Combining the religious base of his feature debut, “Ave Maryam”, with the social commentary regarding the labor market of “Cross the Line”, Razka Robby Ertanto attempts to come up with a film that unfolds in a number of levels. Let us see how he fares.
Yohanna is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
As the movie begins, we watch the titular nun running around with Malu, a girl who has left the convent she is living in some time ago, trying to rent a car in order to distribute relief to areas in Sumba, which was subjected to a number of natural disasters along with the consequences of Covid. They finally manage to secure one, but just after they arrive to their destination, the van is stolen. Alis, a little girl from the area, who seems to be exploited by a number of people who have her sell alcohol in...
Yohanna is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
As the movie begins, we watch the titular nun running around with Malu, a girl who has left the convent she is living in some time ago, trying to rent a car in order to distribute relief to areas in Sumba, which was subjected to a number of natural disasters along with the consequences of Covid. They finally manage to secure one, but just after they arrive to their destination, the van is stolen. Alis, a little girl from the area, who seems to be exploited by a number of people who have her sell alcohol in...
- 2/1/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez was born in Makati City, Manila, Philippines. He has directed the Festival shorts “Imago” and “Judgement”, both of which were nominated for a Palme d’Or at Cannes; “Imago” also won the TIFF Short Cuts Award for Best Short Film. “Verdict” is his feature debut.
On the occasion of Verdict screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival, we speak with him about the transition from short to features, domestic violence and bureaucracy in the Philippines, the cinematography and the editing in the film, and many other topics.
How was the transition from short films to feature ones? What was the biggest difficulty and what the biggest difference?
Making films is always difficult either short or feature. Both has it’s respective discipline to acknowledge. Telling short stories that feels like a feature and telling a full-length stories that feels like a short.
The film deals with domestic...
On the occasion of Verdict screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival, we speak with him about the transition from short to features, domestic violence and bureaucracy in the Philippines, the cinematography and the editing in the film, and many other topics.
How was the transition from short films to feature ones? What was the biggest difficulty and what the biggest difference?
Making films is always difficult either short or feature. Both has it’s respective discipline to acknowledge. Telling short stories that feels like a feature and telling a full-length stories that feels like a short.
The film deals with domestic...
- 12/16/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The topic of domestic violence is usually a tricky one. Luckily, Filipino director Raymund Ribay Gutierrez picks the right approach: the straight one for his feature debut “Verdict”. The film premiered at Venice, in Orizzonti competition and its universal appeal of domestic drama combined with procedural about the faulty state of the country’s bureaucracy should assure its vibrant and long festival life.
“Verdict” is Screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
The film opens at home with Joy Santos and her daughter Angel (Jordhen Suan). Their evening routine is suddenly interrupted when Joy’s husband and Angel’s father Dante comes back home violently drunk and angry about some miscommunication between him and Joy. As the argument gets more and more heated, he gets physically violent toward his spouse, even hitting their child who gets in between. After slashing him with a kitchen knife in an obvious act of self-defense,...
“Verdict” is Screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
The film opens at home with Joy Santos and her daughter Angel (Jordhen Suan). Their evening routine is suddenly interrupted when Joy’s husband and Angel’s father Dante comes back home violently drunk and angry about some miscommunication between him and Joy. As the argument gets more and more heated, he gets physically violent toward his spouse, even hitting their child who gets in between. After slashing him with a kitchen knife in an obvious act of self-defense,...
- 12/6/2020
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
The topic of domestic violence is usually a tricky one. Luckily, the Filipino director Raymund Ribay Gutierrez picks the right approach: the straight one for his feature debut “Verdict”. The film has just premiered at Venice, in Orizzonti competition and its universal appeal of domestic drama combined with procedural about the faulty state of the country’s bureaucracy should assure its vibrant and long festival life.
The film opens at home with Joy Santos and her daughter Angel (Jordhen Suan). Their evening routine is suddenly interrupted when Joy’s husband and Angel’s father Dante comes back home violently drunk and angry about some miscommunication between him and Joy. As the argument gets more and more heated, he gets physically violent toward his spouse, even hitting their child who gets in between. After slashing him with a kitchen knife in an obvious act of self-defense, Joy, pretty beaten up, runs...
The film opens at home with Joy Santos and her daughter Angel (Jordhen Suan). Their evening routine is suddenly interrupted when Joy’s husband and Angel’s father Dante comes back home violently drunk and angry about some miscommunication between him and Joy. As the argument gets more and more heated, he gets physically violent toward his spouse, even hitting their child who gets in between. After slashing him with a kitchen knife in an obvious act of self-defense, Joy, pretty beaten up, runs...
- 8/31/2019
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
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