Batch ’81 was an dramatic Filipino film directed by Mike de Leon. It tells the story of seven neophytes undergoing torturous hazing rituals to be accepted into Alpha Kappa Omega, the "best fraternity" on their university campus. Their brotherhood is put to the ultimate test when conflicts arise with a rival fraternity. The film has been selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival’s Director Fortnight.

 

The restoration of Batch ‘81 was made possible through the use of the 35mm original camera negative, a positive print and the original sound negative from the Asian Film Archive Collection preserved at the vaults of the National Archives of Singapore. The film’s director Mike de Leon and the film’s cinematographer, Rody Lacap, supervised the color grading.

In a Dutch camp during the war of national independence in the Indonesian archipelago, a number of fighters are taken prisoners. Parman become chess playmate of Koenen, a young Dutch officer, in order to gather some information. He found out about the plan of death penalty for two fellow inmates. Parman makes an escape plan for them. One manages to get away, but the other one gets shot. Tension among the inmates escalates as they suspect Parman of betraying them on purpose by feeding information to Koenen. 

 

 

The restoration of Barb Wired Fence is done mainly using a vintage positive copy which survives without its opening or end title sequence. The original negative has not been found. These surviving reels are showing advanced deterioration and they have severe physical damage due to projection use. Physical repair was done to prepare the reels for digital acquisitions. The reels were scanned in 2K resolution, digitally cleaned and restored. The restoration result was produced as digital file in 2K resolution.

Insiang directed by Lino Brocka is the first Filipino film officially selected into Cannes Film Festival in Director’s Fortnight. The film tells the story of a young woman who is raped by her mother’s new boyfriend. Her boyfriend betrays her after she has sex with him. Consequently, shedecides to take matters into her own hands. 

 

The restoration was funded by Film Development Council of the Philippines and Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project. The restoration was also selected into the Cannes Classics.