The Garden of Earthly Delights
Morgan Knibbe / NL, BE, PH, 2025 / 124 min.
Eleven-year-old Ginto is struggling to survive in the slums of Manilla: as a gangster if necessary. Ginto’s life doesn’t get any easier after he meets a Dutch (sex) tourist. First feature-length fiction film by Morgan Knibbe (Those Who Feel the Fire Burning).
The metropolis Manilla in the Philippines shows no mercy to the poor. It’s a dog-eat-dog world, even for eleven-year-old Ginto and his sister Asia. Ginto decides that a life of crime is preferable to being dependent on handouts; much to the dismay of his sister Asia, a sex worker who’s saving up for a better life.
Knibbe’s latest film has received praise for its intense camerawork and the way the director exposes relations between the West and former colonies: everything’s for sale to those with money; inequality is the decisive economic factor.
Morgan Knibbe on Ulrich Seidl
In Eye on Art later the same day, Morgan Knibbe will be invited to talk about the work of Ulrich Seidl, and how difficult it is these days to tackle 'delicate' themes such as those taken up in Sparta and The Garden of Earthly Delights
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Director
Morgan Knibbe
Production year
2025
Country
NL, BE, PH
Original title
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Length
124 min.
Language
English, Tagalog
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Ulrich Seidl
Eye Filmmuseum presents Ulrich Seidl – Über das Leben, die Liebe und den Tod, the first exhibition – and the first complete film overview – of the renowned Austrian filmmaker in the Netherlands. Featuring a wealth of early, little-known and newly commissioned (film) works, the exhibition confronts visitors with the lives of a number of seemingly ordinary individuals, people who try to, in their own ways, make something of life in a late-capitalist society in which meaning has been replaced by consumerism.
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