Filipiñana
| Movie | |
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| German title | Filipiñana |
| Original title | Filipiñana |
| Country of production | Philippines , UK |
| original language | Filipino , English |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 24 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rafael Manuel |
| script | Rafael Manuel |
| production | Naomi Pacifique, Kyle Nieva, Kiko Meily, Rafael Manuel |
| camera | Xenia Patricia |
| cut | Rafael Manuel |
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Filipiñana is a Filipino - British feature film under the direction of Rafael Manuel from the year 2020 . Exploitation and exclusion in the hierarchical structures of Filipino society are shown using the example of a golf club . The short film celebrated on 25 February 2020 to the Berlinale world premiere and ran there in the section Berlinale Shorts . He won the Jury's Silver Bear Prize (short film) .
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Isabel, a girl from the Ilocos region , is new as a caddy . At the beginning of the film she lies on the sand and sings, but her strict boss, the manager Susan, calls out to her: “Time to work!” And rebukes her for her behavior. Micah is the top caddy at this golf club. The tea girls fish balls out of the bushes and from the pools overgrown with water lilies, clean and sort them. Isabel and her colleagues sit on low stools in the dust and lay the balls out for the golfers while they swing their clubs just past their faces. They also massage the golfers' legs, but there is no conversation. Once, when Isabel is laying the balls for a golfer, she asks about Charlie, the most popular caddy on the course, but Isabel cannot provide any information. A little later a young woman asks Isabel for a fire and asks her where she is from; it turns out that person is Charlie. A boy also wants to be a caddy on this golf course, which so far only seems to have girls. In the midday heat they sleep in the cloakroom, the boy is resting outside on a chair, Isabel is also outside at the table. Isabel has yet to learn the rules, but she is already looking for loopholes in the strict rules. It is "the quiet sand in the gears of lush green". So she nibbles from the dessert buffet that has been set up for the golfers and hears that people have already been fired for minor offenses. She sits down at a table where the golfers have left plates with leftovers and smokes. She hears music coming out of her boss's window and quietly opens the door. In the evening she goes to the disco and sings karaoke there . When she went back to work the next day, she hums the song to herself.
Filipiñana uses the golf club as a microcosm in which exploitation and exclusion can be seen in the hierarchical structures of Filipino society. The film focuses on the power imbalance between women in this delimited social space. In the film, complex social imbalances are approached, fanned out and reduced to basic human truths in images and scenes. In this way, the topic is universalized and also accessible to people of other classes, races or a different gender.
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The director was Rafael Manuel , who also designed the film. Xenia Patricia was the camerawoman . The film was shot in May 2019 on various golf courses and in country clubs in the Philippines. Most of the recordings were made at the Alabang Country Club in Muntinlupa , Metro Manila and the Hacienda Luisita Golf and Country Club in Tarlac , Pampanga .
Producers were Naomi Pacifique, Kyle Nieva, Kiko Meily and Rafael Manuel. The production was at the London Film School , London . Idle Eyes , London, Screen Asia , Manila , and Simple Truth , Manila, were co-production companies.
A crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.com in summer 2019 raised £ 9,530 for the post-production of the film.
The film premiered on February 25, 2020 the Berlin world premiere and ran there in the section Berlinale Shorts . He won the Jury's Silver Bear Prize (short film) .
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Web links
- Profile with a film clip at berlinale.de
- Filipiñana in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Filipiñana. Retrieved March 14, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e Filipiñana. Retrieved March 14, 2020 .
- ↑ International Short Film Jury 2020. Accessed on March 14, 2020 .