YOUTH FOR KATARUNGAN

Film Catalogue

2022

Feature Topics

Martial Law and Dictatorship
Gender Equality and Justice
Civil Political Rights
Marginalized and Minoritized
Environment and the Planet

Documentaries
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Bullet-Laced Dreams

Bullet-Laced Dreams follows the Lumad children in Mindanao as they escape from military rule due to the incessant armed conflicts between the government & communist rebels.

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Delikado

DELIKADO follows environmental defenders Bobby and Tata of the Palawan NGO Network Inc and former El Nido mayor Nieves. They risk their lives in David versus Goliath-style struggles, stopping politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ “last ecological frontier”.

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Alunsina

A documentary that follows the struggles of children and families in an urban settlement severely affected by Rodrigo Duterte’s War on Drugs.

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Aswang

Aswang follows people whose fates entwine with the growing violence during two years of killings in Manila.

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The Kingmaker

Centered on the indomitable character of Imelda Marcos, The Kingmaker examines, with intimate access, the Marcos family’s improbable return to power in the Philippines.

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11,103

A documentary featuring survivor stories of state-sponsored violence during the martial law years of dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

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Full Length Films
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Brutal

After killing her husband and his friends, a woman goes into post-traumatic shock and withdraws from any form of communication. A feminist journalist becomes interested in the case and resolves to unravel the truth behind the murders.

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Liway

The true story of a young mother who uses story-telling to protect her child from the reality of growing up in prison and the difficult life she endured.

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Moral

The film traces the lives four women through their seemingly desperate but also interwoven experiences and in their attempts to resolve their individual problems are mirrored the different faces of the woman in our society today.

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Isang Harding Papel

Isang Harding Papel tells the story of what it was like during the time of Martial Law, where blind obedience was discipline, and discipline meant progress.

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Respeto

An aspiring young rapper strikes up an unexpected friendship with an elderly bookstore owner who has a dark past of his own.

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Short Films

Skylab

The year is 1979, the Skylab satellite is falling to Earth. In the days leading up to the crash, two troubled boys wait for doomsday, only to realize that darker forces are threatening them.

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Tiempo Suerte

9 year-old Gingging is upset when she wakes up realizing that her older brother has already left without waking her up and bringing her to work.

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River of Tears and Rage

Women’s rights activist Reina Mae Nasino was a month into her pregnancy when arrested by Manila’s police on suspected trumped-up charges.

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Gawad Alternatibo

Palengke Day

Palengke Day recounts experiences within the Baguio Public Market during the COVID-19 pandemic and the country’s Community Quarantine.

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Gawad Alternatibo

Lingkis

LINGKIS (2021) mixes mythology, animation, and documentary to tell the story of a country plunged into
darkness by a mythological serpent, whose only hope is the light people bring to fight against it.

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Gawad Alternatibo

Si Biboy Kag Ang Sigbin sa Siudad

Biboy chases after a sigbin, a creature that took his father away. During his search he is met with warnings, which instead of discouraging him, only pushes him to probe further.

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Gawad Alternatibo

Ang Amomonggo sa Aton

In 1985 during the Marcos Dictatorship in the Philippines, the Magbuelas family and their community of dumaan farmers in Negros Island face a brutal threat from the mythical creature called the Amomonggo.

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Special Screenings

Active Vista X Probe Media: Revisiting History

In this curated playlist by Probe Archives, we give you access to documentaries released from 1988 to 2004. It covers almost 20 years of authoritarian influence and controversy, even after the protracted and bloody rule of former Philippine president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

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IN FOCUS: Red Brothers

Active Vista features films from RAYMOND and JON RED, filmmakers who have produced some of the most compelling and eye-opening films of recent times.

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About Us

Active Vista is a learning center established by DAKILA to support its mission of empowering citizens to become agents of social change. It organizes activities geared towards the development of the innate value of arts, media and popular culture as an educational medium to shape critical thought, influence culture, and foster social consciousness and action.

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