MA' ROSA

By Brillante MA MENDOZA

PLAYTIME - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2016


Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2016
Competition Best Actress
Toronto - TIFF 2016
Masters
BFI London FF 2016
Debate
Busan - BIFF/APM 2016
A Window on Asian Cinema
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • PHILIPPINES
    • Languages
    • FILIPINO
    • Duration
    • 110 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Brillante MA MENDOZA
    • Synopsis
    • Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenient store in a poor neighborhood of Manila where everybody likes her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa’s children are ready to do anything to buy their parents’ freedom from the corrupt police.