Sa Gabing Tanging Liwanag ay Paniniwala

(Belief as the Light in Darkness)

The continuous disappearance of townsmen ignited the town captain to search the woods in order to find out who is behind the disappearances and where are the people being brought to. Upon his search, the town captain and his son came across a mysterious answer.

Directed by Francis Guillermo
RATING: PG
GENRE: Horror Fantasy

DIRECTORS’ PROFILE

On the 21st of September of 1996, a peculiar child was born with primary complex and an urge to never remain at one point. Despite growing up as if the world ran out of air to give, this child never remained still and never saw the world stop. Until one day, he met the cinemas. Inside where the temperature was different and the surrounding was meant to drown you in darkness, the whole world stopped for three hours as he slowly swims into a new, unidentified, and unfamiliar world. Today he lives in Quezon City, Philippines and has learned to create worlds, bend time, and create fictions to share (and even to keep to his own), within the countless corners of cinema. Within arm’s reach of the current generation and the next generation of Filipino filmmakers, Francis Guillermo aims to become a prominent filmmaker of his own.

DIRECTORS’ STATEMENT

In a world where truth can be overshadowed by darkness, who do you believe in? What would you believe in? Inspired by the Philippine mythological folklore of Tambal, a creature who copies an individual while it leads its victim deep into the woods, this film shows how the identity of Filipinos were lost through a series of fake information as they continuously revolve around the regime of the Marcoses. The continuous disappearance of people and the surrounding mystery to why and how they disappear has created this monster, this fear, who continuously takes victims during the darkest days of this country. If we burn the tree of the Marcoses down, are we sure that no other tree would stand the same? Or perhaps we haven’t burned down the tree to its roots.