Director: Auraeus Solito | Philippines | Palawonon with English subtitles | 2010

Punay (Alessandra de Rossi) is stricken with an unknown disease that leaves her covered in wounds and unable to walk. Her dedicated brother Angkarang (Rodrigo Santikan) transports her on a hammock, forever on the lookout for a cure, or someone to help them. Visually stunning, Busong contrasts its gorgeous high definition visuals with a tale of tradition threatened, and its reverence for the physical beauty of the landscape only deepens the sense of loss for a way of life. The first feature ever made in the Palawan language, Busong suggests the direction First Peoples cinema is headed, with a narrative that is equal parts reality and myth, past and future, and where the most modern of technology is in service to traditonal storytelling.

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