ILO-ILO, Cannes Film Festival Camera d’Or winning film continued its festival-winning streak. This time, the film swept three major awards at the 10th Jameson CineFest Miskolc International Festival in Hungary, and captured the Best Actor award at the 9th Eurasia Film Festival in Kazakhstan. With Director Chen in attendance, Ilo Ilo bagged the Grand Jury prize, the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) prize and the International Ecumenical Jury prize at the Jameson CineFest, Hungary’s leading film festival. With its haul of wins, Ilo Ilo became the festival’s most awarded film. Set in Singapore, ILO ILO chronicles the relationship between a family of three and their newly arrived Filipino maid, Teresa, who has come like many other Filipino women in search of a better life. The entire family needs to adapt to the presence of this stranger, which further threatens their already strained relationship. Still, Teresa and Jiale, the young and troublesome boy she cares for, soon form a bond. Their unique connection continues to develop and soon she becomes an unspoken part of the family. But this is 1997 and the Asian Financial Crisis is starting to be felt in all the region…
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:05:19 +0000
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