Bulakna

Bulakna invokes the name of an ancient Filipino warrior who resisted colonial invasion. Portraying the strength and inequality, the film follows Filipino women who nowadays face a new form of colonisation: forced migration for work. Thousands of Filipino women work as domestic servants and caregivers in foreign countries, supporting other people’s economies, and leaving their own families behind in their homeland. Trapped in a global logic that turns care into a bargaining chip, they live divided between sustenance and longing, between duty and absence.