{"id":2263209,"date":"2026-02-02T17:25:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2263209"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:25:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:25:59","slug":"rotterdams-first-light-director-james-j-robinson-on-faith-doubt-and-decolonization-clip-unveiled-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rotterdams-first-light-director-james-j-robinson-on-faith-doubt-and-decolonization-clip-unveiled-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotterdam\u2019s \u2018First Light\u2019 Director James J. Robinson on Faith, Doubt and Decolonization, Clip Unveiled (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Filipino-Australian director James J. Robinson<\/a> is bringing his debut feature \u201cFirst Light\u201d to the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where the drama explores the intersection of faith, colonialism and institutional corruption through the story of an elderly nun confronting moral questions in the Philippines. Variety is exclusively unveiling a clip from the film.<\/p>\n

The film, which had its world premiere at the 2025 Melbourne International Film Festival, stars Ruby Ruiz<\/a> as Sister Yolanda, a nurse and nun whose quiet life of service is upended when a young construction worker dies under suspicious circumstances. The incident forces her to reckon with the church and community she has served for decades.<\/p>\n

Robinson<\/a> explains that his approach to the material came from personal experience. \u201cI was raised Catholic, and from a young age, already realizing that I was queer, it kind of set me off on this different path where my introduction to Catholicism was doubt,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Filipino-Australian director James J. Robinson is bringing his debut feature \u201cFirst Light\u201d to the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where the drama explores the intersection of faith, colonialism and institutional corruption through the story of an elderly nun confronting moral questions in the Philippines. Variety is exclusively unveiling a clip from the film. The film, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2263210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2263209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Rotterdams-\u2018First-Light-Director-James-J-Robinson-on-Faith-Doubt.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263211,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263209\/revisions\/2263211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}