Up to 30,000 people have died in Philippines’ drug war led by former President Rodrigo Duterte.
The cleric Flavie Villanueva exhumes the dead. Pathologist Raquel Fortun autopsies the bones. Together they fight against oblivion and for justice.
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Up to 30,000 people have died in the drug war waged by former President Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines. Filipino cleric Flavie Villanueva exhumes drug war dead. In doing so, he hopes to secure evidence for possible trials against Filipino police officers and the government at the International Criminal Court. As an ally at his side is the pathologist Raquel Fortun. She autopsies the bones. Again and again it happens that the actual cause of death contradicts the official autopsy report.
As in the case of Constantino de Juan. His relatives are listed as witnesses at the International Criminal Court because their daughter Christine witnessed her father’s murder. The film accompanies Villanueva to the cemeteries of Manila and the morgue of Dr. Fortun and lets witnesses speak.
Villanueva’s goal is to “determine how these people were killed and bring justice to them and their families after the fact.”
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