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Apparition is a Philippin film of genre Drama released in USA on 10 july 2013 with Jodi Sta. Maria
Apparition (2012)
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Add to a movie listAparisyon (Apparition) is a 2012 Filipino psychological drama by Vincent Sandoval. The film is Sandoval's sophomore feature. It is a story about nuns in the period immediately preceding martial law. It is one of the official entries for the New Breed Full Length Feature Category in Cinemalaya 2012.
Aparisyon was invited to film festivals around the world, including Deauville Asian Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award. At the Hawaii International Film Festival, the film won the NETPAC Award "for its courageous exploration of religious faith, guilt and forgiveness through masterful storytelling and visual imagery". The film was also nominated for the New Currents Award at the 2012 Busan International Film Festival.
^ "Cinemalaya 2012". Retrieved 2012-07-20.
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Set in 1971, the sisters of the Adoration monastery in a remote town in Rizal lead quiet and peaceful lives. Remy (Mylene Dizon), an extern nun or someone who is able to leave the monastery from time to time to do errands for the nuns, learns from her mother that her activist brother is missing. She asks Mother Superior Ruth (Cuyugan-Asensio) for an indefinite leave of absence to help her family search for her brother. When her request is turned down, she starts secretly attending meetings of families with missing relatives. Lourdes (Jodi Sta. Maria), who joined the monastery just recently, decides to become an extern too to go with Remy to attend a meeting. They fall victim to violence on their way back.Actors
Jodi Sta. Maria
(Sister Lourdes)
Mylene Dizon
(Sister Remy)
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