RIA

By Arvin BELARMINO

LA RESIDENCE DU FESTIVAL - as PROMO

Drama - Development 2023


    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • PHILIPPINES
    • Duration
    • 100 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Arvin BELARMINO
    • Writer(s)
    • Arvin BELARMINO
    • Producer(s)
    • Kristine DE LEON, August ESPINO (CLAYSHOP), Alemberg ANG
    • Synopsis
    • Ria is a 22-year-old musician who grew up at
      Vachel’s Cave, a punk commune. Surrounded
      by hunger and oppression, Ria takes part in
      mutual aid events where she plays along
      with a folk-punk band. To help solve the
      struggles of the commune, she works as a
      hotel housekeeper in the day and porn shoot
      assistant at night – providing for the family she
      knows while making ends meet for herself.
      Soon, the surrounding violence closes in on
      Vachel’s Cave. Ria obliges herself to harder
      labor and is forced to become a porn actress
      just to survive. Before long, the community
      comes to ruin as they fall victim to senseless
      killings. As Ria nurses grief, regret, and anger,
      she starts to use her music against the social
      injustices around her.
    • Partners & financing
    • FILM DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF THE PHILIPPINES