Insiang

Screenwriters: Mario O’Hara, Lamberto E. Antonio Vidiots, The Cinegogue, and A Bunch of Savages are thrilled to present an ultra-rare screening of Lino Brocka’s masterful melodrama Insiang. Jealousy and violence take center stage in this claustrophobic melo­drama, a tautly constructed character study set in the slums of Manila from Filipino master Lino Brocka. Brocka crafts an eviscerating portrait of an innocent daughter and her bitter mother as women scorned. Insiang leads a quiet life dominated by household duties, but after she is assaulted by her mother’s lover and abandoned by the young…