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Completed - FILIPINO - Drama, Crime - 111 minutes

Log Line

A serial killer in Payatas leaves the bodies of young boys in the dump as two Jesuit priests try to solve the murders.
Based on the novel by F.H. Batacan

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2017 (Debut)
  • Busan 2017 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2017

Director(s) : Raya MARTIN
Cast : Sid LUCERO, Nonie BUENCAMINO, Carla HUMPHRIES

Producer(s) : Fernando ORTIGAS (Tuko Film Productions Inc.), Eduardo ROCHA (Buchi Boy Entertainment)

Synopsis

When the eviscerated body of a boy is found in the trash heaps of a thirteen-hectare dumpsite, nobody cares enough to notice. A news report might pick up the story, but when the victim is a nameless, faceless kid from a poor community- is anybody watching?

Father Gus Saenz (Nonie Buencamino), a forensic anthropologist and a Jesuit, finds himself caught up in the case as an alarming number of dead preteen boys turn up i the dumpsite. Father Gus and his colleague Father Jerome (Sid Lucero) have the help of journalist Joanna Bonifacio (Carla Humphries), as they investigate the murders through the cramped urban landscape of Manila.

Directed by Raya Martin and based on the award-winning by Filipino author F.H. Batacan, Smaller and Smaller Circles illustrates the best and worst human nature: the antiseptic and dirty, the sublime and rotten, the hellish and divine.

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Country(ies) : PHILIPPINES

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Festivals and Awards

Busan IFF 2017 A Window on Asian Cinema


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