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2018



Death and Song in the Time of Digong

Social Issue / Politics

Ditsi CAROLINO

  • Philippines
  • 90min

Synopsis

A man who admits to killing people in the past runs for President. He vows to kill all drug addicts in his campaign and wins. Shortly after, thousands of dead bodies turn up in the middle of the night – bloodied, handcuffed, tortured.

 

A Photojournalist is witness to this macabre unfolding. His photographs over the last 19 months tell the real story on the ground.

 

The Bishop of the diocese where most of the bodies are dumped, leads the faithful in condemning the killings. But can he win against the hugely popular President?

 

The Mother of one of the victims is grief-stricken. Her teenage son was killed by men with masked faces. She seeks justice for her son but the police she runs to are the very same suspects in the killing.

 

A Singer who helped topple the dictator Marcos sings in protest rallies to win the hearts and minds of millennials, too young to remember life under a dictator.
The Photojournalist, the Bishop, the Mother and the Singer do everything they can to stop the killing President. But the President seems unstoppable.

 

Until one day, an Assassin surfaces. One of the President¡¯s assassin turns whistleblower and tells all.

Director

  • Ditsi CAROLINO

    Ditsi CAROLINO is a documentary director based in Manila. She studied Sociology at the University of the Philippines and documentary filmmaking at the National Film and Television School in the UK on a Chevening Scholarship. Riles: Life on the Tracks an intimate portrait of a couple who live in the slums of Manila, is her graduation film. Riles screened at IDFA, HotDocs, won the Royal Television Award in the UK and was acquired for broadcast by BBC Storyville in 2003. Bunso (The Youngest) 2004, her film about kids in jail won Best Director at the One World Film Festival in Prague, the Youth Jury Prize at the Human Rights Film Festival in Nuremberg and the Grand Prize at the EBS Doc Film Festival in Seoul. This film was used by child rights advocates to help pass the juvenile justice bill in the Philippines in 2007.  Ditsi continues to make creative docs on social justice stories in the Philippines.

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