Marrakech – The 22nd Marrakech International Film Festival presents “First Light,” a provocative debut feature from Filipino-Australian filmmaker James J. Robinson that examines faith through postcolonial perspectives.
The 118-minute drama, screening in official competition, follows an elderly nun whose witness to a tragic accident forces her to confront institutional corruption within the Catholic Church.
Robinson, a 29-year-old artist whose photography has appeared in The New York Times and Vogue, marks his transition from visual arts to cinema with this Tagalog-language film. Set in a decaying convent in the mountains of Luzon, “First Light” stars Ruby Ruiz as Sister Yolanda, a middle-aged nun whose faith crumbles after witnessing a construction worker’s death.
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The narrative tackles deeply sensitive themes of faith, institutional corruption, and postcolonial trauma through indigenous Philip
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