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Kamoteng Kahoy (2009)

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Starring: Marissa Sanchez, Robert "Buboy" Villar
Directed by: Mario J. De Los Reyes
Genre: Drama
Language: Filipino
Rating: Unrated

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Synopsis
This is based on a true story that happened in a small barrio in Bohol in 2005. Twenty-seven pupils died and almost a hundred were hospitalized after eating cassava cakes sold by Lola Idang (played by Gloria Romero), who might have accidentally used pesticide in her ingredients. She has been selling cassava cakes in that school, and has a loving relationship with the children.

The film follows a town's journey from painful trauma towards healing through the intercutting points of view of the two child survivors, and the old woman vendor. The two child survivors, in their own beguiling yet perceptive ways, slowly learn the issues of crime, prejudice, and compassion as they develop friendship and accept their loss. The old woman, who is ostracized and condemned by the entire town, even by her own family, finally makes senses of the whole tragic thing and takes matters into her own hands.

Answers don't come easy, but in the end, redemption arrives for every soul in the town in the form of a final climatic event.