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DAUGHTERS OF THE SEA

By Martika ESCOBAR

LES CINEMAS DU MONDE - LA FABRIQUE CINEMA DE L’INSTITUT FRANÇAIS - as PROMO

Fantasy - Development 2024

Three lives intertwine like kindred beings from the same soil. Lucia, a curious tour guide who unknowingly meets her father for the first time, lives vicariously through two people - a pet shop owner who tries to keep a dying mermaid alive and a fish vendor whose long missing husband reappears.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Fantasy, Drama, Second film
- Countries
- PHILIPPINES
- Languages
- FILIPINO, SPANISH, PORTUGUESE
- Budget
- N/A
- Director(s)
- Martika ESCOBAR
- Producer(s)
- Monster JIMENEZ (THIS SIDE UP)
- Synopsis
- Lucia, a curious museum tour guide, lives through two people to find comfort in her own. First is Raquel, a fish vendor who lost her husband to the sea. Five years later, after a sighting of him in their village, she decides to look for him. The other is Delia, a pet shop owner who stumbles upon a dying mermaid at the market. She takes it home to keep it alive, and slowly we realize that they are of the same kind.
  
  For work, Lucia travels to Spain to pick up colonial maps, and it is there where she meets Danilo, a cartographer assigned to assist her. The mysteries of life coincide once again when it turns out he is the father she has never met.