Metro Manila

15 yrs 115 minutes • 2013 • 7.6

In director Sean Elli's (Cashback) recent film, Metro Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family leave their meager lives on the rice fields in the northern Philippines to seek a brighter future in the metropolitan city of Manila, but the intensity of the city overwhelms them. The mother in the family gets a job at a shady bar and Oscar starts working at a company providing transportation for valuable goods. The job proves to be very dangerous and mortality is high while the boss requires absolute loyalty. Metro Manila won the British Independent Film Award for Best Film in 2013 and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.