Winner of Best Film in the full-length feature category, as much as of the Netpac Award and Best Supporting Actress Award for Dolly de Leon at the Cinemalaya 2023, “Missing” is also the official Filipino entry for the 2024 Oscars, and an animation that manages to truly stand out due to a number of reasons.
Eric is a young man working as an animator in the Philippines. His life is fairly normal, with him retaining a cramped apartment, a friend which seems to also be something more for him, and a mother who loves him, in the face of Rosalinda. However, Eric is also not only mute, but actually has no mouth at all. When one day, his mother asks him to check on his uncle, Eric finds him dead for days, and his shock leads him again into the nightmare of his childhood years, involving an alien who repeatedly abducts him.
Eric is a young man working as an animator in the Philippines. His life is fairly normal, with him retaining a cramped apartment, a friend which seems to also be something more for him, and a mother who loves him, in the face of Rosalinda. However, Eric is also not only mute, but actually has no mouth at all. When one day, his mother asks him to check on his uncle, Eric finds him dead for days, and his shock leads him again into the nightmare of his childhood years, involving an alien who repeatedly abducts him.
- 12/2/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Children in poverty have long since been a staple of cinema. Stories have often focused on their hardships in different parts of the world. Director Kohki Hasei has told of street children in his short films before and for his feature debut “Blanka”, a co-production between Japan and Philippines, he once again turns his camera towards one such character, albeit adding something different while doing so.
“Blanka” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
This is the story of 10-year-old orphan Blanka, a street urchin in the truest sense of the term. She lives in a cardboard house on the streets, begs for money and pickpockets tourists. She may be scrawny, but she doesn’t shy away from a fight with boys in larger groups. Like most bred in poverty, Blanka too dreams of a better, or at least a bit more comfortable, life. So when she...
“Blanka” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
This is the story of 10-year-old orphan Blanka, a street urchin in the truest sense of the term. She lives in a cardboard house on the streets, begs for money and pickpockets tourists. She may be scrawny, but she doesn’t shy away from a fight with boys in larger groups. Like most bred in poverty, Blanka too dreams of a better, or at least a bit more comfortable, life. So when she...
- 3/4/2023
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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