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Tuos: Breaking the line between old and new

23 Tuesday Aug 2016

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2016, Barbie Forteza, best film, cinemalaya, Cinemalaya 2016, film review, independent film, indie film, Laut, Mariquina, Movie review, Nora Aunor, Roderick Cabrido, Tuos

By Engelbert Rafferty Dulay

Traditions are vital for retaining cultural and national identity. This is the reason why we cling onto them despite being archaic and obsolete. In Roderick Cabrido’s Tuos, two women are both entangled in the constricting confinements of their culture. They are in the crossfire between modernity and tradition.

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Laut: Diving into a sea of emotions

10 Thursday Mar 2016

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Ana Capri, Badjao, Barbie Forteza, drama, film review, Laut, Luisito Ignacio, Mabalacat, movie revew, Pampanga, poverty, Sama D'laut, Singkuwento International Film Festival

By Heinrich Domingo

When you fear and feel powerless, create an art work they say. Shout your advocacy through artistry, through beauty, through cinema. But what if, you cannot comprehend art. What is artistic expression to you if you are hungry in the middle of the night, if you are landless all your life, if you have to watch your sick children die? They are the Sama D’laut group, the subject of Director Luisito Ignacio’s film Laut. Seen on the big screen is the reeking condition of a displaced community and their constant fight to continue living.

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