This year’s Cinemalaya Best Film won the approval of both critical and popular audiences. In the words of its filmmakers, it is a film of firsts. This is the first full-length film in Kinaray-a featuring an ensemble of the cast who are mostly first-time actors. Despite this, why is John Denver Trending so familiar? In this video, we look at what this film gets right (and wrong). We examine it vis-à-vis a film that was produced four years ago titled Bambanti.

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