Kontra-Agos

A Resistance Films Festival

Robinson's Galleria, IndieSine
Quezon City, The Philppines
December 5-11, 2007

Lunes ng Hapis [Mondays of Sorrow (English Title)]

Directed By: Nick Olanka

Virgie and Ismael are lovers in the midst of a military offensive in Sta. Filomena, a town in Southern Luzon suspected of being overrun by rebels. Virgie is a teacher of a local elementary school and Ismael is a captain of the troop assigned to infiltrate the rebels. Every Monday they meet and make love passionately and violently. One day, Virgie's student Tikoy asks her to help find his missing father, Mang Lino, a rumoured rebel sympathizer. Events unfold and point to Ismael as being responsible for Mang Lino's disappearance, because of this Virgie is overwhelmed by guilt. The next Monday, as they make love Virgie chooses between her love for Ismael and her love for her community.

Biography of the Director

Born in 1982, Nick Joseph Olanka graduated in 2006 from the U.P. Film Institute. Active in the theater arts through the group The UP Repertory Company, he took cinematography classes in Mowelfund Film Institute. Currently training under Marilou Diaz-Abaya under Star Cinema's directors training program.

"Monday of Sorrow" is his graduation film. In July 2006, his first feature film "Ang Huling Araw ng Linggo" (The Last Sunday) competed in the Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival and will be in the theaters nationwide in the Philippines from March 28, 2007.