On the President's Orders
7.5 / 11 votes
Sheffield Doc/Fest Release Date
Friday 7th June 2019
Next Showing:
None. Last shown at Sheffield Doc/Fest on 3rd October 2019.
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Genres:
Crime, Documentary, Thriller
Language:
Tagalog
Runtime:
1 hour 10 minutes (approx.)
Movie Synopsis:
The searing story of President Duterte's bloody campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines, told with unprecedented and intimate access to both sides of the war - the Manila police, and an ordinary family from the slum. Shot in the style of a thriller, this observational film combines the look and feel of a narrative feature film with a real life revelatory journalistic investigation into a campaign of killings. The film uncovers a murky world where crime, drugs and politics meet in a deathly embrace - and reveal that although the police have been publicly ordered to stop extra-judicial killings, the deaths continue.