The helmer (billed onscreen, per usual, as Brillante Ma. Mendoza) last hit the Lido in ... Cannes prizewinner “Kinatay.” Similarly, “Thy Womb,” which has more in common stylistically ...

More upsetting than the unexpected bursts of violence that interrupt Thy Womb is Shaleha’s calm acceptance of her own degradation. Mendoza ameliorates the frightening possibility of a terrorist ...

MANILA, Philippines – I was not a big fan of Brillante Mendoza’s earlier works. But the last two films — Captive with French actress Isabelle Huppert and Thy Womb with Nora Aunor (both ...

“Thy Womb,” Brillante Mendoza’s critically acclaimed and award-winning film, tells the story of a Tausug midwife who copes ...

Mendoza claimed MANILA, Philippines – “Thy Womb” director Brillante Mendoza appealed to the many fans of actress Nora Aunor for them to go watch the film even if it is being showed in only 2 ...

MANILA, Philippines—The arrival of director Brillante Mendoza, Nora Aunor and other members of the team behind the much-awarded “Thy Womb” are expected at 4:35 pm Tuesday at the Naia ...

Brillante "Dante" Mendoza’s “Thy Womb” (Sinapupunan), a film about a Badjao midwife (Nora Aunor) coping with her own infertility, got a standing ovation when it opened at the 69th Venice International ...

MANILA, Philippines—Filipino filmmaker Brillante Mendoza’s “Thy Womb” is included in the main competition lineup of the 69th Venice International Film Festival, which will run from Augus ...

The helmer (billed onscreen, per usual, as Brillante Ma. Mendoza) last hit the Lido in ... Cannes prizewinner “Kinatay.” Similarly, “Thy Womb,” which has more in common stylistically ...

it’s tempting to call “Thy Womb” the gentlest film to date from hard-working Filipino provocateur Brillante Mendoza. Then one remembers that it opens with a live human birthing and ...

Director Brillante Mendoza divided Cannes audiences in 2009 with the stylish but violent ‘Kinatay’, but ‘Thy Womb’ combines his eye for bizarre detail and inventive camera angles with an ...