September 6, Tuesday

7PM: 4th Silvershorts 2011 Grand Prize
Closing Film / Premiere 13: John Torres: MAPANG-AKIT

Closing Film:
MAPANG-AKIT (Philippines)
Dir: John Torres. 1hr 30min

"Mapang-akit" is an offshoot of a documentary project made with an Icelandic filmmaker and uses the outtakes from the Hudas Hudas festival in Antique, where a community bonds over a large effigy of Judas Iscariot during Holy Week. Amidst it is a found story of a man who returns home to his death after pursuing a woman in a neighboring village.

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