Kisapmata by Mike De Leon Now Showing!

Event Date: February 14 (6:00PM); February 16 (6:15PM); February 17 (6:00PM)

Enter the claustrophobic nightmare of the House on Zapote Street with the 4K restoration of KISAPMATA—Mike De Leon’s harrowing true-crime masterpiece that exposes the suffocating horrors of patriarchal control.

Opens February 14 | One Sunday in November, Mila (Charo Santos) announces to her father Dadang (Vic Silayan), a retired police officer, that she is pregnant, asking for permission to marry her co-worker Noel (Jay Ilangan). Tension mount as Dadong's unreasonable expectations for a dowry are not met and he exhibits an increasingly authoritarian streak. The couple marries and soon, Mila's father begins a game of exclusion and manipulation in the hopes of reasserting control over his kin.

Based on the true crime reportage "The House on Zapote Street" penned by Nick Joaquin, Mike De Leon's KISAPMATA, beautifully restored in 4K by L'Immagine Ritrovata, is a stunning example of psychological horror; a film that meticulously tighten the noose around its characters' necks until the outcome feels inevitable — culminating in a brutal, unflinching portrait of the horrors of patriarchy at its most pathological.

Awards & Nominations
1982 Cannes Directors' Fortnight Official Selection

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