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Manila

Across Asia • 1h 30m

Directed by Adolfo B. Alix Jr., Raya L. Martin • Drama • With Piolo Pascual • 2009 • 90 minutes

Piolo Pascual portrays two characters in this fractured tale of darkness and light, exposing the seedy underbelly of the city that surrounds him.

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cannes film festival, drama, drama_genre, manila, narrative, narrative_genre, ovid, philippines, slum, tagalog, violence

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