A familiar tale about learning to embrace life again is revitalized by cultural specificity in Islands, Martin Edralin’s first film.
Vying in SXSW’s narrative feature competition this year, the bilingual drama opens with a Filipino-Canadian family of three kneeling in church in front of a row of red votive candles.
Middle-aged Joshua (Rogelio Balagtas), a bachelor on the verge of his 50th birthday, looks bored as his mother, Alma (Vangie Alcasid), and his father, Reynaldo (Esteban Comilang), pray on either side of him.
As in the rest of his life, Joshua is content enough to look like he belongs, but anyone who cares enough to really see him would know he doesn’t feel at home anywhere.
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