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Filipiñana

Date & Time

Fri. Oct. 23, 2026 7 PM-9 PM
Sat. Oct. 24, 2026 2 PM-4 PM

Location Main Campus | Kinder Building

Parking at Kinder Garage
Drop off at Kinder Building

Film Information

Theater Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital
Directed by Rafael Manuel
Year 2026
Length 115 minutes
Country Singapore / UK / Philippines / Netherlands / France
Language Filipino and English with English subtitles

Call for Questions 713-639-7531

Email Your Questions [email protected]

Filipiñana

Date & Time

Fri. Oct. 23, 2026 7 PM-9 PM
Sat. Oct. 24, 2026 2 PM-4 PM

Location Main Campus | Kinder Building

Parking at Kinder Garage
Drop off at Kinder Building

Film Information

Theater Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital
Directed by Rafael Manuel
Year 2026
Length 115 minutes
Country Singapore / UK / Philippines / Netherlands / France
Language Filipino and English with English subtitles
Filmmaker Rafael Manuel plumbs the depths of Filipino identity and national consciousness in his original drama that earned a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Set entirely on a golf course–a microcosm of the Philippines, according to Manuel–the film follows Isabel and other young women hospitality workers, detailing class disparities, misogyny, and post-colonial power structures in ways that are profoundly unsettling. The New Yorker called it “a masterwork . . . Manuel opens new vistas in the history of cinema.”
 
Screened as part of Filipino American History Month.

Tickets
  • $9 general admission; $7 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+)
Plan Your Visit

Call for Questions 713-639-7531

Email Your Questions [email protected]

Community partner: Filipino American National Historical Society - Houston, TX 
 
Underwriting for the Film Department is provided by Tenaris and American Friends of Fundacion Proa Inc., The Robert Frank Foundation, Nina and Michael Zilkha, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Houston, Laurence P. Unger and Ben Hobratsch, and the Vaughn Foundation.
 
Generous funding is provided by the Foundation for Independent Media Arts; Lois Chiles; Franci Neely; Joanie Patrick and Stephen Bettencourt; Ellen A. Yarrell; and ILEX Foundation.