Nine features and a program of shorts from the Philippines, most of them receiving their Chicago premieres, will be shown at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton, Friday through Thursday, January 5 through 11. This festival is being presented by Facets Multimedia in cooperation with the AMAUAN Filipino-American MultiArts Center in New York. Admission to each program is $5, $3 for Facets members. For further information call 281-9075.
TURUMBA Kidlat Tahimik’s film of 1981 has been described as “an ironic, comic comment on the corrupting touch of Western mass marketing techniques as well as on the virtues of small-town self-reliance.” (6:00)
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MONDAY, JANUARY 8
BRUTAL Marilou Diaz-Abaya’s 1981 feature on the status of women in the Philippines follows a female journalist investigating the case of a repressed wife who kills her sadistic husband. With Amy Austria, Charo Santos, and Gina Alajar. (9:00)
PRIVATE SHOW See listing under Sunday, January 7. (6:30)
