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| Musmos na Sumibol sa Gubat ng Digma |
Cast: Junyka Sigrid Santarin, JM Salvado, Star Orjaliza, Jun Salvado Jr., Romerico Jangad, Darril Ampongan & Haide Movero
An old man tells his grandson a coming-of-age story about Eshal, a Muslim lass in Marawi during an age-old culture of inter-familial war called 'rido'.
Like Sharon Dayoc's Women of the Weeping River, Iar Arondaing's Musmos na Sumibol sa Gubat ng Digma tackles the effects of Muslim wars between clans. The former is focused on women, the latter, in families across generations, and both, advocate peace.
Shot in Palawan, the film boasts of breathtaking imageries and dream sequences that seldom blur the line between imagination and reality, making its narrative a little disjointed. Its slow pacing also might prove to be a challenge for some, but I personally don't mind especially because of its superb cinematography.
The film is also harmonized with religious chants from the Quran as it alternates from the old man and his grandson's journey, with Eshal's survival in the forest after escaping the 'rido'. The relationship between these stories eventually go full circle and later revealed to be connected, adding further proof of the consequences and effect of old generations' feud to the next.
Musmos, however, doesn't dwell on the consequences and instead aims more attention to how peace prevails against any form of war. That message alone makes this film one of the most relevant films of our time. Without discrediting the importance of films about war on drugs and the Martial Law era, our Muslim brothers and sisters also deserve our attention.
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