"A darkly comic, visually inventive...sits somewhere between Michael Haneke and David Lynch...its images remain embedded in the memory."
The Hollywood Reporter
"A striking feature debut where individual frames can speak to centuries…"
The Moveable Fest
“Filipiñana slyly positions globalism as an act of forgetting unto itself.”
Indiewire