Bulakna

90 Min.

Language: OmeU | Original language: Tagalog, English

Director: Leonor Noivo

BULAKNA invokes the name of an ancient Filipino warrior who resisted colonial invasion. Portraying the strength and inequality, the film follows Filipino women who nowadays face a new form of colonization: forced migration for work. Domestic workers in foreign countries, thousands of Filipino women support other people’s economies, working as caregivers and leaving their own families behind in their homeland. Trapped in a global logic that turns care into a bargaining chip, they live divided between sustenance and longing, between duty and absence.

Q&A with the director