Programmed April 2021

Directed by Isabel Sandoval

Featuring a new introduction by the filmmaker “I’m drawn to women with secrets,” says Filipina director Isabel Sandoval (Lingua Franca), a rising star of independent filmmaking who toys with genre conventions in her subversive portraits of women whose personal journeys are tangled up in complex sociopolitical realities. A true auteur, Sandoval wrote, produced, directed, and starred in her feature debut, Señorita , the gripping, noir-tinged story of a trans woman’s struggles to quit sex work and start a new life. Individual and social crises again collide in Apparition , an intense psychological drama set in a Filipino convent being gradually consumed by the encroaching political unrest of the Marcos era.

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