SM ClTY SAN JOSE DEL MONTE Presents

MA’ ROSA A film by Brillante MA. Mendoza

Ma’ Rosa is a 2016 Filipino drama film directed by Brillante Mendoza, and was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, wherein, Jacklyn Jose portraying the character of Rosa won the Best Actress Award. Ma’ Rosa was also selected as the Filipino entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards.

Rosa, owns a small community convenient store connected to their home in the slums of Metropolitan Manila. Together with her husband, Nestor, they use their convenient store as a cover-up for selling illegal narcotic, Methamphetamines. Their fate changes when their neighbor set them up for a police raid leading to the couple’s arrest; a ploy for extortion. Backed against the wall, Rosa seeks help from her children, Jackson, Raquel, and Kerwin as they do the daunting task to buy their parent’s freedom.