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The title character in “Bona,” a stark tale of selfless devotion by the Filipino director and prominent political activist Lino Brocka (1939-1991)fc188, is a middle-class Manila schoolgirl who develops a fierce, morbid attachment to a narcissistic m

The restored classic starring National Artist Nora Aunor, which returned to Cannes this year, is finally screening locally Lino Brocka’s “Bona” was screened at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Festival de Cannes in 1981 a year after the Nora Aunor-led