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Please note: This screening has been cancelled. The session will now present Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution 2011.

'It's the year 2011 and the Philippines has been taken over by a military junta; the leader, a General Racellos, wields tight control over the country's single TV station, radio station and newspaper. Racellos' power is being challenged by Muslim secessionists, by the Communist movement and by a rival military group. In the middle of this turmoil stands Hesus Mariano – scholar, musician, sharpshooter, poet, warrior. Jesus the Revolutionary was made on a shoestring budget and shot in roughly twenty days, but the ideas teeming in it are enough to fill a half-dozen lesser films. It's an action flick with an attitude, a political satire with a philosophical bent, a science-fiction drama with a committed political stance. The film mixes the influences of George Orwell, Jose Rizal and video games, using the future as a prismatic lens to focus on the follies of the present.' International Film Festival Rotterdam