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Independence is a Philippin film of genre Drama with Tetchie Agbayani

Independence (2010)

Independence
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Length 1h17
Genres Drama
Rating65% 3.276243.276243.276243.276243.27624

Independencia is a 2009 Filipino drama film directed by Raya Martin. Set in the Philippines during the start of the American Occupation in the early 1900s, the film revolves around three generations of a family who flees the impending conflict in the city and tries to survive in the jungle. The grainy, black and white quality, primitive editing techniques and painted backdrops evoke the mode of filmmaking pervasive during that era. It was the first Filipino film to be screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival when it was shown at the 2009 festival.



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^ "Festival de Cannes: Independencia". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-17.

Synopsis

The film starts in a street scene. The people are in jovial spirits and are eager to celebrate the Philippines' newfound independence from Spain. The music and festivities then stop abruptly and they look up to the horizon. In few whispered words, the townspeople remark that "they are coming," referring to the American forces. Wary of the terror the soldiers might bring upon them, a mother (Tetchie Agbayani) decides to flee to the mountain jungles with her son (Sid Lucero). Deep in the jungle, they find an abandoned wooden hut and decide to settle there away from civilization and the perceived oppression that could come from the Americans. One day, the son finds a young woman (Alessandra de Rossi), exhausted and lying on the road after an American soldier rapes her. He tends to her, much to the reluctance of his mother. However, his mother eventually falls ill, then dies; he buries her in the middle of the forest. Afterwards, the woman gives birth to her child from the rape.

Actors

Tetchie Agbayani

(Mother)Alessandra De Rossi

(Stranger)Sid Lucero

(the man)Agot Isidro

(Emmie)Eula Valdez

(Elvira)
And :
Paula Peralejo
Sarah Geronimo
Eugene Domingo
Lav Diaz
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