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Daughters of the Three Tailed Banner

Mga Bai Nu Sambolayang Mawalaw

Philippines | 2016, 77 min.

International Premiere

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Festival edition: 2016

Section: International Competition

Dialogue language: Tagalog / Maguindanaon / Cebuano

Genre: drama

Description:

The last man in the family dies. The women are in despair. To salvage their future, the matriarch Kadiguia decides to look for a suitable husband for the eligible Tonina. Meanwhile, many miles away in the city, her other daughter Aida secretly works in a hotel after falling victim to an illegal recruiter. She hides this fact from her family who believes that she is in faraway Kuwait working as a nanny.
A film about women where the men have been taken from them, either through war, circumstance or their own choice. Still, everything must be done to ensure the family's survival. The family line must continue, no matter what.

Director(-s): Gutierrez Mangansakan II

Film director, screenwriter and educator from the Philippines. Born in 1976, he grew up in Maguindanao province in the southern Philippines. His debut feature "Bridal Quarter" took part in the Venice festival in 2010. "Daughters of the Three Tailed Banner" is his latest film.

Director's filmography

2016 Mga Bai Nu Sambolayang Mawalaw / Daughters of the Three Tailed Banner
2012 Qiyamah / The Reckoning
2012 The Obscured Histories and Silent Longings of Daguluan's Children
2011 Cartas de la Soledad / Letters of Solitude
2010 Limbunan / Bridal Quarter

Cast & Crew

Screenwriter: Gutierrez Mangansakan II

Producer: Gutierrez Mangansakan II, Jedd Dimaguina, Fe Ging Ging Hyde, Liryc Paolo dela Cruz, Evelyn Vargas-Knaebel, Jameel Singh, Mylene Manansala-Candao

Editor: David Ignacio

DOP: McRobert Nacario

Music: Bryan Dimaguina, Dwight Galang

Art director: Paramata Endawan

Cast: Fe Ging Ging Hyde, Haidie Sangkad, Evelyn Vargas-Knaebel, Maria Victoria Beltran, Chona Ongkingco, Sue Prado, Sahara Ali

Contact:

Reckless Natarajan Pictures (Production Company)

Moises Charles Hollite

natarajanbeckhampictures@gmail.com

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