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PHILIPPINES · 2014
From What Is Before
Synopsis
The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad, and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081, putting the entire country under Martial Law.
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martial law · political upheaval · rural violence · mystery and paranoia · Philippine history
