Bodjie Pascua — Actor (10)

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The Sweet Taste of Salted Bread and Undies (2018) IMDb TMDB
Pan de Salawal
director: Che Espiritu actor: Bodjie Pascua / Miel Espinoza …
other title: Pan de Salawal
A special little homeless girl travels about the Philippines curing the afflicted with her mysterious healing powers, until one day she befriends a sick old man who for some perplexing reason she is unable to cure. The unlikely pair are drawn to each other and their lives are forever changed by their unique friendship and magical journey together.

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Ili-Ili (2023) IMDb TMDB Douban
Ili-Ili
director: John Clister Santos actor: Bodjie Pascua / Ren …
other title: Little One / 리틀 원
A pregnant woman seeks guidance from her gay dads on how to raise her child, in this tearjerker.

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Metamorphosis (2019) IMDb TMDB Douban
Metamorphosis
director: Jose Enrique Tiglao actor: Jerould Aceron / Iana Bernardez …
other title: 变形记
Adam was raise like a normal boy until he bled his first menstrual period. Adam was born with two genitals, an intersex who finds himself in a painful transformation that takes him into the ambiguities of fate and desires.

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Saving Sally (2016) Douban
Saving Sally
director: 艾维德·莱恩戈恩 actor: Rhian Ramos / Enzo Marcos …
other title: 拯救萨莉
《拯救萨莉》是由艾维德·莱恩戈恩执导的一部科幻爱情电影。马蒂是一名抱负远大的漫画家,他一直暗恋着他最好的朋友—萨莉,而萨莉是个小发明家。爱情故事总会面临各种各样的困难,萨莉由于父母的过度保护,不被允许和其他人交朋友、出去玩,而且萨莉还面临着要被迫嫁给一个她不喜欢的男人。马蒂虽然对其他事物一窍不通,但他凭借画漫画的一腔热血,要将萨莉解救出来。

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A Short Film about the Indio Nacional (2006) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
A Short Film about the Indio Nacional
director: 拉亚·马丁 actor: Lemuel Galman / Mark Joshua Maclang …
other title: 国民的诞生 / A Short Film About the Indio Nacional …
This experimental Filipino movie is far from a total success, but at least its in-your-face strangeness will make it somewhat interesting for those interested in seeing films of a different sort. The start is akin to a test of endurance for cinephiles, as the camera stands still showing nothing but a couple sleeping in the floor of a hut for the first 15 minutes (I'm not making this up, I looked at my watch). Eventually, the woman, who is unable to sleep, wakes up the man at her side, telling him to tell her a story so she can sleep. He complies with a rambling monologue about the suffering of the Filipino people. The film then moves on to the better second part, where fake footage in the style of silent movies is shown. This shows life in the Philippines supposedly during the end of the colonial period through a series of vignettes. These vignettes are mildly humorous (one shows a number of children looking at an eclipse with gaping mouths). Eventually, something akin to a story comes out of the movie, as revolutionaries meet to plan rebellion from Spanish rule. It's hard to compare this movie with other films, though its fetishism of silent movies recalls the work of Guy Maddin. I found it also reminiscent of a better movie, "Moeder Dao" in which real documentary footage of colonial life in Indonesia was shown.