Halawod
Halawod
| 17 September 2021 (USA)
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Amidst modernization and development, the indigenous people of the Tumandok of Panay region are struggling to preserve their culture and their rights to ancestral land. Belonging to the Tumandok tribe, couples Berna and Romeo Castor are being sued by NIA for expropriation. This documentary explores the sentiments of the Tümandok facing dispossession of land and the waning of cultural tradition brought on by the pretext of development.

Reviews
DubyaHan The movie is wildly uneven but lively and timely - in its own surreal way
pointyfilippa The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.
Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.