Gelo Gibaga
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Biography
Gelo Gibaga (b. 2004) is a writer, poet, and student-filmmaker born and raised in Pasig City, Philippines. Born to diasporic parents, he is drawn to stories that exist in liminal spaces—fragile and continually negotiated against the realities and politics of the external world. While studying in South Korea, he filmed his experimental short "Bente-Siyete," which went on to become a Sinepiyu XVIII finalist. This experience deepened his focus on learning more about the stories of those closest to him, drawn to the poetry of love, its contradictions, its tenderness, and the political world that complicates it.
Known For
A woman finds herself in purgatory. On her last day before sailing to Heaven, she questions the idea of love in a painless place.
Bente-Siyete
A high school campus journalist navigates his now strained relationship with his best friend after the unauthorized publication of his disapproved article.
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A filmmaker travels to the edge of the Bicol peninsula to revisit a coastal town’s cycle of leaving and returning through meditations on fishing and a telephone conversation with his animator-father.
Ilawod, Bulan
End of a civil war. In a riverside apartment, a woman prepares to leave her home for the first time since the war, while a soldier returns in search of his dead wife’s dress. As they disrupt one another's solitude, they realize the scraps of who the war has left them to be.