Our Anti-MMFF festival of the year’s best Filipino movies: Badil by Chito Roño
Badil: Democracy for Sale
Elections are the pinnacle of Philippine political life—so emotional and all-encompassing, everything that follows is practically negligible. Every effort is exerted and no resource spared in order to win the vote; by the time the winner is proclaimed, there is nothing left.
During election season, we make stirring declarations about truth, justice, change. “Vote wisely.” “Be guided by your conscience.” “Don’t sell your vote.” We mean what we say. The problem is that we know nothing.
Democracy is founded on the principle that the citizens have the right to choose their own leaders. Badil (“Gun”), the gripping political thriller by Chito Roño, shows us a system that has perverted this principle.
Read the full article in our Anti-MMFF festival at InterAksyon.com.
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