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There’s a moment in writer-director Rafael Manuel’s often brilliant, always enthralling feature debut, Filipiñana, an expansion of his award-winning 2021 short, where Clara (Carmen Castellanos), the American-born-and-raised niece of a wealthy Filipino businessman, Renato (Carlitos Siguion-Reyna), refuses to bend —...

Also: How he works between different languages, actors and non-actors, and the film's particular visual form. Jorrybell Agoto delivers an understated performance as a marginalised "tee-girl" in this Filipino debut feature.