SYNOPSIS
Richard and Raymond are two teenage brothers in Davao City. Richard is the leader of his gang, “Bagong Buwan,” while Raymond is just being inducted into rival gang, “Batang Dilim.” Complications at a deadly midnight engkwentro (square-off), when Raymond is given the task of killing his older brother. Meanwhile, the Davao Death Squad lurks the streets. This real-life vigilante group is allegedly backed by the city mayor and responsible for many unsolved murders of teen gangsters. Today, they are hunting down Richard. Will they take the younger brother, too?
FILMMAKER’S PROFILE
At only 21 years old, PEPE DIOKNO is Cinemalaya’s youngest finalist ever. An undergraduate film major at the University of the Philippines, Pepe’s first movie, No Passport Needed, was nominated Best Short Film at the 2006 Cinemalaya. His second, Dancing for Discipline, for which he spent a year touring jails around the country, has been received well by audiences here, a well as in Brazil, France, and the United States. Pepe writes a column for top national broadsheet, The Philippine Star. He is currently writing, producing, and directing his first feature-length film, Engkwentro.
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