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Grandma Loleng

Grandma Loleng

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A young woman goes back to her province in the countryside where she gets to once again meet her Grandmother Loleng - a distant relative and a senile parol (Christmas lantern) artisan. Together, they will explore Grandma Loleng’s landscape of memories, only to unearth her innermost secrets and wartime experiences. It is about memory and forgetting, both in the context of the personal and of the national consciousness.

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Production

UP Film Institute, UP Cineastes' Studio

Language

TL

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Lui Manansala

Lui Manansala

Mariel Urbiztondo

Isabel Quesada

Renaissance Tuason

Hiroshi Ega

Jun Igarashi

NJ Nunez

Steve dela Cruz

Ryla Berico

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