Oca

Lino Brocka

A condemned man reads a newspaper. A blind girl needs corneas. He decides she deserves his. What he does not know is whose child she is. When a pardon arrives, the logic becomes unbearable. Brocka spent the entire film documenting the institutions that failed the girl—the police, the newspaper that erased her mother, the hospital. No one helped when the problem was only poverty. All arrive once there’s a miracle to witness. Screens with Oca, Brocka’s UNICEF short on muro-ami—illegal fishing using child labour—alongside Godard and Jerry Lewis.

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