Surprise Inspection

An experimental documentary following director Benitez's meeting with another Lorenzo Benitez whom he had ironically friended on Facebook.

Lawrence and Jaime were best friends in high school, but attend university on opposite sides of the globe. After four years apart, they reunite for a hedonistic week in Manila, Jaime’s hometown, untouched by Duterte’s War on Drugs but unable to escape nostalgia and ennui. Shot in one of Asia’s fastest growing megacities, An Unscripted Earth is an award-winning film about memory, young adulthood, and the uncertain future of our globalised world.

The impunity of Franco’s dictatorship in the former Spanish Guinea persists to this day. The regime concealed its crimes against the political independence movement in the late 1950s. One of its main leaders, Acacio Mañé, was arrested and forcibly disappeared. Sixty years later, two men take up the investigation of the case.