Grandma's house hits different when the river's dying and so are you.
After a long absence, a young woman returns to the home of her grandmother near the dying Pasig River. Across the generations, they discover common depths of loss and loneliness that, while shared, continue to flow as dark undercurrents in their lives. This numbing realization provides no comfort, and salt water bleeds into the black water of the Pasig.
Cinematography
The Pasig River is basically a character. Gorgeously bleak.
Acting
Che Ramos carries centuries of silence in her shoulders.
Director
Janus Victoria
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Janus Victoria made this as a USC thesis project, proving student films can out-grief most Oscar bait.
The real Pasig River was declared biologically dead in the 1990s; using it as metaphor layers ecological and personal collapse into one devastating image.
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