Candy Wong

Candy Wong

2026 · 19 min · History

With merely a fragment of an old poster, Candy Wong, a second generation Filipino-Chinese teenager, searches for an image of her mother, a deceased actress, across 1990s Binondo, only to gradually learn about the discarded legacy of the cinema she grew up loving.

Directed by Polly Birdie · Written by Polly Birdie

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