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Imago (2016)

Imago poster
Directed by
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
Genre
drama
Country
Philippines
Runtime
15 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman who works at a funeral home raises her child with Down syndrome on her own. The film follows her daily life as she balances her job and motherhood.

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What happens

Imago is a Philippine short drama film, directed by Raymund Ribay Gutierrez and released in 2016. The film stars Ruby Ruiz as Inday, a woman balancing her job at a funeral home with being as single mother to a child with Down syndrome. The film premiered in May 2016 at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, in the short films competition program. In September it was screened at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was named the winner of the award for Best International Short Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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