10th edtion CIFF – 10-14 April 2024
FILMS 2019: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2018: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2017: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2016: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2015: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T – Z | Feature Film | Short Film
SCENES OF SENSES_Sensitive, sparkling film that captures the confusing and magical moments alike in the life of a child who, while preferring to be by herself, deep down also longs to be heard. The events of 1987 in the Philippines play a role in the background, but shy Yael is more concerned with her absent father, her uncle who is a rock star and a pen with special powers.
Eight-year-old Yael is shy and not always at ease. She prefers writing letters to performing dances for her applauding Filipino family. She listens endlessly to the cassette tapes recorded by her father, who is spending years away from home working in Riyadh. Her uncle, a rock star with the band The Futures, acts as something of a surrogate father. When she hears an advertisement for a pen that will give her a ‘wonderful life’, she decides to spend all her savings on this miracle pen.
Shireen Seno gives a voice to this quiet little girl in her perceptive, playful film full of jump cuts, sensitive sound design and ’80s music – and even the odd surrealist intermezzo.
The sparkling Nervous Translation is set in 1987, not long after the People Power Revolution that led to the fall of president Marcos. Seno depicts this precarious time purely through Yael’s childish eyes, which understandably reduce the threats to manageable proportions.
Place: The Cinemas 4
Date: 12 April 2018
Time: 13:15
Duration: 1:09
Place: The Cinemas 3
Date: 14 April 2018
Time: 19:30
Duration: 1:09
Place: The Cinemas 5
Date: 15 April 2018
Time: 13:15
Duration: 1:09
Year in
Festival
2018
Director
Shireen SENO
Camera
Albert Banzon
Jippy Pascua
Dennese Victoria
Cast
Jana Agoncillo
Angge Santor
Sid Lucero
Country
Philippines
Editor
John Torres
Shireen Seno
Language
Length
Music
Itos Ledesma
Producer
John Torres
Ronald Arguelles
Production Company
Production Design
Leeroy New
Sales
Los Otros Films
Scenario
Shireen Seno
Sound Design
Mikko Quizon
Year of Production
2018