A Short Film About the Indio Nacional

Original title: Maicling pelicula nañg ysañg Indio Nacional

97 minutes • 2005 • 6.7 Score

What follows is a black-and-white silent film set in the 1890s during the brewing Filipino revolution against Spanish colonialism. A series of tragic and comic sequences tells the Three Ages of an Indio (“common man”) as he progresses from boy bell ringer in a village church to teenage revolutionary to adult theater actor rehearsing a popular Spanish play.

Raya Martin

Director