Singapore International Film Festival 2018
Nervous Translation
Language
Filipino - subtitles to be advised
Cast
Jana Agoncillo, Angge Santos, Sid Lucero
Synopsis
8-year-old Yael, shy to a fault, is often left at home by her parents. Her father works abroad in Saudi Arabia and her mother is always exhausted after long hours assembling shoes at a local factory. Most of Yael’s time is spent in a fantasy world of her making, obsessing over everyday items—particularly tape recordings made by her father for her mother. When a typhoon threatens to hit Manila, Yael deals with it the only way she knows how: buying a magic pen that will solve all her problems.
Charming audiences wherever it has screened, Shireen Seno’s beautifully woven, delightfully precocious drama set in a post-Marcos Philippines celebrates all the quirks and little wisdoms in children as they try to make sense of the uncompromising, humdrum world around them.