Cavite

Writers-directors-producers Neill dela Llana and Ian Gamazon shot this microbudget thriller, steeped in hot-button issues of cultural identity, social responsibility and the roots of guerilla-style terrorism in the slums of Manila and nearby Cavite City. San Diego security guard Adam (Gamazon), a secular Muslim born in the predominantly Catholic Philippines, is eking out a living as a security guard and weathering a relationship crisis with his newly pregnant girlfriend (Dominique Gonzalez) when he gets a call from home: His father has been killed in a terrorist attack on a public bus, and Adam's mother and sister expect him to return for the funeral. But no one meet...