Maria Riya Palma Miranda

A short film from Polytechnic University of the Philippines - Sta. Mesa.

Badi, suffering from lung cancer, and Thelma have an only child—a pig named Baby. Due to the need for medication, they reluctantly sell their beloved pig-child.

An unlikely friendship forms when a fifteen-year-old graphic designer helps his stubborn grandmother digitally color her old black-and-white photos. But as they bicker and bond through each photo, they soon realize that memories are anything, but black-and-white.

Galo is a university student who writes on his journal the string of unsettling and mysterious experiences he has while living with his grandmother, Mama Susan.

After years of imprisonment in the Middle East for a crime he did not commit, Lino finally returns to his small town. He hopes to relive his lost dreams and bring back everything that was taken away from him. With his red suitcase filled with misery and uncertainty, he reunites with his past. Revisiting what he left behind, he discovers that life went on without him. As he tries to fill the emptiness, he realizes that he is now the void.

Mary has always been a loving mother. When left alone to care for her mother-in-law and 10-year old son, the lines between a caregiver and a mother are blurred. In their home, Mary washes their clothes, hangs them, and folds them. Nanay Ditas, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, struggles with her memory lapses, mood changes, and personality shifts. Mary tries to find a path towards healing through the sacredness of doing laundry.