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罗莎妈妈有4个孩子。她在菲律宾首都马尼拉一处破旧的居民区经营者一家小杂货店。为了维持生计，罗莎和他的丈夫Nester开始倒卖麻醉针剂。一天，他们被警方逮捕。罗莎和她的孩子们愿意做任何事以从腐败的警察手中换取自由。

太平洋战争初期，美军将兵力投入欧洲战场，无力挽回菲律宾战事，导致一万名美军、六万名菲军在巴丹半岛被俘。日军一直残酷对待这些战俘，军部更于1944年一月决定屠杀俘虏，这部电影，讲述的就是发生在44年一月四天中的故事。 游骑兵上尉普林斯分属幕西中校的队伍，他们接受了在麦克阿瑟将军北上过程中营救某战俘营里500名美军的任务，由于日军对待战俘毫不留情，此次行动必须高度隐秘。同一时间，战俘营中的少校吉布森（约瑟夫•费因斯 Joseph Fiennes 饰）正艰难的为生存和获取外界信息而努力，虽然当地有护士玛格丽特等人想法设法为战俘提供帮助，但缺药的状况一直存在。为执行屠杀命令，宪兵军官长井接管了战俘营，而战俘营外，游骑兵战士们经过秘密行军终于抵达了目的地，营救成败，很快就要揭晓……

美菲战争期间，一位年轻将军Gregorio del Pilar的故事，最后在蒂拉德山口战役中牺牲了。

以菲律宾为主题的影片，代表菲律宾电影的三位导演Brillante Mendoza，Lavda Diaz和Kidla Lathatimic参与其中。菲律宾由7,641个岛屿组成，分为三个部分：北吕宋岛，南棉兰老岛和中米沙鄢群岛。

A majestic film in which two stories easily fit. One about a filmmaker who is a little like Diaz himself and wrestles with the completion of his film and with greedy film festival programmers. And one about a religious leader. Also a little like Diaz himself? The films of Lav Diaz often tell serious epic stories, but they are still not entirely free from humour and satire. For instance in this film, Diaz takes the mickey out of festival programmers and also sketches a picture of himself that is not entirely free from self-mockery. The film has two or three stories (also a film in the film) and one of them focuses on the filmmaker Homer, who very much resembles Lav Diaz himself. The tortured filmmaker wrestles with completing his film. Despite pleas from those around him and from eager programmers, he continues to refuse to regard his film as finished. Alongside the story about a nun in the film on which Homer is working, there’s another story about the religious leader Father Turbico. Turbico leads a sect in the countryside that is primarily made up of young women. When one of the women wants to leave the sect, a dramatic situation ensues. By telling the stories in parallel, similarities become visible between Homer’s struggle with cinema and Turbico's struggle with faith.

Mario O’Hara’s “Demons” (Pangarap ng Puso, 2000) is about a pair of young lovers, Nena (Matet de Leon) and Jose (Alex Alano), doing their best to live and love in an increasingly hostile world. Nena (a lovely child grown into lovely young woman, giving a surprisingly lovely performance) is from a rich family in the Negros provinces that owns a series of fishponds; Jose is from one of many poor families commissioned to clean and operate those fishponds. The film traces their relationship as it develops through the years, from childhood into adulthood, from prosperity into deep recession, from a time of peace into a time of violent political turmoil.                                                                      Nena and Jose’s reactions to that turmoil is complex–steeped all their lives in Negros mythology, they gradually equate present-day rebels and corrupt army officers with the demons and monsters of their youth. They reply in a number of ways, each according to his or her nature: through political protest, civil activism, armed rebellion, even the composition and recitation of some (very beautiful) Filipino poetry.