A daughter digs through her country's buried sins—and her own.
A Filipina immigrant from Australia returns home to search for the remains of her parents, who worked in the nationalist movement as doctors and were murdered by a para-military group in Mindanao.
Direction
Mardoquio's patient, unflinching gaze on political ghosts.
Acting
Sue Prado's restrained grief carries entire histories.
Cinematography
Mindanao landscapes as both beauty and burial ground.
Director
Arnel Mardoquio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title refers to a specific massacre site in Mindanao, part of a larger pattern of extrajudicial killings during Filipino counterinsurgency campaigns that remain underreported internationally.
Mardoquio shot this with non-professional actors from actual affected communities; several crew members had direct family ties to disappeared activists. The film's 73-minute runtime was a deliberate constraint—anything longer felt exploitative.
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