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'In a Davao slum, Rabat and Allen mostly play and spend their time near a polluted ditch all day. Calm images set the main atmosphere of this film. Employing the liquidity of digital camerawork, it examines the possibilities of image and sound in editing through dialogues, noises and ambient sound. Although it introduces these two mature children, the main character of the film is Punta Dumalog's polluted ditch. The youth of the town share their hearts with the contaminated water together. The dirty ditch is a strange place saturated with political implications and sexuality. The place is a playground for children avoiding hot weather and for playing with insects, but to the youth it is a place of externalized sexual desire.' Jeonju International Film Festival

'Cinema is seen by some as a continuing discussion – academic or not – that reflects important and relevant issues at a certain historical point. This discourse tends to explore various subjects of human life. The films I make are my response and participation to this world of discourse. Cinema on the other hand is a means of communication. And for me one of the important aspects of cinema is to offer new and alternative sensations to those senses of ours that have been desensitized by other media. We want to laugh, cry, fall in love, but the human construct is more than these emotions and sometimes we crave for more than this – a unique human experience that caters to senses forgotten.' Sherad Anthony Sanchez

Ages 18+