The daughter of a circumciser rebels and challenges the status quo when she is asked to take over her father's job.
Direction
Kanakan-Balintagos wields silence like a weapon—every pause wounds.
Acting
Desiree del Valle's rebellion lives in her eyes before her mouth.
Director
Kanakan-Balintagos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kanakan-Balintagos (formerly Auraeus Solito) is a Palaw'an indigenous filmmaker; this work interrogates Filipino rites of passage through a decolonized, feminist lens rarely seen in Philippine cinema.
The Tagalog title 'Tuli' carries dual meaning—circumcision and being 'cut off,' echoing the protagonist's severance from both tradition and her own body.
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