Neomanila

In the slums of Manila, street orphan Toto is forced by the police to betray his gang and find a wanted drug dealer in exchange of his brother’s release from prison. He soon discovers that a couple of notorious hitmen have killed the dealer for money. Toto soon meets the matriarch Irma and the dark Raul, who work as pest exterminators in the day time and as hitmen at night. Irma offers Toto a job so that he can get enough money to bail out his brother. He quickly becomes the death squad’s new protégé.

“My previous films dealt with human rights violation, but with Neomanila, the perspective is different as the story is told from the point of view of the people literally caught in drug wars, of suspicious agents, mercenaries trading with both criminal targets and the police. The underground killing business has thrived on this new war on drugs.” Mikhail Red