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WOMEN OF THE WEEPING RIVER

By Sheron DAYOC

DISSIDENZ FILMS - as SALES All rights, World excluding the Philippines / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World, FRANCE

Drama - Completed 2016

A story of blood feud where women try to undo the cycle of violence while men seek vengeance.

Festivals
& Awards

Gawad Urian Awards 2017

Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography and Best Editing

Montréal World FF 2017

Int'l Film Fest. Of india, Goa 2017

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Drama, Social issues
- Countries
- PHILIPPINES, FRANCE
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Sheron DAYOC
- Cast
- Laila Putli P. ULAO, Sharifa Pearlsia P. ALI-DANS, Taha G. DARANDA
- Producer(s)
- Sheron DAYOC (Southern Lantern Studios), Karim AITOUNA (Haut les Mains)
- Synopsis
- Satra has just become a widow, a result of an escalating blood feud stretching back generations. Fueled by grief, she is in agreement with her family that revenge is justified. But then she meets a woman from the opposite side of the feud, who has lost her son, but is also about to lose her entire family.
  
  The women reach deep into themselves in hopes to undo the age-old rivalry. Their fathers, husbands and sons perish, and they remain, they bear the pain, unable to forgive, with their lives moving on, forever fixed on what remains only fragile peace among paid that will always stay too fresh for forgiveness.
  
  Set in the Southern Philippines, director Sheron Dayoc’s film incisively tackles the seemingly untouchable struggles faced by armed clan conflicts in Mindanao, from the perspectives of the women caught in the middle. The beautiful landscape and topography of Zamboanga (where the film was shot) captures the inexplicable calm between storms that define the delicate situation of Mindanao.