6.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Drama, Mystery • 2026 • 101 min
Filipiñana (2026)
Filipiñana (2026)
Overview
Filipiñana follows Isabel, a 17-year-old Ilocana working as a tee girl at a Manila-area country club, as she uncovers what festers beneath the polished lawns of elite Philippine leisure. The mystery-drama uses its country club setting as a pressure cooker for class tension, patriarchal power, and the colonial residue still embedded in Philippine social hierarchies. A rural teenage girl serving wealthy members is already a loaded image. When she stumbles into the club president's world, the film leans into systemic critique over individual drama. That sustained focus on structural inequality, entrenched privilege, and a young woman navigating a world built to exclude her earns the Leans Progressive label.
Starring Cast
Jorrybell Agoto • Carmen Castellanos • Teroy Guzman
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
6.9
Overview
Filipiñana follows Isabel, a 17-year-old Ilocana working as a tee girl at a Manila-area country club, as she uncovers what festers beneath the polished lawns of elite Philippine leisure. The mystery-drama uses its country club setting as a pressure cooker for class tension, patriarchal power, and the colonial residue still embedded in Philippine social hierarchies. A rural teenage girl serving wealthy members is already a loaded image. When she stumbles into the club president's world, the film leans into systemic critique over individual drama. That sustained focus on structural inequality, entrenched privilege, and a young woman navigating a world built to exclude her earns the Leans Progressive label.
Starring Cast
Jorrybell Agoto • Carmen Castellanos • Teroy Guzman
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
Political: Strong Left
Confidence: Medium
A young tee girl at a Philippine country club uncovers violent truths and systemic rot beneath the pristine surfaces of elite leisure, exposing entrenched class divides, patriarchal control, and the lingering effects of colonialism.
Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: Medium
Filipiñana follows a rural teenage girl working as a tee girl at an exclusive Manila-area golf club, where she uncovers layers of class hierarchy and patriarchal control beneath the surface of wealthy leisure.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: Medium
Filipiñana centers its story on workplace hierarchies and social dynamics at a golf club, with family elements appearing only peripherally through an uncle's efforts to draw his niece into the family business.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
Filipiñana follows a teenage tee girl navigating class tensions and labor at an exclusive Philippine golf club, with its narrative centered on social inequity and no LGBTQ+ characters or themes present.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
Filipiñana follows a young caddie navigating class divides and hidden power structures at an exclusive Philippine country club, with no transgender characters or themes present in the narrative.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low
Filipiñana centers on an original teenage protagonist named Isabel working at a country club, with no established characters from prior source material or historical records reimagined in a different gender.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
Filipiñana is an original story set in the Philippines with no source material or prior canon depicting characters of a different race. The cast and setting remain consistent with the established Filipino context throughout.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low
Not depicted.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.5
6.0
Critic Ratings
N/A
8.2
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