Moro filmmaker shows martial law documentary in autonomous region

COTABATO CITY: The best documentary at this year’s Cinema One Originals Film Festival entitled “Forbidden Memory,” directed by multi-awarded Moro filmmaker Gutierrez “Teng” Mangansakan 2nd was shown on Friday, a day before International Human Rights Day (IHRD), at the Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Complex here.

The 96-minute documentary, dubbed as “the greatest Marcos horror story never told” in its synopsis, “summons remembrance and memories of the fateful days in September 1974 when about 1,000 men from Malisbong and neighboring villages in Palembang, Sultan Kudarat province, were killed while 3,000 women and children were forcibly taken to naval boats stationed nearby where they encountered unspeakable horror.”