A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
(Maiclin Pelicula Nang Ysang Indio Nacional)

Set in the 1890s, this black-and-white silent movie tells of the bloody emergence of the philippines from Spanish rule. The flm tells the stories of a child church bell-ringer, torn between his duties to the Spanish state and as a Filipino, a pubescent caught in the growing pressures of the revolution and an actor escaping his troubled soul.