“I can’t see what you see,” says Carlo (Gio Gahol), the co-worker who is trying to help young animator Eric (Carlo Aquino) to deal with the crisis precipitated by his uncle’s death. Amongst the things he seems to be unable to see is that Eric has no mouth. He does know that Eric doesn’t speak, but communicates through gestures, signing or the use of a writing board. This is something which he takes for granted and easily accommodates, but he has no idea how it came about.
Nobody does. Eric’s mother, Rosalinda (Dolly De Leon), who calls him and talks whilst he responds using video, knows that something went wrong with her once happy child when he was young, but no more than that. He has never been able to explain. In trying to explain it to himself, he has come to believe that he was visited by an alien which.
Nobody does. Eric’s mother, Rosalinda (Dolly De Leon), who calls him and talks whilst he responds using video, knows that something went wrong with her once happy child when he was young, but no more than that. He has never been able to explain. In trying to explain it to himself, he has come to believe that he was visited by an alien which.
- 12/21/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Winner of Best Film in the full-length feature category, as much as of the Netpac Award and Best Supporting Actress Award for Dolly de Leon at the Cinemalaya 2023, “Missing” is also the official Filipino entry for the 2024 Oscars, and an animation that manages to truly stand out due to a number of reasons.
Eric is a young man working as an animator in the Philippines. His life is fairly normal, with him retaining a cramped apartment, a friend which seems to also be something more for him, and a mother who loves him, in the face of Rosalinda. However, Eric is also not only mute, but actually has no mouth at all. When one day, his mother asks him to check on his uncle, Eric finds him dead for days, and his shock leads him again into the nightmare of his childhood years, involving an alien who repeatedly abducts him.
Eric is a young man working as an animator in the Philippines. His life is fairly normal, with him retaining a cramped apartment, a friend which seems to also be something more for him, and a mother who loves him, in the face of Rosalinda. However, Eric is also not only mute, but actually has no mouth at all. When one day, his mother asks him to check on his uncle, Eric finds him dead for days, and his shock leads him again into the nightmare of his childhood years, involving an alien who repeatedly abducts him.
- 12/2/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
by Juan Carlos Ojano
Carlo Aquino and Dolly de Leon.
Carl Joseph Papa's Oscar submission The Missing (original title: Iti Mapukpukaw) centers on a mouthless young man whose life is rocked when a familiar alien returns to his life. In telling this deeply personal story using animation, Papa examines the long-term effects of childhood trauma on people and how far kindness could go in helping them in reclaiming their voice. The Missing is the Philippines' official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, becoming the country's first animated feature film to represent the country (out of 33 submissions). Out of the eight countries that submitted for the category's first competitive year in 1956, only the Philippines is yet to be nominated.
In this in-depth discussion, writer-director Carl Joseph Papa and actor Gio Gahol tackle the taboo topic of childhood sexual abuse in the country, pulling off the...
Carlo Aquino and Dolly de Leon.
Carl Joseph Papa's Oscar submission The Missing (original title: Iti Mapukpukaw) centers on a mouthless young man whose life is rocked when a familiar alien returns to his life. In telling this deeply personal story using animation, Papa examines the long-term effects of childhood trauma on people and how far kindness could go in helping them in reclaiming their voice. The Missing is the Philippines' official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, becoming the country's first animated feature film to represent the country (out of 33 submissions). Out of the eight countries that submitted for the category's first competitive year in 1956, only the Philippines is yet to be nominated.
In this in-depth discussion, writer-director Carl Joseph Papa and actor Gio Gahol tackle the taboo topic of childhood sexual abuse in the country, pulling off the...
- 11/17/2023
- by Juan Carlos Ojano
- FilmExperience
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 10/17/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 10/16/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
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