He came to forgive her. She thinks he's her dead lover. Awkward.
A young Filipino man learns to be the caregiver of his abusive grandmother who suffers from dementia, only to be mistaken as her old lover.
Cinematography
16mm film grain adds dreamy, unreliable memory texture.
Acting
Lucita Arriaga's dementia performance is devastatingly precise.
Writing
Twisted premise turns abuse into absurd, painful comedy.
Director
Luke Lace
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely on 16mm film, which director Luke Lace chose specifically because the format's imperfections mirror dementia's fragmented recall.
The title 'Fidel' references both the grandmother's lost lover and the Filipino value of utang na loob—debt of gratitude that binds Rome to her care despite everything.
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