First Light
<div><div><div>The debut feature from MIFF award-winning Filipino-Australian filmmaker James J. Robinson is an elegant and quietly devastating examination of belief, community and institutional corruption in a mountain community, centred around a rustic nuns’ convent and a conspicuously majestic church.</div><div><br></div><div>Forty-something Sister Yolanda (Ruby Ruiz) lives in a colonial mountain convent and works at the local hospital where she is admired for her kindness and piety. After giving last rites to a young man involved in a horrific construction accident, the nun is troubled by the nature of his death. She starts to piece together the circumstances of the accident, in her gentle way, through her interactions with those in her close-knit community, including the dead man’s father, the local priest and the wealthy wife of the construction site owner. In discerning anew the power structures around her – including the centre of her world, her beloved Church – her belief system and the very reason for her existence is put into question. </div><div><br></div></div></div><div>Shot in a verdant mountainous landscape in northern Luzon, First Light is a slow-burn crime drama that you won’t be able to tear your eyes from.</div>DramaPT1H58MCTCRuby Ruiz
Kare Adea
Maricel Soriano
James J. Robinson
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