Filipinana (12A)

Searching for a way out of the poverty gripping most of Philippine society, 17-year-old Isabel takes a job at an ultra-luxurious resort in the capital – an environment whose atmosphere is closer to that of a colonial plantation than a club reserved exclusively for the country's elite. Her habit of wandering away from the golf courses she's supposed to be tending will bring her close to Dr. Palanca, the resort's president – perhaps not as close as the raw curiosity she inexplicably feels toward the man might have led her, but certainly closer than she'll come to wish, in hindsight, she'd ever been.