On the President's Orders
Synopsis
The searing story of President Duterte's bloody campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines, told with unprecedented and intimate access to both sides of the war - the Manila police, and an ordinary family from the slum. Shot in the style of a thriller, this observational film combines the look and feel of a narrative feature film with a real life revelatory journalistic investigation into a campaign of killings. The film uncovers a murky world where crime, drugs and politics meet in a deathly embrace - and reveal that although the police have been publicly ordered to stop extra-judicial killings, the deaths continue.
On the President's Orders (2019) is a 1h 10min documentary feature film by Olivier Sarbil. The searing story of President Duterte's bloody campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines, told wi... Selected for Raindance Film Festival (2019).
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Festival History
- CPH:DOX 2019 generic
- Melbourne International Film Festival 2019 generic
- Raindance Film Festival 2019
- Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2019 generic
- Zurich Film Festival 2019 generic
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| IMDb | tt9338028 |
| TMDB | 599207 |
