**Filipiñana** opens in Cincinnati on September 4th and runs through September 10th at Mariemont Theatre. 

Winner of the Sundance World Cinema Jury Award for Creative Vision, the film follows Isabel, a 17-year-old from the rural north of the Philippines, who works at a posh country club outside Manila. But something is rotting beneath the pristine fairways of the elite resort, as Isabel discovers when she tries to return a mislaid golf club to its patriarchal director, Dr. Palanca.

Isabel, a 17-year-old from the rural north of the Philippines, works at a posh country club outside Manila. Amid stifling heat and pervasive drought, she lines up golf balls for powerful men to drive into the carefully manicured verdant horizon. Between shifts, she wanders the immaculate grounds, sampling its luxuries and exploring its liminal spaces. The club’s members, including an industrialist and his expatriate niece, the president and his pampered wife, and a slew of Chinese tourists, engage in a complex dance with the doting and subservient staff. But something is rotting beneath the pristine fairways of the elite resort, as Isabel discovers when she tries to return a mislaid golf club to its patriarchal director, Dr. Palanca. The deeper she journeys into its most exclusive corners, the closer she gets to the violent truths of the club, her native Philippines, and her own past.

Mariemont Theatre

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**Filipiñana** is winner of the Sundance World Cinema Jury Award for Creative Vision and opens in Cincinnati on September 4th at Mariemont Theatre. 

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