The Smiling Star, dir. Werner Schroeter, West Germany 1983, German, English, Tagalong and Spanish with German and English subtitles, 110 min.
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Shot clandestinely while Schroeter was a guest of the Manila International Film Festival, The Smiling Star (Der lachende Stern) is a dense, documentary-collage on the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. A lamentation on power and spectacle.
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06:30 pm
Thu, 02 Apr 2026
Cinema 1
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