Bulakna
Bulakna- Director
- Leonor Noivo
- Country
- Portugal, France
- Year
- 2025
- Genre
- Documentary
- Scriptwriters
- Leonor Noivo
- Production
- Terratreme Filmes, Barberousse Films
https://en.unifrance.org/movie/57076/bulakna
Storyline
‘Bulakna’ invokes the name of an ancient Filipino warrior who resisted colonial invasion. A portrait of 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.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) 2025
Alchemies
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