The film, which expands on Manuel’s Silver Bear Jury Prize-winning short of the same name from the Berlin Film Festival, follows Isabel, a tee-girl at Manila’s Alabang Golf & Country Club who spends her days teeing up golf balls mere inches from swinging clubs. When she encounters the club president, Dr. Palanca, asleep in some bushes on the course, a brief connection sets her on a journey deeper into the country club’s world – and into what Manuel describes as “a cosmos that reflects the inherent structural violence of the Philippines.”
“Yes, the film is set on a golf course in the Philippines, but it could be set anywhere really,” Manuel tells Variety. “What I’m trying to convey is that regardless of where we find ourselves…
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