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Completed - FILIPINO, ENGLISH - Drama - 120 minutes

Year of production : 2011

Director(s) : Brillante MENDOZA
Cast : Isabelle HUPPERT, Katherine MULVILLE, Marc ZANETTA, Maria Isabel LOPEZ, Rustica Carpio CARPIO

Producer(s) : Didier COSTET (Swift Productions)

Synopsis

Thérèse Bourgoine is a French national who is a volunteer humanitarian-social worker with a nongovernment organization on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. While transporting supplies to the organization base in Puerto Princesa (the capital of Palawan), she and her fellow volunteer, Filipina Soledad Carpio, are unwittingly kidnapped by an extremist group of Muslim men fighting for the independence of Muslim Mindanao, the "Abu Sayyaf Group" (ASG).

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Country(ies) : FRANCE

Festivals and Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2012 Competition
Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2012 Panorama


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