Ditsi Carolino

Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.

5.6/10

A film in two parts about a fierce and deadly battle raging between farmers and landowners in the Philippines. The first part tracks the Sumilao farmers’ gruelling 1,700-kilometer journey through scorching heat, rains, fatigue, and great uncertainty to the presidential palace in Manila. The second part tells the story of the sugarcane workers from Negros.

A documentary that explores injustice, neglect and perpetual helplessness.

8.9/10

Riles is a documentary about the life of a riles resident, Eddie, in a squatter area along the railroad tracks within the downtrodden section of Balic-balik, Manila.

8.4/10

The lives of random children from different parts of the Philippines, facing the same predicament of living life of arduous labor to cope with the harsh realities of poverty.

7.3/10

A collective work, made at the beginning of the 1990s, was the result of a workshop lead by German filmmakers, such as Michael Wulfes and Christian Weisenborn. Its authors, who now belong among the stars of the Philippine cinema, depict intimate portraits of children living in the streets of Manila.

"Kayod Kabayo" is a short documentary film by Ditsi Carolino. It is a part of "Pagsamba at Pakikibaka," a series of short documentaries about Catholic Social Teaching directed and produced by Ditsi Carolino and co-produced by St. Vincent School of Theology.