With her first film “Big Boy”, Shireen Seno proved how much she understands children, and particularly their need to get away from the norms grown-ups impose on them. This quality is highlighted even more in “Nervous Translation” which won the Netpac award at Iffr.
“Nervous Translation” is screening at Five Flavours Festival
The film takes place in 1987, a bit after the People Power Revolution that led to the fall of President Marcos and his dictatorship, and revolves around eight-year-old Yael, a shy and distant girl. Her father is away, working in Riyadh, her mother works in a small industry that manufactures shoes, and Yael has to spend a lot of time by herself. During these times, she repeatedly listens to the cassettes her father has recorded for them in an old player that occasionally breaks the tapes, or plays cooking in her mini stove. Her uncle, who is actually her father’s twin,...
“Nervous Translation” is screening at Five Flavours Festival
The film takes place in 1987, a bit after the People Power Revolution that led to the fall of President Marcos and his dictatorship, and revolves around eight-year-old Yael, a shy and distant girl. Her father is away, working in Riyadh, her mother works in a small industry that manufactures shoes, and Yael has to spend a lot of time by herself. During these times, she repeatedly listens to the cassettes her father has recorded for them in an old player that occasionally breaks the tapes, or plays cooking in her mini stove. Her uncle, who is actually her father’s twin,...
- 11/17/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
With her first film “Big Boy”, Shireen Seno proved how much she understands children, and particularly their need to get away from the norms grown-ups impose on them. This quality is highlighted even more in “Nervous Translation” which won the Netpac award at Iffr.
“Nervous Translation” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival (Sdaff)
The film takes place in 1987, a bit after the People Power Revolution that led to the fall of President Marcos and his dictatorship, and revolves around eight-year-old Yael, a shy and distant girl. Her father is away, working in Riyadh, her mother works in a small industry that manufactures shoes, and Yael has to spend a lot of time by herself. During these times, she repeatedly listens to the cassettes her father has recorded for them in an old player that occasionally breaks the tapes, or plays cooking in her mini stove. Her uncle, who...
“Nervous Translation” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival (Sdaff)
The film takes place in 1987, a bit after the People Power Revolution that led to the fall of President Marcos and his dictatorship, and revolves around eight-year-old Yael, a shy and distant girl. Her father is away, working in Riyadh, her mother works in a small industry that manufactures shoes, and Yael has to spend a lot of time by herself. During these times, she repeatedly listens to the cassettes her father has recorded for them in an old player that occasionally breaks the tapes, or plays cooking in her mini stove. Her uncle, who...
- 11/8/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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