Kamoteng kahoy/
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Visual materialPublisher: Pasig City, Philippines: Regal Entertainment, Inc., ©2009Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 79 min.): sound, color; 4 3/4 in.Subject(s): Pesticides -- Toxicology -- Philippines -- Drama. Children -- Health and hygiene -- Philippines -- Bohol -- Drama. Poisoning -- Philippines -- Bohol -- Drama
DDC classification: AV 791.4372 Summary:
"This is based on a true story which happened in a small barrio in Bohol in 2005. Twenty one pupils died and almost a hundred were hospitalized after eating cassava cakes sold by an old woman, who might have accidentally used pesticide in her ingredients. She had been selling cassava cakes in the school, and had a loving relationship with the children. The film follows a town's journey form painful trauma towards healing through the intercutting points of view of two of the child survivors, and the old woman vendor. The two child survivors, in their own beguiling yet perceptive ways, slowly learn the issues of crime, prejudice and compassion as they develop friendship and accept their loss. The old woman, who is ostracized and condemned by the entire town, even by her own family, finally makes sense of the whole tragic thing and takes matters into her own hands. Answer don't come easy, but in the end redemption arrives for every soul in this town in the form of a final climactic event."
| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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| University of Santo Tomas-Legazpi High School Library | AV 791.4372 K15 2009 (Browse shelf) | Not for loan |
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"This is based on a true story which happened in a small barrio in Bohol in 2005. Twenty one pupils died and almost a hundred were hospitalized after eating cassava cakes sold by an old woman, who might have accidentally used pesticide in her ingredients. She had been selling cassava cakes in the school, and had a loving relationship with the children. The film follows a town's journey form painful trauma towards healing through the intercutting points of view of two of the child survivors, and the old woman vendor. The two child survivors, in their own beguiling yet perceptive ways, slowly learn the issues of crime, prejudice and compassion as they develop friendship and accept their loss. The old woman, who is ostracized and condemned by the entire town, even by her own family, finally makes sense of the whole tragic thing and takes matters into her own hands. Answer don't come easy, but in the end redemption arrives for every soul in this town in the form of a final climactic event."
In Tagalog with English subtitles.
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