Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis

Star Cinema brings the Berlinale Film Festival Silver Bear Awardee film "Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis" closer to the Filipino audiences by staging a nationwide screening of the movie starting Black Saturday, March 26. Hele is an 8 hour long epic movie directed by the internationally acclaimed director Lav Diaz and stars two of ABSCBN's premiere leading men Piolo Pascual and John Lloyd Cruz. 

Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro is considered to be one of the most influential proponents in the struggle against Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines during the late nineteenth century. Today, he is still celebrated as the father of the Philippine Revolution. Director Lav Diaz examines this myth and undertakes another expedition into the eventful history

of his native land. The film’s various loosely interwoven narrative threads are held together by an exploration of the role of the individual in history and their involvement in political and social developments. Bonifacio’s widow is searching for her husband’s missing dead body; as she and her followers stumble deeper into the jungle, they become entangled in the dense thicket of their own guilt and responsibility. The Spanish governor tries to play off the various rebel factions and their utopian visions against each other. At the same time, a badly wounded companion of Bonifacio reflects upon the victims a revolution inevitably creates. The film’s high-contrast black-and-white photography makes the journey into the past abstract. Mythology, facts and a vibrant sense of history merge.

Piolo plays the role of Crisostomo Ibarra/Simoun, while JLC play the role of Isagani. Both characters came from Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, other cast includes Hazel Orencio as Oryang , Alessandra De Rossi as Cesaria Belarmino, Susan Africa as Aling Hule, Sid Lucero as Basilio, Angel Aquino, Bernardo Bernardo, and Cherie Gil portrays the role of Tikbalang. 

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As of March 14, 2016 here are the cinemas that will screen the movie 

Glorietta: Php 500 
Trinoma: Php 500
Market Market: Php 400
Fairview Terraces: Php 400
SM North EDSA: Php 400
SM Megamall: Php 400
SM Centerpoint: Php 400
SM Manila: Php 400 
SM Fairview: Php 400 
Greenhills Promenade: Php 400 
KCC General Santos: Php 300
Robinsons Metro East: Php 300
Robinsons Galleria: Php 300
Robinsons Iloilo: Php 300
Robinsons Bacolod: Php 300
Gaisano Davao: Php 150
Gaisano Tagum City: Php 150
Screenville Tagbilaran

FDCP Cinematique

TM Kalaw
Baguio 
Iloilo
Davao 

Update As of March 16: 

Newport Mall: Php 500
Lucky Chinatown: Php 400
Uptown Cinemas: Php 500 

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