FILM

Manila in the Claws of Light (Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag) tells the story of a young provincial named Julio Madiaga who goes to the city to look for his lost love, Ligaya Paraiso. From its opening shot of littered sidewalks to its final one of Julio, cowering at the bottom of a dead-end alley, it is a series of voluptuous images charged with urgency and captured raw and honest.

Restored in 2013 by the Film Foundation (World Cinema Project) and the Film Development Council of the Philippines at Cineteca di Bologna / L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with LVN, Cinema Artists Philippines and Mike de Leon.