The rebel filmmaker who pissed off dictators and changed Philippine cinema forever.
Direction
Sicat and Dalena honor Bernal's own restless, probing eye.
Production
Rare archival footage from Marcos-era Philippines hits different.
Director
Keith Sicat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bernal was one of the 'Titans of Philippine Cinema' alongside Lino Brocka, but deliberately chose more subversive, less commercially palatable subjects.
The documentary reveals how Bernal smuggled political critiques past censors by framing them as moral tales—only to have the Marcos regime catch on and ban him anyway.
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