“REquieme!” by Loy Arcenas is a finalist in the New Breed full length feature category of 2012 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival starring Shamaine Buencamino as Swanie and Anthony Falcon as Joanna.

SYNOPSIS

Circus hijinks surround the barangay of Sta. Maria in the midst of an international murder sensation. Swanie, Sta. Maria’s barangay chair and a distant relative of the killer, tries to gain political points by staging a wake for the criminal-turned-celebrity. Meanwhile in faraway Manila, Joanna, Swanie’s runaway son, navigates his way through labyrinthine bureaucracy, to give a neighbor a proper burial. (Read the rest at: http://www.cinemalaya.org/film_requieme.htm)