Winner of the Horizons Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and the official
Philippines Oscar entry for 2020, writer/director Raymund Ribay Gutierrez's feature debut Verdict is
a harrowing tale of domestic abuse in which a wife and mother finds
herself and her daughter in danger when the authorities refuse to take
action against her violently abusive husband.
Verdict is on UK VOD from March 12th.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Joy and her six-year-old daughter Angel live in Manila, with her husband, Dante, a small-time criminal. As so often in the past, Dante comes home drunk at night and brutally beats Joy. This time, he also hurts Angel. Joy grabs her daughter and flees to the local police station, to finally get him sent to jail. But Joy is to discover that the search for justice comes at a price. Her case, obstructed by corruption, bureaucracy and seemingly indifferent officials. Lacking witnesses to support her case, and her husband released back onto the street, Joy starts to feel that she and her daughter are increasingly under threat.
