Lingkis

In revenge for being vanquished, the mythical Bakunawa has poisoned Philippine politics, ravaging the
country with a spate of killings and corruption for the last 6 decades. A mother tells her child the story of
the moon-eating Bakunawa that plunged the world into darkness. She describes how the people took
their torches and fought back. The serpent was gone. But not for long. The Bakunawa takes different faces, under different administrations, but all are marked by the same violence and oppression. We follow the stories of two activists: Tina Montiel, a Martial Law activist whose husband was arrested in the fight against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and Lean Porquia, a current-day activist whose father was killed at the hands of the Duterte administration. The narrator says that despite the inaction of many, there remain those who continue the fight. To vanquish the darkness, we must bring forth our own light. The film takes a sharp turn as the child of the narrator answers back, and questions whether the narrative is more than just a tale with a definite end.