Esoterica: Manila
Nov 09, 2014 | IMDB 0
99 min Watch NowDrama
Drawing from his personal adventures, film director, Elwood Perez veers away from standard-issue plot conventions in this paradoxically moral tale of a young man en route to becoming a creative artist.
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