Aswang
201985 min15+
Awardee
Best International Feature-length DocumentaryFestival Film Dokumenter
2020
Synopsis
In the Philippines, in two years, over 20,000 men, women and children were killed in Duterte’s war against small street drug dealers and users, while the drug moguls are left free to roam. The police forces have organized a “machinery of death” to execute the poorest people. In the dark outskirts of Manila, the filmmaker follows a little boy, a mortician, and some other characters concerned by this increasing violence and injustice. The shadow of the aswang, the legendary local monster is haunting the bloody nights of the city.
Credits
Director
Alyx Ayn Arumpac
Alyx Ayn Arumpac is a Filipino filmmaker and producer. Her debut feature documentary ‘Aswang’ won 25 awards, including the FIPRESCI prize at IDFA, the grand prizes at Gawad Urian and FAMAS in the Philippines, RIDM in Canada, DMZ Documentary Festival in South Korea, Film Festival Dokumenter Yogyakarta in Indonesia, FDCP’s Camera Obscura Artistic Excellence award, the Amnesty International Award at Thessaloniki, and more. Alyx completed a Master’s degree in documentary film directing at Docnomads in Portugal, Hungary, and Belgium. She studied at the University of the Philippines Film Institute, the Philippine High School for the Arts, and is an alumna of Berlinale Talents Docstation, IDFA Academy, Talents Tokyo, and Docs by the Sea.
