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LIMBUNAN [THE BRIDAL QUARTER]
by Gutierrez Mangansakan II
Philippines 2010 Digital Betacam 83 min. OV Engl. ST
mon 15 nov 20.00 h Murnau Filmtheater <Ticketreservation>
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Limbunan Trailer from malikmata.digital on Vimeo.
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Set in 1989, the film captures the ritual motions of the women in a family as they prepare for the wedding of 16-year-old Ayesah who has been betrothed to a man she barely knows. As Maguindanaon tradition dictates, she will be kept from public view in her private quarters – limbunan – where she will be prepared, readied, and pampered for her wedding. As preparations for her union is underway, Ayesah is reunited with her childhood tutor Maguid, reawakening Ayesah’s past memory of childhood infatuation. Throughout Ayesah’s confinement her precocious and rebellious eight-year-old sister Saripa becomes her eyes to the world beyond her room. LIMBUNAN is set in the upheavals of Corazon Aquino’s presidency and the days prior to the creation of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao which hopes to bring an end to the Moro insurgency in Southern Philippines.
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