SISA | HILDA KORONEL

 

SISA

 

World Premiere at the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (BNFF) or (PÖFF - Pimedate Ööde filmifestival)
Official Selection – Competition | Drama, Thriller | Philippines

 

Her silence was survival. 

Her madness, a weapon. 

Her mission: revenge.

 

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (BNFF / PÖFF) proudly presents the world premiere of SISA, the highly anticipated return of Philippine cinema legend Hilda Koronel, directed by multi-award-winning filmmaker Jun Robles Lana (About Us But Not About Us).

 

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF)

 

Festival Details

 

🗓 November 7–23, 2025
📍 Tallinn, Estonia

 

29th Edition | Official Selection – Competition
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Themes: Violence, Abuse, War, Women, Tragedy

 

The Philippines, 1902. A land still bleeding from war — raw, wounded, occupied. Smoke clings to the trees. Blood seeps into the soil. The fighting has ended, but the violence has not. Villages echo with grief, widows fill the streets, and mothers disappear into silence.

 

Among them wanders Sisa (portrayed by the legendary Hilda Koronel), barefoot and broken, dismissed as mad by those who fear what they cannot understand. But her madness is only the mask. Beneath the rags and ramblings lives a woman with a mission — a spy, a survivor, and a mother stripped of everything but rage.

 

Haunted by visions she cannot silence, Sisa quietly rallies women who, like her, have been pushed to the margins. Together, they become an invisible force — a resistance born not from power, but from pain. As betrayal coils around her, Sisa walks the knife’s edge between memory and madness, asking what it takes to rise when the world has already buried you.

 

A Cinematic Return

 

After the international acclaim of About Us But Not About Us, acclaimed filmmaker Jun Robles Lana returns to Tallinn with Sisa — a sweeping historical thriller infused with intimate emotion. Featuring a powerful, long-awaited comeback performance by Hilda Koronel, the film is both a gripping tale of vengeance and an urgent elegy to a nation’s silenced women.

 

A Landmark Premiere

 

Sisa will have its world premiere in the Official Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival this November in Tallinn, Estonia.

 

“I’m immensely proud to share that our film, Sisa, starring the legendary Hilda Koronel, will have its World Premiere in the Official Competition at the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival this November. It took an extraordinary team to bring this film to life, and I am deeply excited for them, and the world, to finally see it.”
— Jun Robles Lana

 

“With Sisa, we explore the mothering of a nation — the fierce, necessary commitment to teach our people how to resist and survive.”
— Jun Robles Lana

 

SISA is a haunting elegy and a call to remembrance — a film about grief, resistance, and the quiet revolutions born in the hearts of women who refuse to be silenced.

 

SISA is a story of memory and madness, of resistance and rebirth — a cinematic reminder that even in silence, women can ignite a revolution. - CIELOMAR

 

Credits

 

·         Director / Screenwriter: Jun Robles Lana

·         Cast: Hilda Koronel, Eugene Domingo, Jennica Garcia, Tanya Gomez, Angellie Sanoy, Barbara Miguel, Jorrybell Agoto, Janina Mendoza

·         Producers: Percival Intalan, Perci Intalan, Jun Robles Lana, Josabeth V. Alonzo

·         Cinematography: Carlo Canlas Mendoza, LPS

·         Production Design: Jay Lorenz Conanan

·         Editing: Lawrence Ang

·         Music: Teresa Barrozo

·         Sound: Ditoy Aguila, Lamberto Casas Jr., Alex Tomboc

·         Production: The IdeaFirst Company

·         Post-production: Quantum Films

·         Runtime: 1h 55m

·         Languages: Spanish, English, Tagalog

·         Subtitles: Estonian, English

  

Festival Link: https://poff.ee/en/film/sisa/

 

Snippet Link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPBdWbhCWvV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NGszenkxMTVkb2t0

 

Hilda Koronel Official (Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/hildakoronel.official/

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