A father, a daughter, and one airport bench where strangers become family.
Kaye arrives at the airport in Pampanga where she waits for her estranged father to fetch her. Arriving late, her father tells her they have to wait for another arrival later that day. In those first few hours they spend together, how do they both attempt to get to know each other?
Acting
Elora Españo's face does what pages of dialogue cannot.
Direction
Tayag turns an airport into a whole emotional landscape.
Writing
Conversations that sound stolen from real life.
Director
Gabrielle Patrice Tayag
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film uses the actual Pampanga airport's sparse, liminal architecture as a metaphor for their relationship: functional but unfinished, connecting places without being one.
Director Gabrielle Patrice Tayag was only 22 when this debuted at Cinemalaya, making her one of the youngest to tackle the 'absent OFW father' trope with such restraint.
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