Buog

Rommel ‘Milo’ Tolentino | Philippines | 2007 | 33' |

| IFFR 2007

Not a children’s film. Two little boys are playing a game in which the difference between life and death is not always clear. The film maker simply and inventively uses the classic horror film idiom of making a film that is both more serious and more playful than this genre.

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