The restored version of Mike de Leon’s “Batch ’81” will have its Philippine premiere Oct. 28, at TriNoma Cinema 2. It will be the closing film of the QCinema International Film Festival. Its world ...

Mike de Leon’s “Batch ’81,” a seminal movie on fraternities and fascism, will be restored by the Asian Film Archive (AFA) in Singapore. De Leon told the Inquirer that Karen Chan, AFA executive ...

Mike de Leon’s “Batch ’81” was a searing indictment of the violence and the brainwashing that happens behind closed doors in universities, as underground fraternities induct their clueless neophytes.

Sid Lucero, a 21-year old pre-Med student, is an aspiring neophyte of the Alpha Kappa Omega fraternity. Over a six-month initiation period, he and six other neophytes are subjected to severe physical ...