Isabel, a 17-year-old from the rural north of the Philippines, works at a posh country club outside Manila. Amid stifling heat and pervasive drought, she lines up golf balls for powerful men to drive into the carefully manicured horizon. But something is rotting beneath the pristine fairways of the elite resort. The deeper she journeys into its most exclusive corners, the closer she gets to the violent truths of the club, her native Philippines, and her own past.

FILIPIÑANA is the feature debut of writer-director Rafael Manuel, expanding on his Silver Bear-winning 2020 short film of the same name. The film premiered in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision, before going on to screen at the 2026 Berlinale.