You have to give “Ma’ Rosa” points for this: Filipino director Brillante Mendoza’s neorealist indictment of police corruption looks unlike any other film playing in Cannes’ Official ...

Back in competition at Cannes, Filipino director Brillante Mendoza ('Kinatay') tackles the subject of police corruption as it affects a small-time drug dealer. After recreating the 2001 Dos Palmas ...

Mendoza got “emotional” after the premiere of his latest work, “Ma’ Rosa,” an entry in the Main Competition of the Cannes Film Festival, which wraps up today. Actress Maria Isabel Lopez ...

Brillante Mendoza’s “Ma’ Rosa” opens today at selected cinemas nationwide. The film was the Philippine entry to the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival. It won the Best Actress Award ...