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Delikado

Directed by: Karl Malakunas
Runtime: 1h 31min Certificate: TBC Year: 2022
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Directed by: Karl Malakunas
Runtime: 1h 31min Certificate: TBC Year: 2022
Topics: Environment
Last Screened: Thu 13th Apr 2023

As land defenders worldwide risk their lives to save natural resources from being plundered, Delikado takes us to the tropical island Palawan - the Philippines' 'last ecological frontier'.

Here, a tiny network of environmental crusaders are engaged in a David-and-Goliath struggle to protect their island from illegal logging and fishing, pitting themselves not just against the workers carrying out these acts, but against a corrupt government which supports the exploitation of Palawan’s resources for its apparent economic gains.

In the shadow of President Rodrgugo Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’, Delikado follows three magnetic leaders of this network who continue putting their lives on the line even as Duterte visits the region and the drug war is used to control the levers of economic and political power.