
Spotlight: Southeast Asian Shorts
In this edition of SPOTLIGHT, the festival features a carefully curated selection of Southeast Asian short films.
Documentary | 94 min | 2022 | Philippines
Language: English, Filipino
Subtitles: English
DELIKADO follows environmental defenders Bobby and Tata of the Palawan NGO Network Inc and former El Nido mayor Nieves. They risk their lives in David versus Goliath-style struggles, stopping politicians and businessmen from destroying the Philippines’ “last ecological frontier”.
Karl is a filmmaker and journalist who has been based in Asia—covering environmental issues, conflict, natural disasters and political upheavals—for two decades. Karl is the Asia-Pacific Deputy-Editor-In-Chief for Agence France-Presse based in Hong Kong. He is a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Fellow and a recipient of the SFFILM Vulcan Productions Environmental Fellowship. After living in the Philippines for eight years while working as Manila Bureau Chief for AFP, Karl has drawn on his experiences, contacts and deep inside knowledge of the country to make DELIKADO, his first feature film. His environmental reporting around the world has included covering the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the eastern Philippines, and the coal-powered rise of China’s economy.
In this edition of SPOTLIGHT, the festival features a carefully curated selection of Southeast Asian short films.
Revolves around ”jueteng”, the game of numbers dating back to the Philippines” Spanish colonial period (1521-1898).
The abduction of Jonas Burgos in 2007 was brazen – done at noontime in a crowded mall.
Jose, a student, leaves his mother a letter to inform her that he’s leaving home to learn why people decide to join the underground movement.