Here is the trailer for Filipiñana, a film about Isabel, a 17-year-old girl from the rural north of the Philippines who finds herself working on the posh greens of an exclusive and mysterious golf course just outside of the bustling Manila.
Written and directed by Rafael Manuel, the film stars Jorrybell Agoto, Carmen Castellanos, Teroy Guzman, Carlitos Siguion-Reyna, Isabel Sicat, and Nour Hooshmand.
Filipiñana premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2026, where it won a Special Jury Award for Creative Vision, and will be released in theaters on August 28 at Film Forum in New York and on September 4 at Laemmle Glendale in Los Angeles, as well as select theaters nationwide.
Here is the synopsis: Isabel, a 17-year-old from the rural north of the Philippines, works at a posh country club outside Manila. Amid stifling heat and pervasive drought, she lines up golf balls for powerful men to drive into the carefully manicured verdant horizon. Between shifts, she wanders the immaculate grounds, sampling its luxuries and exploring its liminal spaces. The club’s members, including an industrialist and his expatriate niece, the president and his pampered wife, and a slew of Chinese tourists, engage in a complex dance with the doting and subservient staff. But something is rotting beneath the pristine fairways of the elite resort, as Isabel discovers when she tries to return a mislaid golf club to its patriarchal director, Dr. Palanca. The deeper she journeys into its most exclusive corners, the closer she gets to the violent truths of the club, her native Philippines, and her own past.
Watch the trailer for Filipiñana above.
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