Insiang

Lina Brocka's  1976 film Insiang is included in Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 2 and is notable for the depiction of the slums of Manila in the Philippines. It seems that most of the films that were coming out of the Philippines at that time were escapist rather than realistic. The story is somewhat melodramatic, with a story about a love triangle between a woman and her mother and her younger lover. However, the film has a somewhat surprising ending. However, the fact that it was filmed on location in the slums of Manila gives it a sort of gritty realism despite the melodramatic soap opera-ish plot. It was said that Brocka worked very quickly like Fassbinder and this production was the first Philippines film screened at the Cannes Film Festival.