Filipiñana

12A

The Maynila Country Club is a 74-hectare compound with enough facilities to keep the creme-de-la-creme of Philippine society distracted and insulated from the country’s socio-political problems. Among its facilities is the driving range where 17-year-old Isabel works as a tee-girl. Despite being new to her job, she starts slipping away from the driving range to explore the lush greenery of the surrounding golf course which reminds her of the hometown she has left behind. 

When she attempts to return a lost golf club, Isabel uncovers a dark underbelly beneath the club’s pristine surfaces, in this sweltering, pastel-colored fairy tale of class division, institutional patriarchy, and invisible violence.