Set in a rural coastal village in the Philippines, Mona trains under her mother to start work as a professional mourner-for-hire. After a botched performance, Mona retreats from her mother’s fury, and seeks out a shaman to cure her inability to cry.
CREDITS
Director: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Writer: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Producer: Hannah Schierbeek
Executive Producer: Scott McQuarrie
Director of Photography: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Editor: Brandon Bunner
Production Designer: Glenn Garciano Gutierrez
Composer: Henry Hawks, Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Sound Designer: Henry Hawks
Music: Henry Hawks, Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Cast: Audrey Alquiroz, Marijoy Cacho, Bruce Venida
Guided by shamans and ancestral spirits, we traverse the line between the living and the dead, tradition and transformation, fiction and non-fiction. — Udval Altangerel