Aparisyon (2012 Pinoy Movie)

2012, A, Drama, Thriller,

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Description : Aparisyon (Apparition) is a 2012 Filipino psychological drama film by Vincent Sandoval. The film is Sandoval's sophomore feature. It is a story about nuns in the period immediately preceding Martial Law. It is one of the official entries for the New Breed Full Length Feature Category in Cinemalaya 2012.

The film was invited to many film festivals around the world, including Deauville Asian Film Festival which the film won the Audience Award. While in Hawaii International Film Festival, the film won the NETPAC Award citing "for its courageous exploration of religious faith, guilt and forgiveness through masterful storytelling and visual imagery". The film was also nominated for the New Currents Award at the 2012 Busan International Film Festival.

Set in 1971, the sisters of the Adoration monastery in a remote town in Rizal lead quiet and peaceful lives. Remy (Mylene Dizon), an extern nun or someone who is able to leave the monastery from time to time to do errands for the nuns, learns from her mother that her activist brother was missing. She asks their Mother Superior Ruth (Cuyugan-Asensio) for an indefinite leave of absence to help her family search for her brother. Since her request was turned down, she starts attending meetings of families with missing relatives secretly. Lourdes (Jodi Sta. Maria), who joined the monastery just recently, decides to become an extern too to go alongside with Remy and attend a meeting. They fell victim to violence on their way back.