User:NyanThousand/The Guerrilla is a Poet

The Guerilla is a Poet is a 2013 Filipino film directed by Sari Lluch Dalena and Kiri Lluch Dalena. The story follows Jose Maria Sison (Karl Medina) from his founding of the Communist Party of the Philippines up to his arrest during Martial Law.

Scenes were primarily filmed in Pakil, Laguna and Quezon City, interspersed with interviews from Sison and his wife Julie de Lima, who are in exile in Utrecht throughout 2012. The film first debuted as an entry at the 2013 CineFilipino festival, where it garnered awards for Best Actor (Karl Medina), Best Supporting Actor (Bong Cabrera), and Best Film Editing.> Sari and Kiri Dalena also won the Best Director award at the 2017 International Film Festival Manhattan.

Plot
The film begins with Jose Maria Sison celebrating his 74th birthday exiled in the Netherlands. Interviews with Sison and his wife Julie are cut with flashbacks depicting their lives as young activists and revolutionaries during Martial Law.

The story follows Sison, then a prominent activist, in founding the Communist Party of the Philippines, meeting Bernabe Buscayno and founding the New People's Army, and his years underground during Martial Law. The story also follows other people.

Eventually, Sison, De Lima, and their comrades are arrested while in a safehouse. Sison is presented to Ferdinand Marcos before being locked in solitary confinement.