Tag: Brillante Mendoza

Director at Cannes urges Duterte to ‘change’ Philippines

CANNES, France (AFP) — Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte was challenged Wednesday to stick to his promises to tackle corruption as a powerful movie exposing police graft there premiered at the Cannes film festival. “Ma’ Rosa” — by the country’s most renowned director Brillante Mendoza — tells how police extort money from a sweetshop owner in a Manila slum after they bust her for dealing drugs, forcing her family to sell everything they have to buy […]