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On The President’s Orders

Directed by: James Jones, Olivier Sarbil
Runtime: 1hr 12min Year: 2019
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Directed by: James Jones, Olivier Sarbil
Runtime: 1hr 12min Year: 2019
Country: United Kingdom, France
Last Screened: Thu 3rd Oct 2019

Shot in the style of a Hollywood thriller, this is the searing story of President Duterte’s bloody campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines, told with unprecedented and intimate access to both sides of the war.

Shot in the style of a Hollywood thriller, this observational film combines the look and feel of a narrative feature film with a real life revelatory journalistic investigation into a campaign of killings.

Gangster youths move through smoky nightclubs, armed police patrol in skull masks, and a solitary mortician waits in his warehouse for his next victim.

On The President’s Orders uncovers a murky world where crime, drugs and politics collide – and reveals a sinister truth about the nature of the ongoing slaughter on the streets of Manila.