• Director(s):

    Olivia DEHEZ

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE, MEMENTO

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2018

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET

President Rodrigo Duterte campaigned on the promise to eradicate drug traffic in his country.

Two years after his election in 2016, at least 20.000 deaths were attributed to his manhunt policies taking aim at drug addicts and former police informants among others – which leaves the door wide open to political vendettas and mafia killings. 
The Philippines Catholic Church is the first institution to rise against this return of the arbitrary. Their opposition takes its roots in the Philippine clergy’s historically revolutionary tradition – in 1986 they had already helped overthrow Dictator Ferdinand Marcos.