Aswang

Since Rodrigo Dutertes was elected president of the Philippines, the “Aswang”, evil creatures of mythology, have entered the streets of Manila. In an alleged fight against drugs, he issued a carte blanche to police officers who now roam the poorest districts of the capital killing small-time dealers, drug addicts and other innocent people, while the big drug barons remain untouched. Director Alyx Ayn Arumpac follows a handful of people into the city’s nocturnal underworld: a journalist, a forensic doctor, a missionary and a street boy whose parents are in prison and friends in the cemetery. This poetically told documentary is a shocking testimony to the moral bankruptcy of a regime.