film

On The President's Orders

Bertha Journalism

Director

James Jones

Director

Oliver Sarbil

 

Production support

 

The searing story of President Duterte's bloody campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines, told with unprecedented and intimate access to both sides of the war - a kill squad in the Manila police, and an ordinary family from the slum. Shot over almost a year, the film will forensically investigate a murky world where crime, drugs and politics meet in a deathly embrace - and reveal that although the police have been publicly ordered to stop extra-judicial killings, the executions continue.