15 Facts About Himala

Himala is a 1982 Filipino film directed by Ishmael Bernal and produced by the Experimental Cinema of the Philippines.

In 2012, on its 30th anniversary, Himala became the first film to be restored as part of the ABS-CBN Film Restoration Project, with a premier at the 69th Venice International Film Festival as part of the Venice Classics section.

On 11 November 2008, Himala won the Viewer's Choice Award for the Best Film of All Time from the Asia-Pacific Region in the 2008 CNN Asia Pacific Screen Awards beating nine other films voted by thousands of film fans around the world.

Himala's is assisted by her friends Chayong, Sepa, and Baldo who eventually became part of her "Seven Apostles", which later includes the entrepreneur Mrs Alba .

Himala tells the priest that he saw two drugged youths from Manila raping Elsa and Chayong on the hill of the apparitions.

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Himala's insists that medicine is just as good as the faith of people, but soon her cancer came back and eventually took her life.

Himala entered the script to a contest by the Experimental Cinema of the Philippines where it became one of the selected scripts for production.

Himala is the story of Elsa, a barrio lass whose supposed visions of the Virgin Mary change her life, turning her into an overnight sensation and causing mass hysteria in a poor, isolated northern Philippine village suffering from a drought.

Himala became a box-office hit, earning an impressive ?30 million, becoming one of the highest grossing Filipino films in the 1980s.

In 2012, coinciding with the film's 30th anniversary, Himala became the first film to be restored by the ABS-CBN Film Restoration Project with Central Digital Lab.

The digitally restored version of the Himala premiered at the 69th Venice International Film Festival as part of the Venice Classics section before being released in Philippine cinemas.

Himala has won numerous awards and distinctions in the Philippines and abroad, including Best Picture from the 1982 Metro Manila Film Festival and the 1983 Catholic Mass Media Awards.

Himala's was nominated for Best Actress at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival, where Himala vied in the prestigious competition for the Golden Bear Award.

Himala was adjudged by the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino as one of the Ten Best Films of the Decade.

Two-act musical generally follows the plot of the film, with the lyrics of the final song "Walang Himala " retaining the original text of Elsa's speech from the film.