Festival darling Brillante Mendoza's "Kinatay" is a long night's journey into the Philippine underworld of casual corruption and nauseating cruelty, seen through the eyes of a greenhorn police cadet.

Brillante Mendoza (top photo, left) shows the certificate that he received for being the Best Director in the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. He is photographed with French co-producer Didier Costet.

A criminology student named Peping (Coco Martin, in photo) becomes a witness and an accomplice in the gruesome murder of a prostitute in the Brillante Mendoza film Kinatay. This Cannes award-winning ...

MANILA, Philippines — Brazilian author Paulo Coelho took to social media to rave about the 2009 award-winning Filipino film “Kinatay.” Coelho said that Brillante Mendoza’s “Kinatay” is “one of the ...

Germany’s The Match Factory has picked up international rights to Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay, which has been selected to screen in competition at Cannes. The film is the Filipino director’s second in ...

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CEBU, Philippines - The Entertainment Press Society or ENPRESS, Inc. recently bared the nominees to the 7th Golden Screen Awards. Topping the list of nominees for cinematic excellence for the movies ...

20-year-old Peping (Coco Martin) is a student at the police academy in Manila. He marries his girlfriend Cecille (Mercedes Cabral), with whom he already has a young child, and looks forward to their ...

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Filipino director Brillante Mendoza has been sitting on a couch outside Cannes' Grand Hotel all afternoon talking about his latest film, Kinatay, and seems to be wilting in the Mediterranean sun. As ...

Filipino director Brillante Mendoza emerged as an intriguing talent at last year's Cannes with Serbis, a portrait of a fading porn cinema in Manila. Kinatay, screening in Competition, is infinitely ...

Festival darling Brillante Mendoza's "Kinatay" is a long night's journey into the Philippine underworld of casual corruption and nauseating cruelty, seen through the eyes of a greenhorn police cadet.