Yesterday Children

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It is the time of El Niño, a season ruled by superstition and fear. The rain is long in coming, the ground has cracked up dry. The ricestalks are thin and sickly. Villagers go hungry. And a boy dies from a snakebite. The adults splinter. Some pray. Others join a cult to appease earth spirits and wait for the ada, the ricefield spirit goddess of bountiful harvest who dances naked on moonlit nights and signals the need for a virgin’s sacrifice. There are fence sitters, equally pro-church and pro-cult. A landlord’s steward enforces his master’s usury on hapless farmers. A self-righteous priest says rain must first be deserved. Two young women fight for the right to do with their bodies as they please. A bastard boy and a blind girl come of age. Yesterday, they were children.

Country:

Philippines

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

90 minutes

Year:

1999

Director:

Carlos Siguion-Reyna

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Company:

Reyna Films,

Star Cinema – ABS-CBN Film Productions

Cast:
Ara Mina

Salve

Tonton Gutierrez

Fr. Joey

Pen Medina

Terio

Ray Ventura

Encio

Jennifer Sevilla

Daling

Crew:
Carlos Siguion-Reyna

Director

Bibeth Orteza

Screenplay

Adolfo Alix Jr.

Story