Julius Lumiqued

A lifestyle photographer, a student activist, and a relationship that developed amidst contrasting ideals and principles.

At her mother's request, Mina returns to her hometown in Benguet to visit her grandmother. Along the way, she is confronted by a landscape transformed by time and development, stirring memories of family, childhood, and the place she once called home. As her journey unfolds, Mina begins to reconnect with the stories, traditions, and quiet presence of the land, reflecting on what remains even as people and places change

An Igorot elderly woman, while cooking lunch on a Sunday, suddenly hears distant explosions triggering her to go out of her home.

A film told from Baguio-born filmmaker Lynette Carantes-Bibal’s perspective as a woman of the Cordilleras and as daughter of Ibaloy artist, historian and former public servant Geoffrey M. Carantes. Pëngsasan touches on memory and modernity, shattering the illusion of time, of the border between the past and the present.

Following the Japanese invasion in the 1940s, Awiyao comes home to his wife Lumnay to ask her to attend the wedding dance, an invitation that stirs memories of joy, pain, and emptiness. It is an invitation to celebrate his new wedding dance.