The biggest winner of this year’s Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival, “The Baseball Player” took home awards for Best Actor, Screenplay, Editing, and inevitably, for Best Film, with the script drawing from The Moro Conflict, an insurgency in the Mindanao region of the Philippines, which has involved multiple armed groups, and has been ongoing since March 1968.
The Baseball Player is screening at Busan International Film Festival
After his family was killed by soldiers, young Khalid ended up living with his parents’ relatives in a neighboring town. Almera, and particularly her teenage son Amir, take the young boy under their wing, and try to help him with both his trauma and the intense change in his everyday life. Meanwhile, Amir, whose father was also killed by soldiers in 2000, is encouraged by his teacher, Jonas, to join the varsity team in baseball, with the young man dreaming of eventually becoming a professional player.
The Baseball Player is screening at Busan International Film Festival
After his family was killed by soldiers, young Khalid ended up living with his parents’ relatives in a neighboring town. Almera, and particularly her teenage son Amir, take the young boy under their wing, and try to help him with both his trauma and the intense change in his everyday life. Meanwhile, Amir, whose father was also killed by soldiers in 2000, is encouraged by his teacher, Jonas, to join the varsity team in baseball, with the young man dreaming of eventually becoming a professional player.
- 10/11/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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