Strikingly captivating and accessible short film by someone who tends to make more experimental and raw films, even though the situation in the film is raw enough as it is. We follow Piling, a young soccer fanatic, through a slum district of Manila. No ball or cleats, but a Coke can and flip-flops are the ingredients for a virtuoso demonstration of the football art. Only at the end does it become apparent why the little ball juggler will never be a Ronaldinho. (GjZ)
Also in this combined programme
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Headless
What makes a man castrate himself? With colleague director Lav Diaz in the role of the bleeding man.
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Barong Brothers
An improvised homage to the great silent slapstick tradition in which two brothers want each other’s blood.
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Amen, a Brown Comedy
Black satire about a super-polite Filippino child who literally loses his head.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Philippines
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 2"
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
