Schedule

Code
225
Time
6/30  16:30 - 18:07
Theater
CGV Sopung 5
Rate
12
Event
Code
438
Time
7/2  20:00 - 21:37
Theater
Bucheon City Hall Fantastic Cube
Rate
12
Event

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Adrenaline Ride

In My Mother's Skin

Kenneth DAGATAN|Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan|2023|97min |Asian Premiere |12+

Schedule

Code
225
Time
6/30  16:30 - 18:07
Theater
CGV Sopung 5
Rate
12
Event
Code
438
Time
7/2  20:00 - 21:37
Theater
Bucheon City Hall Fantastic Cube
Rate
12
Event

Unless following Subtitle code is marked, all films will have English subtitles
º°¾ÆÀÌÄÜNotice of No English-Subtitle

Program Note

A father, suspected of stealing gold from the Japanese army, seeks help from the American military, leaving his family at home. The village chief threatens the family in pursuit of the gold, food becomes scarce, and the mother’s illness worsens. Searching for food, Tala and her brother encounter a beautiful fairy in the forbidden forest, and receive medicine to cure her mother. In My Mother’s Skin, Kenneth Dagatan’s second film, following Ma (2018), evokes memories of Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) in its story of a girl undergoing a fairy’s “test” to protect her family during wartime. However, this film is more horror than fantasy, we have no choice but to witness Tala enduring tragedy as after believing in the fairy’s benevolence. Because of the greed of adults, and the deception of fairy exploiting Tala’s desperation, as the guilty one merely being innocent, she must suffer alone, and the burden of guilt is overwhelming. (KIM Sukyun)

Director

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Kenneth DAGATAN

Kenneth Dagatan is a Manila-based writer and director. He got his professional start for his short film Sanctissima (2015) which was caught the attention of ABS-CBN, the largest studio in the Philippines, and financed his debut feature film Ma (2018). As 2019 NAFF Fantastic Film School Alumni, he will visit BIFAN once more with In My Mother’s Skin, which was selected for 2020 NAFF It Project.

Credit

Producer
Bradley LIEW, HUANG Junxiang, Bianca BALBUENA
Screenplay
Kenneth DAGATAN
Cinematographer
Russell MORTON
Editor
KAO Ming-Cheng
Sound
Eddie HUANG, CHEN Yi Ling
Music
SiNg WU
Production Design
Benjamin PADERO, Carlo TABIJE
Cast
Beauty GONZALEZ, Felicity Kyle NAPULI, James Mavie ESTRELLA