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“Karera” is another one-worder indie movie of Adolfo Alix, Jr. starring Rosanna Roces (Aurora, Ligaya ang Itawag Mo Sa Akin), Jay Manalo (Ang Huling Birhen sa Lupa), Joem Bascon (Batanes) and Laurice Guillen (Noon at Ngayon).

Also starring in Karera are Allan Paule, Menggie Cobarrubias, Soliman Cruz, Kristofer King, Marife Necesito, Arnold Reyes, Edgar Allan Guzman, Mercedes Cabral, Cherry Madrigal, Kenneth Ocampo, Jess Evardone and Moises Magisa.

Karera is written by Jerome David Zamora and helmed by Adolfo Borinaga Alix, Jr., director of notable films as Kalayaan, Imoral, Adela, Aurora, Daybreak, Manila, Batanes, Tambolista, Nars, Kadin and Donsol.


KARERA captures a day in the life of the Domingo family, which seems to be a microcosm of the Filipino society racing against time and opportunity as they gamble with their personal choices in a series of complicated moral, spiritual, political and social issues.

The mother, LV (Guillen), runs a “bookies” (an illegal horse race betting outlet) in their house. Today, the money she is supposed-to-remit is missing. She struggles to look for the missing money and traces who might get hold of it. Ace (Manalo), LV’s eldest, who works as a “sota” (horse caretaker) is torn between pursuing an illegal arrangement with one of the other trainors to injure the horse he takes care of in exchange for a hefty sum of money that he can use for his placement fee. Daisy (Roces), the matriarch’s daughter, is running away from policemen after an arrangement that she needs to pinpoint all the other illegal karera outlets to spare her family. Bingo (Bascon), their youngest, is impatiently waiting for his girlfriend to have sex with him after a bet with his friends.

What happens is a raw and gritty drama of human survival.