
Apparition
Program Running Time
87 min.
Films in Program

(Aparisyon)
Directed By: Vincent Sandoval
(Philippines, 2012, 87 mins, Betacam SP)
A startling left-turn after Senorita (VIFF 11), Vincent Sandoval’s new film is about nuns in a cloister convent that may—or may not—be a metaphor for the Philippines under the Marcos dictatorship. Set in 1971, it has the newly arrived Sister Lourdes venturing into a dangerous Manila to investigate the disappearance of her activist brother…