Director: Khavn
Country: Philippines
Year: 2018
Running Time: 120 minutes
Producer: Edong Canlas, Khavn, Achinette Villamor
Starring: Justine Samson, Pio Del Rio, Warren Tuaño
Screenplay: Jerry Gracio, Khavn, Achinette Villamor
Cinematographer: Albert Banzon
Editor: Carlo Francisco Manatad
Music: Khavn
Sound: Stephen Lopez
Production Design: Zeus Bascon, Timmy Harn, Marija Vicente
Synopsis:
Balangiga, 1901. Eight-year-old Kulas and his grandfather Apoy Buroy flee town on the eve of the massacre, bringing with them a carabao, a chicken, and various provisions. Though they stick to the outskirts to avoid the Americans wreaking vengeance on the town, they find carnage wherever they go, eventually discovering a toddler screaming beside the bodies of his dead parents. Kulas ignores his grandfather's refusal to take the child with them and names him Bola.
Misfortune after misfortune befall the traveling group. Their chicken and their carabao dies. Kulas’ grandfather succumbs to a snake bite. Later Bola grows weak from disease and malnutrition and dies. Kulas continues his journey weaker, sadder, less interested in making it out of town alive. But as he stood waiting for death to come take him too, he sees their dead carabao, Melchora, flying. He runs after it. Rain begins to fall. Kulas drinks, dancing in joy as he plunges after Melchora who flies across the sky like a star, leading him deeper and deeper into the forest.