Aswang
by Alyx Arumpac
Creative Documentary | 85 min | 2019 | Philippines
Language: English, Filipino
Subtitles: English
Screening Schedule
- Date:
- Time:
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- September 20, 2025
- 9 AM – 12 PM
- UP Film Media Center Studio
About the Film
SYNOPSIS & LOGLINE
When Rodrigo Duterte is voted president of the Philippines, he sets in motion a machinery of death to execute suspected drug peddlers, users, and small-time criminals. Aswang follows people whose fates entwine with the growing violence during two years of killings in Manila.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
- FIPRESCI Award, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
- Best Film, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, South Korea
- Best Film, DocAviv Film Festival
- Amnesty International Award, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Greece
- Best Film, Montreal International Documentary Festival, Canada
- Best Picture, Best Documentary Film, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, FAMAS, Philippines
- Doc Fortnight 2020, MoMa, NYC, USA
- True/False, Missouri, USA
- One World 2020, Prague, Czech Republic
- FIFDH Geneve, Switzerland
- Daang Dokyu, Manila, Philippines
- Cinema du Reel, Paris, International Competition
- One World IFRDFF, Romania
- ACT Human Rights Film Festival, Colorado, USA
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Alyx Ayn Arumpac is a Filipina documentary filmmaker. She received a Master in Documentary Filmmaking from the Docnomads Erasmus Mundus Master Course (Portugal, Hungary, Belgium) and a Bachelor in Film at the University of the Philippines. She directs and produces short documentaries for the top TV network in Manila.
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