High schoolers struggle with the pressure to be “pure” in this absurd coming-of-age anthology film that was made with a one-of-a-kind visual process, paired with a silent short about a young boy’s mythic love.
It’s Raining Frogs Outside (2021)
Dir. Maria Estela Paiso, 14min, DCP
In Sambal with English subtitles
The first film from a female filmmaker from the Philippines shown in the Berlinale Shorts selection, Maria Estela Paiso’s chilling fever dream finds a young woman trapped alone with her memories at the end of the world.
Dir. Maria Estela Paiso, 14min, DCP
In Sambal with English subtitles
The first film from a female filmmaker from the Philippines shown in the Berlinale Shorts selection, Maria Estela Paiso’s chilling fever dream finds a young woman trapped alone with her memories at the end of the world.
Nervous Translation (2017)
Dir. Shireen Seno, 90min
With Jana Agoncillo, Angge Santos, Sid Lucero.
In Filipino with English subtitles
“at once a powerful rite-of-passage drama and an allegory about the uncertainty of life in the Philippines in the late 1980s”—The Hollywood Reporter
Shy and lonely, eight-year-old Yael occupies herself with writing, listening to letters from her absent father, and losing herself in flights of fancy. While the adults around her struggle with building a new way of life after 20 years of Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship, Yael hears about a miracle pen that can translate the thoughts and feelings of nervous people and promises her a “wonderful life.” Playing Yael’s innocence against the political and emotional turmoil of the adult world around her, Shireen Seno’s experimental, beautifully composed drama invites audiences into a world both real and imagined, full of wondrous possibilities and looming threats.
Dir. Shireen Seno, 90min
With Jana Agoncillo, Angge Santos, Sid Lucero.
In Filipino with English subtitles
“at once a powerful rite-of-passage drama and an allegory about the uncertainty of life in the Philippines in the late 1980s”—The Hollywood Reporter
Shy and lonely, eight-year-old Yael occupies herself with writing, listening to letters from her absent father, and losing herself in flights of fancy. While the adults around her struggle with building a new way of life after 20 years of Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship, Yael hears about a miracle pen that can translate the thoughts and feelings of nervous people and promises her a “wonderful life.” Playing Yael’s innocence against the political and emotional turmoil of the adult world around her, Shireen Seno’s experimental, beautifully composed drama invites audiences into a world both real and imagined, full of wondrous possibilities and looming threats.
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