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BIRD EYES!

ANG PAGBABALIK NG KWAGO

Female director - Completed 2021

Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired screenwriter, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Female director, First film, Comedy
- Countries
- PHILIPPINES
- Languages
- TAGALOG, ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 99 mn
- Synopsis
- Leonor Reyes was the only Filipino woman who wrote action films in the ‘80s. Now, 72 years old, she lives in a cluttered apartment with her son, Rudie, who has plans of migrating to join his boyfriend. After a heated argument with Rudie, and a visit from her dead son, Ronwaldo, Leonor eyes an ad in the newspaper: Isapelikula - turn your words into movies —and decides to write again. About to complete her long unfinished script, a television falls on Leonor’s head, causing her to fall into a coma. While confined in the hospital, she is transported into the film that is playing on the television. Leonor wakes up inside the world of a classic macho 1980s Filipino action flick, featuring her dead son Ronwaldo, whose sudden disappearance propels her to become the self-sacrificing hero of the film. At this point, Leonor’s body vanishes into thin air, and the lines between her action fantasy and unforgiving reality are blurred.