Showing posts with label TOFARM Film Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TOFARM Film Festival. Show all posts
Sunday, 16 September 2018
Friday, 14 September 2018
Movie Review: Sol Searching
Teacher Sol is dead and cannot be buried because there are no funds. How will the community come forward to put her to rest, this strict and no-nonsense teacher of grade school students and farmers who need to be taught scientific farming methods?
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Saturday, 8 September 2018
Thursday, 6 September 2018
Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Thursday, 15 March 2018
Saturday, 19 August 2017
Movie Review: Paglipay
The
film focuses on Atan, an Aeta from Baytan village in Zambales, who
makes a living from traditional farming system kaingin and hunting on
the foothills of Mt. Pinatubo. The narrative opens as we follow Atan’s
fulfillment of his arranged marriage with a fellow Aeta, Ani. He has to
accomplish a number of responsibilities which includes the offering of
bandi or bride price to Ani’s parents. Atan needs to cross the mountain
river going to Banwa, the town where he could earn the necessary amount
for the bride price. In order to find a job, he needs to adapt himself
with the modern way of life in town, including change in appearance,
manner of clothing, religious practice, and even the use of different
language in order to associate himself with the Unat or “straight-haired
ones,” such as.
Movie Review: Pauwi Na
Mang
Pepe convinces the family to go back to their hometown in Bicol.
Without enough transport money, they decide to use pedicabs so they
could “pedal” their way back to the province. A series of unfortunate
events occur that will either test their determination or distract them
from their journey home. Pauwi Na is a tragic-comic portrait of a dysfunctional family and the disquieting blind faith they invoke as they dream of going home.Monday, 17 July 2017
Sunday, 16 July 2017
Movie Review: Instalado
Victor lives in a time when the dominant form of education is through installation, a process wherein bodies of knowledge can be installed directly on people's brains using technology owned by big corporations. However, like many others in the agricultural town of Porac, Victor cannot afford the sky-high cost of installation, which he believes is the key to improve his family's life. To raise money for installation, Victor abandons farming and works as the housekeep of a wealthy childhood friend who has become extremely successful after undergoing a series of installations.
Wednesday, 12 July 2017
Sunday, 9 July 2017
Movie Review: What Home Feels Like
“What Home Feels Like” tells the home life of father and seaman, Antonio, who is forced to spend most of time at home upon learning that he can never aboard a ship again. Facing struggles as he doesn’t know what to do next, he follows the footsteps of his parents and buys a farm using their family savings.
Dealing with his forced retirement gives him several realizations. Spending his last 33 years as a seaman caused him to not know his family on a personal level. What's even worse is now that he has the chance to catch up, his kids are leaving and his wife is used to living without him
Saturday, 8 July 2017
Friday, 7 July 2017
Tuesday, 4 July 2017
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