Ruya

While weaving a t’nalak, Sanay, a dreamweaver, suffers from a heart attack. After Sanay goes into a coma, her daughter, Ruya, must finish her mother’s next design to make ends meet. To do this, she needs to overcome the two obstacles standing between her and dreaming: her anxiety and insomnia. Fraught with disruptive nightmares, Ruya fights to stay asleep long enough to dream (and dream well). It isn’t until she works through her crippling self-limiting beliefs that she’s finally able to get in touch with who she thinks is her mother in the dream. It turns out to be Fu Dalu–the Spirit of abaca who communicates designs to the T’boli women.

Film Content Advisory: Nightmare Sequence

Credits
Writer: Nicole Mairose Dizon
Producer: Nicole Mairose Dizon
Executive Producer: Nicole Mairose Dizon
Director of Photography: Mike Maliwanag
Editor: Calvin Chin
Production Designer: Jay Dizon
Composer: Jaimie Pangan
Sound Designer: Alex Bologna
Music: Jaimie Pangan

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Kuwentuhan Lives

Tall tales of the Philippine diaspora from the homeland and abroad. Navigating truths and the absurd.