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December 18, 2020 | 12:04 am Font Size
FATHER SUAREZ played by John Arcilla in the film Father Suarez: Healing Priest
SHIFTING to an online platform may have led the annual Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) to introduce a greater variety of films for this yearâs pandemic edition. While the requisite family films such as
Magic Kingdom and
Mang Kepweng: Ang Lihim ng Bandanang Itim are still part of the programming, it has been seven years since the festival last included a biopic on a religious figure, 2013âs
Pedro Calungsod: Batang Martir. While
Pedro Calungsod tells the life (or what little is known about the life) of the second Filipino saint who lived in the 1600s, Joven Tanâs