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DAVAO CITY—Nine
Mindanao films will join the Kontra Agos Film Festival
at Indie Sine in Robinsons Galleria, Ortigas Center,
this week, the news agency MindaNews reported. The
festival is on December 5 and 6.
The
films will feature the many aspects of the Moro
struggle, and of common life in Mindanao, including
advocacies for peace and good governance.
In its
Friday edition, MindaNews said the following will be
participating:
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Adjani
Arumpac’s full-length documentary Walai, on the
memories of four Muslim women who once lived in the
infamous “White House” in
Cotabato
City.
“The documentary seeks narratives in places...we tend to
feel without history. It traces the past through the
women’s experience of what has happened inside the
wrecked home—nostalgia and fear, loss and love, and
birth and death,” the MindaNews said.
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Gutierrez Mangansakan II’s full-length documentary
The Jihadist, an autobiographical account of the
filmmaker’s struggle as an artist amid the backdrop of
the Islamic revolution in Mindanao. “His search for his
rightful place in the memory of his homeland yields
questions that require him to confront his identity as a
Moro and come to terms with his homosexuality.”
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Salam
Mindanao
is a package of seven short films shot in the Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM): “Tranquil Times” by
Loren Lao (documentary); “George’s Town” by Moises
Charles Hollite (documentary); “Sulu” by Al Jacinto
(documentary); “Biniton” by McRobert Nacrio (narrative);
“A Step for My Dream” by Mona Labado (narrative);
“Angan-Angan” [Dreams] (feature); and “Pulubi” by
Eduardo Vasquez Jr. (documentary).
“Tranquil Times” tackles the efforts at good governance
of the private and local government unit of Wao, Lanao
del Sur, “to erase remnants of the religious and ethnic
clashes of the 1970s.”
“George’s Town” shows the daily life of an evacuee in
the town of Buluan, Maguindanao, as a result of the
“all-out war” in 2000.
“Sulu”
by journalist Al Jacinto is a film about a young writer
born of a Muslim mother who decides to visit Sulu
despite the presence of Muslim guerrillas and Abu Sayyaf
terrorists. There he meets a former Muslim
guerrilla-turned-policeman who also narrates his life
story and how he got separated from his family for more
than a decade.
“Biniton” is a story about cooking a native preparation
called biniton as it portrays the hardship of a
family in armed conflict in the community of Saniag,
Ampatuan.
“A Step
for My Dream” is a narrative on seven-year-old Abdul
,who dreams of becoming a leader of his town in Paglat,
Maguindanao. “He has natural charisma and easily becomes
friends with people even if he hasn’t known them for
long. But his grandmother reminds him of their peasant
roots which is no match to the traditional ruling
family,” according to MindaNews.
“Angan-Angan” by Sheon Dayoc is a feature on a mute
nine-year-old girl whose “determination to secure a good
education reverberates clearly amid the strictures of
her Yakan culture.”
“Pulubi”
is a documentary on the transformation of Upi, Shariff
Kabunsuan, as seen through the metamorphosis of a
beggar. |
