The pigs die first. In a Tondo slaughterhouse, they hang upside down while workers slit their throats. Nobody looks away. Suffering here is ordinary. Then we are introduced to a young woman victimised by the same casual brutality. Raped by her mother’s lover, betrayed by her mother, abandoned by her boyfriend, Insiang arrives at a single conclusion: no one can solve her problems but her. The first Filipino film screened in Cannes. It premiered in the Philippines in 1976 but was shown in the Directors’ Fortnight section in 1978. It screened again at Cannes in 2015 in the Classics section, restored.