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Grandma Loleng

Che Tagyamon · Philippines · Drama / Fantasy / Animation · 8 min · 9.5K views

Directed by Che Tagyamon · Starring Lui Manansala, Mariel Urbiztondo, Inna Tuason, Isabel Quesada · 2016

Returning to her rural province, a young woman reconnects with her senile great-aunt, a Christmas-lantern maker, and travels through the old woman's landscape of memories toward long-hidden wartime secrets.

A delicate animated memory piece where personal forgetting mirrors a nation's buried history.

A young woman goes back to her province in the countryside where she gets to once again meet her Grandmother Loleng - a distant relative and a senile parol (Christmas lantern) artisan. Together, they will explore Grandma

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