“Ang Manananggal sa Unit 23B,” for which Prime Cruz won best director in 2016’s QCinema Film Festival will finally be shown commercially as one of the featured movies in the first Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino, scheduled from August 16 to 22.

The film takes a different approach in telling the tale of the manananggal—a mythical creature of Filipino folklore usually described as a woman capable of severing her upper body from her lower half and then taking flight with huge bat-like wings. It stars Ryza Cenon and Gawad Urian Best Supporting actor, Martin del Rosario.

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