On the President's Orders

Overview

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 - the Manila police, and an ordinary family from the slum. Shot in the style of a thriller, this observational film combines the look and feel of a narrative feature film with a real life revelatory journalistic investigation into a campaign of killings. The film uncovers 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 deaths continue.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 25, 2019

Original language

Filipino

Spoken languages

Tagalog

Production

Doc Society

Cast

Rodrigo Duterte

Director

Olivier Sarbil,James Jones

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt9338028